My wife and each have an apple ID. I have purchased music on both accounts. Can I merge both accounts?

My wife and I both have apple IDs. We have both purchased songs under both IDs. Can we merge both accounts in itunes?

Unfortunately you can't.

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I appear to have two separate Apple IDs and have purchased music under both. Is there any way to consolidate the accounts into one?

I appear to have two separate Apple IDs and to have purchased music under both of them (one is my husband's email account, the other is mine). Is there a way to consolidate them, or is it possible to make the purchases made under two separte IDs downloadable on the same device(s)?

Not at this time. There is no way to merge two Apple IDs or be signed into the iTunes Store with more than one Apple ID at a time on an iOS device. However, you can USB sync the music to more than one device at a time, no problem. As long as all the music is on the same computer.

Why do we not receive 5 gb of free cloud storage space for the multiple Apple devices my wife and I have purchased?

Why do we not receive 5 gb of free cloud storage space for the multiple Apple devices my wife and I have purchased? Seems only fair.

logical. fair. I can understand the confusion in policy as another fine cloud service - DropBox - has a different model for increases in free storage amounts for one account = evangelism. As many policies as there are services probably.
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HT5622 My wife and I share an Apple ID when we purchase all our devises. If we use the Icloud would all our information be mixed together in the cloud.

My wife and I share an Apple ID when we purchase all our devises. If we use the Icloud would all our information be mixed together in the cloud.

mende1 wrote:
If both of you turn on the same iCloud services in your devices, your information will get mixed and will appear in all your devices.
To prevent this, the only thing you can do is to create another Apple ID for your wife or you, so you will have your information separated. Anothe roption is to allow your wife or you to use iCloud, and the other one should not use iCloud, so in this case the information won't get mixed
Nice Mende, I didn't even think of that.

HT201363 Good evening ... I have an account in appel and I have purchased a card But I can not buy applications because the applications you want to push it under the answers to security questions and I forgot the answers to these questions How can I c

Good evening ...
I have an account in appel and I have purchased a card
But I can not buy applications because the applications you want to push it under the answers to security questions and I forgot the answers to these questions
How can I change my answers to security questions??

Hello, yazanalmasri0.
If you need to reset your security questions and have a rescue email attached to your Apple ID, this article will help you with this issue.
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
If you are still unable to reset your security questions or do not have a rescue email associated with your account, you will need to reach out to our account security team.
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
Cheers,
Jason H.

I have multiple devices (imacs, lap tops and ipads) all connected to a NAS server. Can I create a user for myself and one for my wife, and each have our own apple ID, and Itunes accounts, but all share the same media on NAS drives?

I have multiple devices (iMacs, Lap tops, Ipads) all connected to a Nas Drive. Can I create a user for myself and one for my wife and we each have our own apple ID's, Itunes etc, but share the same data on the hard drives? So when she logs in, and sync's her ipads, they will sync with her stuff and when I do the same under my user account, on the same device, my ipads will sync with my stuff?

You can share the same Apple ID for purchasng form the iTunes and app stores without any problems, but you should all used separate iCloud accounts with separate Apple IDs. (You are not required to use the same ID for iCloud and other services as you do for the iTunes store.) This will prevent you from ending up with merged data. You should also use separate Apple IDs for iMessage and FaceTime or you will end up getting each other's text messages and FaceTime calls.
This article may be of interest: http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-icloud-tips-sharing-an-apple-id-with-you r-family/, as well as this video: http://macmost.com/setting-up-multiple-ios-devices-for-messages-and-facetime.htm l.

My dad has a LOT of music on his iTunes account. Is there a way I can upload some of his music into my iPhone? Same goes for my fiancé. He just got an iPhone and I have some music on my account. Instead of making double purchases on music can he use mine?

I have an iPhone 5s. Just updated from my 5. My husband just got an iPhone. I purchased music over the last year.
He was told to create his own account we don't get each others messages. But how can he upload music I already purchased?
Also my dads got over a thousand songs on his iTunes account. Is there a way to share? I get the whole stealing music stuff but this is purchased music I'm talking about. He paid for albums of music. Mine are random songs and a few albums.
And last. I have CDs I purchased. How do I put them onto my iTunes account. My dad set it up for me two years ago (3 phones ago) n I'm not
Sure how to do this. My original computer n then my laptop both crashed so I don't have access
To any of it anymore.

Anything Downloaded with a Particular Apple ID is tied to that Apple ID and Cannot be Merged or Transferred to a Different Apple ID.
Apple ID FAQs > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622
SHARING iTunes MUSIC
http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

Lost all my music library and only have purchased music left how do I retrieve?

I lost all my music on my computer and my iPad while syncing how can I get it back it is not in the recycle Ben and I cannot find it anywhere

Hey Unctarheel2u,
I'd go through the directions in the following article, which provides steps to help you find missing media in iTunes:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Welcome to Apple Support Communities!
Take care,
Delgadoh

Since years, my wife and I are sharing one Apple computer. On this, we both have an individual user account. Each of us has an own iTunes Account and an own individual media library. Why is this setup now blocked by Apple? Cannot download purchased music.

Since years, my wife and I are sharing one Apple computer. On this, we both have an individual user account. Each of us has an own iTunes Account and an own individual media library. Each of us is using an own individual iPhone, which we frequently update with our iTunes Accounts. We have had this setup for years. It was convenient, reliable and user friendly, since we both could download what we wanted, create playlists, etc. without impact on the other. Exactly this convenience has made me and my wife real Apple fans, so that we also wanted to convince our daughter to move from Android and PC to our easier Apple setup.
Since a few weeks, this setup does not work anymore. From Apple Support (online chat on Apple.at) I was not told that this is not supported any more. Every computer is only allowed to be connected to one iTunes account. From one perspective (sharing music across other users as an act or media piracy, etc.) I can somehow understand this. However, since we are using different user accounts on this computer, I do not have access to other user´s iTunes media and could not play, download or copy it. So what is the point in this?
This now means, that my wife and I are only allowed to download individually purchased music with our personal iTunes accounts only with an interval of 90 days, so every on of us 2 times a year!
Was I incorrectly informed by the Apple support? If so, how can I solve the problem? Or is this really a new policy by Apple? If so, what is the reason? Am I expected to purchase a Mac for my wife, my daughter, myslef and for the three smaller kids to follow soon?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Unfortunately, if Apple simply allowed people to log into different accounts and download content, everyone would be using everyone could share everyone else's content and bypass the need to purchase anything. To protect against this, they limit you to logging into a new account to once every 90 days.
If two or more of you, have different accounts and use only one computer, you should each have your own user account on the computer, to avoid the need to log in and out of iTunes.

HT1420 Is it possible to mearge 2 itune accounts yet? We would like to get all the music we have purchased into our new account.

Is it possible to merge 2 itune accounts yet? We have an old pre-iphone account and a new me.com account. We have purchased music on both and would lie to put it all on one account.

No, it's not currently possible to merge accounts nor to transfer content from one account to another account - they will remain tied to the account that originally downloaded it. As long as both are authorised on your computer's iTunes then you should be able to use content from both.

My wife and I have shared one iTunes account for 6 years. We want to create our own Apple IDs, so when we sync to our new iMac we won't see each others contacts, photos, calendar, music, etc. Is there a way to move music/apps from one ID to a new ID?

My wife and I have shared one iTunes account for 6 years. We want to create our own Apple IDs, so when we sync to our new iMac we won't see each others contacts, photos, calendar, music, etc. Is there a way to move music/apps from one ID to a new ID?

JoeyV325 wrote:
Is there a way to move music/apps from one ID to a new ID?
No.
One of you create a new AppleID and one use the existing AppleID.
But you can still use the items in each iTunes library.
Create separate computer logins for each of you.
This will give you each your own data. Contacts, calendars, photos, etc. (and your own iTunes library).

HT204053 My wife and I have an iphone each using one apple id. How do we stop items being deleted from one phone and then find it has been deleted from the other?

My wife and I have an iphone each using one apple id. How do we stop phone contacts being deleted from one phone and then find it has been deleted from the other?
Also this works when one of us downloads an app it appears on the other iphone

You need to use separate iCloud accounts. This will mean that you can both have your own separate contracts and calendars and put an end to them being deleted by each other.
Whether or not you have a separate iTunes account, is up to you. If you have a separate iTunes accounts you will not be able to access the music, books, apps that have been purchased by the other. This may be exactly what you want, but it also means that you both may end up purchasing the same item.

My wife and I have iPhones and are receiving each other's text messages. How can we stop this from happening? Is this an Apple ID problem?

My wife and I have iPhones and I am receiving her text messages. Is this an Apple ID issue? How do I stop this from occurring?

Settings / Messages
on setting Send &Receive, deselect the other spouses email address.
You are sharing ring the same AppleID which is designed for 1 person.

How to change apple id on iPhone. Wife and I have same apple ID. Get each others iMessages. want to put her on another cloud with different id.

How to change apple id on iPhone? Wife and I have same apple ID which causes me to get her iMessages instead of her. I also get all her pics on my phone and I don't want them. We need to change her apple ID without causing my ID and cloud to be closed.

Have her create a new ID.   Here: https://appleid.apple.com/
Have her log out of iMessage/Facetime/iCloud on her device.   Now have her use the new ID she has created.
That should keep the 2 of you separated, except for iTunes purchases.   You can share that ID in a family up to 5 devices.

My wife and I have each one iPhone 4 each but only one iPad we share. ICloud does not seem to work for us?

My wife and I have each and iPhone 4 and one iPad. We would like to have both our iCloud accounts on the iPad. For families we do not generally buy doubles of everything (apps, songs, movies tv shows, etc) and that includes iPads. But right now we are sharing and iCloud account and that is causing a lot of problems with calendars, contacts, reminders, imessanger, etc. it would be cool ( and more like a computer ) if we could have our separate accounts and our iPad 2 could hold both our iCloud accounts simultaneously. So it holds our personal information without affecting each other phones. I think this would solve family problems with one iTunes ID, many iCloud IDs, many iPhones but one iPad, laptop, computer, apple tv. Thank you.

Read http://macmost.com/setting-up-multiple-ios-devices-for-messages-and-facetime.htm l
If you wish to share an Apple ID with family members then read: http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-icloud-tips-sharing-an-apple-id-with-you r-family/

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