Merging two Apple ID's together

Hi, I have an iPad and iPhone which are under the same Apple ID however i bought an iMac and for some reason this has a different apple ID, are we able to merge our accounts together so every device syncs with each other?

Frequently asked questions about Apple ID
Question: I have multiple Apple IDs. Is there a way for me to merge them into a single Apple ID?
Answer: Apple IDs cannot be merged. You should use your preferred Apple ID from now on, but you can still access your purchased items such as music, movies, or software using your other Apple IDs.

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  • HT204053 Can you merge two Apple IDs into one?  It was a common issue caused by the iPhone 4 and has been corrected, but transferring purchases in iTunes is a pain with two IDs.

    For a brief time when iPhone 4, iOS 4 came out, many of us ended up with two Apple IDs.  I want to know if anyone can please provide me with simple step-by-step instructions on merging two Apple IDs into one?  It would make transferring purchases on iTunes much easier and reliable.  I realize i desperately need an iOS update, but i had no laptop for over two years!  I'm posting a cry for help on that in another community.  Thank you all.

    No,
    Apple IDs cannot be merged. You should use your preferred Apple ID from now on, but you can still access your purchased items such as music, movies, or software using your other Apple IDs.

  • Can i merge two Apple ID's?

    can i merge two Apple ID's?
    I have one with me.com and one neutral one.
    would love to have just the me.com Apple ID.
    How do I merge??

    You can't merge accounts, nor transfer content from one account to another account - content will remain tied to the account that bought/downloaded it.

  • How to merge two Apple accounts by migration

    Hello to you all
    My question relates about merging two apple accounts.
    Having two accounts is an issue (for instance when you start setting up Family sharing, or trying to get phone calls on your Mac)
    As we know, merging two accounts is alas (still ?) not possible.
    But it should be possible to address the issue it my migrating data.
    As many people, I have two accounts:
    Account A: [email protected], with all my purchases (iTunes, apps, machines)
    Account B: [email protected], with my calendar, contacts, bookmarks, photos...
    The best possible option seems to keep account A:
    - Transfer the data from B to A
    - Possibly transferring the [email protected] address into A
    - Close B
    About the data transfer:
    - Transferring iCloud documents is easy (using the Finder)
    - Transferring contacts, events bookmarks is also easy as they can be exported (ex .VCF or html)
    - Transferring Notes can be done by moving the notes from the iCloud list to the On my Mac List
    - Transferring Passwords and Photostreams is difficult (No Export solution for KeyChains, No way to transfer ownership of a photo stream)
    - I do not know yet about transferring the iCloud email address [email protected] into the [email protected]
    So my questions are:
    1) Do you have any idea about transferring Passwords in KeyChain from one iCloud account to another ?
    2) Do you have any idea about transferring ownership of a photo stream to one iCloud account to another ?
    3) Do you have any idea about the email address transfer
    4) Do you have any other way to do this ?
    Thanks for your attention
    Kind regards

    The easiest thing to do would be to use an iOS device, such as your iPhone to migrate the data from one account to the other.  You can go to Settings>iCloud on your phone, sign out of account B, choose Keep on My iPhone and provide your password when prompted, then sign back in using ID A to create a new iCloud account and choose Merge when prompted to upload the data.  This will not migrate notes, which as you said, can be dragged and dropped between accounts on your Mac. 
    This will also not move your existing iCloud email account.  You cannot move an iCloud email account to a new iCloud account.  You would either have to switch to the new @icloud.com email account that goes with your new iCloud account, or continue to use the existing email account as a "secondary account"  To do this, you would go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud on your iOS devices (and System Preferences>Internet Accounts>iCloud on your Mac), sign back into account B and turn on Mail.  Just be aware that, at least on an iOS device, this would not be push email as push is only supported in the primary iCloud account.
    Photo stream cannot be moved between accounts either, not can it be enabled in a secondary account.  If you want to keep your photo stream photos you'll have to either save them to your device, or add them to a shared album before signing out of the existing account (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99).  Another option would be to import them to your iPhoto events, then add them back to your new photo stream using iPhoto when you sign into the new iCloud account on your Mac.
    For iCloud keychain, I believe you can turn it off iCloud keychain and you will be given an option to keep a copy of any saved passwords and credit card information on your device.  Then set up iCloud keychain again once you are signed into your new iCloud account.

  • Is there a way to merge two apple id's into one?

    Is there a way to merge two apple id's into one?

    DBO501 wrote:
    Is there a way to merge two apple id's into one?
    This is not possible...
    From Here   http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37
    I have multiple Apple IDs. Is there a way for me to merge them into a single Apple ID?
    Apple IDs cannot be merged. You should use your preferred Apple ID from now on, but you can still access your purchased items such as music, movies, or software using your other Apple IDs.

  • HT204053 how can I merge two Apple-IDs?

    how can I merge two Apple-IDs?

    The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
    Apple will not merge two Apple IDs, nor will Apple transfer content from one ID to another.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37

  • Can't merge two apple IDs and can't download purchases from both onto the same iMac

    Some time ago I discovered that I had inadvertently created two apple IDs. One that I had used many years ago as a student and then the other I created when I bought my first iPhone. These days I only use the newer account I created however I still own a few songs which were purchased on the older account back when I was a student. SO recently I logged into the older account to get those old songs that I'd purchased and download them onto my work iMac - GREAT! ...Right up until I wanted to now download some newer songs I'd recently purchased directly onto my iPhone using the new account - UH-OH! NOPE! I'm not allowed to download those songs for 90 days! Are you frickin kidding me?! They're both MY accounts! They're both linked to me - use the same details, same address, same credit card, same everything else!!! But apple won't let me download songs that I now own for 3 months onto my iMac because I happen to have two accounts. This is insanely ridiculous! I would happilly merge the two accounts if it was possible but of course there is no way to do this either. I understand that the intention is to stop people from sharing songs by linking to a friends apple ID and downloading their songs, however I am in no way trying to do this. I just want to have access to all the songs that I own on all my machines. I want to listen to songs that I have legitimately purchased on my work machine as well as on my iPhone, my iPad and my home iMac. Surely this is not too much to ask? C'mon apple!! Can't you find a way to either link/merge my two accounts or to verify that they both belong to the same person so I don't run into this problem? I don't think I should have to wait 3 months to get access to songs I have purchased!

    1. Click here and ask the iTunes Store staff for assistance.
    2. Use the Transfer Purchases function to import them from the iOS devices, and manually move the iTunes libraries between the computers.
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  • HT5625 How do you merge two Apple IDs into one account?

    I have two Apple IDs (it's a long story) with mixed content.  I'd like to merge the accounts into one account, in order to synchronize my apple products.  How do I do it?

    1. Click here and ask the iTunes Store staff if they'll do it. They probably won't.
    2. Because Apple generally doesn't permit that.
    3. Because the content remains associated with your Apple ID when you share it with other people.
    (102945)

  • Can i merge two apple ids into one

    i have two apple IDs that i need to merge.  money is both accouts, paid apps on both accounts.
    What are my options?
    thanks

    http://appletoolbox.com/2012/10/can-i-merge-two-or-more-apple-ids-using-multiple -apple-ids/
     Cheers, Tom

  • Can you merge two apple ids

    I have two Apple id's. Not sure why. but one is for my iPod that was set up a long time ago and what I use for iTunes. The is for my iPhone. I want to use the itunes cloud storage so i can listen to my music on my iPhone but i'm guessing that won't work if you have two id's. Of couse they'd need to match. Can you merge two id's? I would like to simplify anyway and just have one.
    Thanks.

    No.
    (106976)

  • HT204053 Can I merge two Apple ID accounts

    I have two Apple IDs, just cos I didn't really understand what I was doing when I set the first one up years ago and now I have two. Some purchases are on one and some are on the other. It also gets confusing with iCloud. Is it possible to merge the two accounts without losing any of the purchases or saved data?

    It isn't possible to merge them at all.
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  • HT204053 Can I merge two apple IDs?

    Problem: My email account was hacked so I had to get a new email and so I thought I need to create a new apple id... so now I have two apple ids; is there any way that I can merge the two or transfer the purchases from one to the other?

    You can't do this on your own; if one Apple ID is completely inaccessible, click here and request assistance.
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  • How to merge two apple id's?

    I have two apple ID's and would like to merge them. What do I need to do?

    An Apple ID is just a kind of "username", not good for anything unless you associate the ID with an itunes account and/or an icloud account.  Merging two icloud accounts can be problematic, I would think, since data from two different contexts need to be merged. 
    So, to the OP, I must ask, in what way are you asking about merging two IDs?  I can see asking about merging two itunes store accounts (but you can't, probably due to licensing agreements) or two icloud accounts (this would have to be carefully defined).  For example, an icloud account limits you to the number of alias email adresses.  If two accounts have a max number of aliases and they are all different (they'd have to be), how is this to be handled?

  • Merge two Apple-Accounts

    Hi,
    my daughter uses an iPhone and iTunes. I use an iPod (an iPad) and iTunes. We use iTunes with different Apple-IDs. Now, she leaves the apple-world :-(  and I use the iPhone. How can I merge the two Apple-accounts?
    Thanks for the answers.
    Olaf

    It's not possible.

  • How two merge two apple accounts

    I have two apple id's. One from my mobile me and one from the i-cloud. I want to merge tehm into one. Is this possible and if so how does this work?

    It's not possible.

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