My sons wish to set up their own accounts - Will they lose the apps they purchased under my account?

My sons wish to set up their own accounts - Will they lose access to the apps they purchased under my account? Is there anyway to transfer the apps to their accounts?

You can't. Apps and content are tied permanently to the iTunes Store account through which they were purchased. Her MBA will need to be authorized to your iTunes Store account and she'll need that account information to be able to update the apps and re-download content, or they'll need to be repurchased through her iTunes Store account.
Regards.

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Welcome to the Apple community.
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I have my kids using iTunes via thier ipods etc through my own account and this hase been the case for some time?
This has started to cause issues lately with imessaging and facetime, as there seems to be a limit on email addresses that can be associated with one account?
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@survivethestorm.
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