My app won't update after I changed my AppleId

I recently had to change my appleId because I weren't able to connect to iCloud. So I did that, but I have a major issue since then. When I try to update my Apps, iTunes consider that I'm not the owner, and suggests me to buy the app again.

Yeah, unfortunately individual purchases are linked to one and only one Apple ID (the one you purchased them with). As of right now, you cannot combine Apple IDs, or move purchases over from one to another. To update apps purchased on another Apple ID, you'll have to sign out of your current account, then sign back in to the old account, do the updates, then sign out and back into the new one again. PITA but it woks if you're desperate.
There are rumors and some hints that Apple is working to allow the merging of iTunes Store Apple ID accounts (the CEO Tim Cook has said he's aware it's an issue), but nothing definitive yet and no one knows when. In some cases you can call Apple Support and have them move individual purchases over from one account to another, though this seems to be taken on a case by case basis, sometimes they will, sometimes they won't.

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