Unifying Clouds, MobileMe, and iTunes?
Hello:
Can someone please help. I am lost in the CyberSpace if not lost in the clouds.
I had been using MobileMe and iTunes fine without any problems until Yesterday.
Recently I bought an iCloud account, in which I was given a different email address.
Today I bought a new iPad.
I tried to setup iCloud for backup and restore instead of using iTunes.
It wouldn't let me change my Apple ID or email address.
Is there some way I can merge everything into one unified account?
Thanks in advance
Use your ex-MobileMe login for iCloud; use your iTunes ID for iTunes, iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match. There's no problem in having two IDs this way, and in fact it's more secure not to have your iTunes login the same as your email address (given the number of complaints about iTunes accounts getting hacked).
Once you've got it running Keychain will handle the logins anyway so you won't even need to remember which login is which.
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Merge MobileMe and iTunes account?! This is CRAZY unfair!
When I first joined MobileMe some years ago I couldn't merge my iTunes account with my new MobileMe email address. Furthermore, at the beginning I believe (though I can't find any info to back this up) that it was NECESSARY that you had a seperate account for mobileme and the iTunes store, that's why I have two.
Now that I've switched over to cloud my MobileMe Account is obviously the one I want to use for everything, but all my music and perchases for the past 4 or 5 YEARS are on another account, which I'm told I can't merge. What happens when people get married, or or change email addresses, or even countries?
Are digital commodities really this fragile and fleeting? If so I'm just about done throwing my money at binary, and go back to CDs.
Any thoughts... what can I do? I've spent hundreds if not thousands I'm sure over the past 5 years... this is crazy.Use your ex-MobileMe login for iCloud; use your iTunes ID for iTunes, iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match. There's no problem in having two IDs this way, and in fact it's more secure not to have your iTunes login the same as your email address (given the number of complaints about iTunes accounts getting hacked).
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AppleID, MobileMe, iCloud, iTunes mess
Can apple fix the appleID mess it's created?
I suspect almost everyone has this problem.
iTunes was created first. When you set up a new iTunes account, it creates an appleid using the email address provided. So far, so good.
Then came MobileMe. Create a new MobileMe account and a new appleid was created. You had to use the MobileMe provided [email protected] email address. This was the default so you couldn't use the same email that you used when creating your iTunes account. Now you have two appleid's and two different emails, one for each appleid.
Now comes iCloud. Fortunately, Apple seems to have migrated from MobileMe to iCould without creating yet another appleid. That's an improvement. Now, everyone has two appleids, but at least it's not three.
Heres the problem. When you try to set up iMessage on your iPhone, iPad or iPod you are most likely going to have a problem.
An email adddress can only be associated with one appleid. It's a hard one-to-one relationship in the apple database. Should I use my itunes appleid or my icloud appleid? What's a person to do? Ah, the humanity!
If you have associated any email addresses with either of your appleids, then there are going to be more conflicts and you won't have visibility to them.
Here's and example.
Assume iTunes account uses email #1, most likely NOT @me.com because me.com didn't exist when you set up iTunes.
Assume iCloud account uses email #2, most likely an @me.com because that was required with MobileMe.
Assume you have a personal or work address, email #3 let's call it @yahoo.com. This could also be a work domain, @yahoo.com email or @gmail.com email.
Assume you assigned email #3 to one of your appleid's as an alternative email address. You probably did this because it's obvious on the applieid form and it's a good idea to have an alternative email for accounts like iTunes, MobileMe and iTunes because they ding your credit card.
Let's say you want your friends to iMessage you at [email protected]. You want this because you want your friends to reach you at email address #3. You also don't want to give out an email address that is associated with a paid, credit card account, like iTunes and iCloud. So, you login to iMessage with appleid #1. Then you add email #3, your personal email that you share with your friends. You want your friends to use your personal, email #3.
iMessage barks, "You can't use this email because it's already being used."
It would be nice if iMessage would tell you a like more. Like, which appleid is in play. Or what you need to do to resolve this. Or where you need to go. Sadly, this is not the case. iMessage would have been equally as helpful by saying, "You're an idiot. You're not smart enough to use iMessage."
Of course, no one logs into appleid.apple.com regularly. I completely forgot that appleid.apple.com exists. The UI's for customers are iTunes, MobileMe and now iCloud.
To resolve this, you need to do the following.
1. Remember that appleid.apple.com is the place to go to manage applieid. I don't have space in my brain for this since I never use it and these accounts are actually created on iTunes, MobileMe and iCould, not on appleid.apple.com.
2. Login into both applieid accounts and look at the emails associated with each.
3. Think about how you want to fix this.
4. Think about which applieid you want to use for iMessage, your iTunes one or your iCloud one.
5. Wonder about the implications of #4. If I use iCloud for iMessage, can I still buy things in iTunes with my other apple id? If I use iTunes, will my iMessages get to me? Does iMessage need the iCloud apple id? How the heck did I get two appleid's anyway?
6. Develop a plan for moving your email addresses around between both appleid's to resolve any conflicts with iMessage. You must consider which email you want to give to friends and which you want to keep "secret" for security reasons.
7. Make the changes by removed emails, adding emails, re-verifiying emails, etc.
8. Make changes to iMessage, on every device. For me, this is four devices - iphone 3gs, iphone 4, ipad 1, ipad 2.
9. Test and hopefully it works now.
In my case, I figured it out and got everything working after a few failures.
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I am a tech entrepreneur and I'm a long time user of all apple products. This mess stumped me for a while. I can't imagine new apple users my wife or my parents have a chance in **** in figuring this out on their own.
How many calls are coming into Apple Care about this issue?
"iMessage doesn't work!"
"iMessage rejected me!"
"iMessage hates my email address!"
"iMessage is forcing me to give out my secure iTunes email to all my friends!"
Hey Apple, I recommend you take a hard look at the appleID message process as it relates to id and email address management.
Create a universal appleid for God's sake. It will be painful to merge, but much more painful if you don't. It will be devastating if you continue creating new appleid's for every new product. Users will run out of email addresses and they will lose their minds trying to connect all your great products that they can't use.
If Steve was still here, someone would be fired. You can do better than this.
My 2 cents.Yes, it's 2014 and my Apple ID situation is beyond ridiculous. I have a computer science degree and this has had me stuck for months. THe best I've come up with is a seriously snafu'ed workaround that doesn't always work.
Just got a new iPhone 5S (thank you, Apple, for dropping new 4S to only 8 mg so it's completely unusable) and all my apps won't update, my Apple Id - either the new or the old - are completely unrecognized anywhere. I've added, changed passwords, logged out, deauthorized until I'm blue in the face.
APPLE ARE YOU LISTENING????????????? THis is a complete CLUSTER and you should be ashamed of yourselves. No doubt, Steve is rolling over in his grave. You've completely lost sight of his amazing vision.
Just so you know, I've escalated this to the highest level of Apple support and guess what the guy told me - "I've never heard of this problem". Wth?
On top of all the Apple ID insanity, someone else used my email address and created an Apple ID with it. The tech guys never did figure out how to fix it and their sage advice? Abandon both the Apple ID and email address (which I've had since the year 2000)!!!!!! Seriously????
So let's recap - the Apple ID situation is completely unworkable and Apple software allows two people to create Apple ID's using the same email??? I've written code - this is simple. Are you listening, Apple???? CHECK FOR EXISTING EMAILS...
Well, folks... there you have it. A once great company going straight down the tubes. I'm finding ANYONE but Apple to get my devices from in the future. -
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When I tried to update my iPhone 5s to iOS 8.1, I was forced to choose to restore or back up. Back up wasn't working so I had no choice but to restore. I lost pictures over the last two years. When I tried my cloud, there was nothing. I would get notifications that my cloud was full, but I thought there would at least be some photos in there. When I tried to restore a back up, it said the last time was two years ago. I thought when you're on wifi, it automatically backs up. I've charged my iPhone into my Macbook a bunch of times, so something should have backed up. Is there any hope for my photos?Sorry no backup - no pictures.
Yes phone will automatically backup to icloud when on wifi and phone is charge, but your phone storage was full so it stop backing up.
Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support
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When your phone was connected to your computer, you should've seen an autoplay which would've allowed you to import your pics to your computer as you would a digital camera Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or Windows PC - Apple Support -
I have icloud and itunes match and most of my songs have been uploaded to the cloud. Some songs still have the "waiting" icon next to them and when I turn itunes match on they neither upload nor are they determined ineligible. My computer will literally spin its wheels for hours trying to upload the same song. Additionally, I uploaded an audiobook disc on my computer and 3 of the 11 tracks are still waiting to be uploaded???
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Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
If the missing files just can't be found then, assuming you are in region where you are permitted multiple downloads of your audio purchases, delete the current enties and download again from your purchased history.
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Enter the Apple ID you want to use for iCloud in Control Panel > Network > Internet > iCloud.
Enter the Apple ID you want to use for store purchases (including iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match) in iTunes > iTunes Store.Welcome to the Apple community.
iTunes and iCloud and different accounts, you will need to delete both accounts from your device before adding the new details in their place.
For iCloud go to settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit the delete button. You can then sign back in using your correct details. For iTunes go to settings >store, tap your account ID and then sign out, you can then sign back in using your correct Apple ID. -
I was logged in with a temporary profile on my pc, after restarting everything seemed to be fine. But my iTunes music is all in the cloud now, and my playlists are gone. What do I do?
My iTunes media folder shows ALL of my music still there (including all from imported CD's), but on my iTunes, it says most of it is in the cloud? As well as my playlists that I have had for YEARS, are all gone. I just recently got a new laptop and had my iTunes transferred over, when I re-downloaded iTunes onto it, everything popped up perfectly from this same file. Now after this "Temporary Profile" mishap, nothing is working properly with iTunes.
Help! Please.Do this. If all the synced media like apps and music are alread in the the iTnunes library just backup the iPod and restore from that backup
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
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I installed an iTunes update on my Windows Vista Laptop and iTunes wouldn't start saying it was missing MSVCR80.dll, now when I start Outlook it is going on about a mobileme error? Any advice? I'm tempted to not use iTunes ever again.
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I used a usb turntable to import old vinyl records into iTunes. Then with the cloud and iTunes match I put them on another Mac. The songs come up in the music list but they are greyed out. How do I get them recognized. The symbol states the songs were downloaded from iCloud. I would like to get them to play so that I can make a playlist, and burn a CD.
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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When I subscribed to Match this morning iTunes used the account I set up ages ago. When I set up iCloud on the iPad it pushed me to the MobileMe account but now the iPad doesn't recognize the iTunes Match subscription but it does exist on the AppleTV since I set that up independently. Is there a way to Match MobileMe ID and iTunes ID so they know they go/come from the same place?
Until Apple allow us to merge Apple IDs, no.
But if you go to Settings / Store on the iPad and change the Apple ID there to the one you used for Match, everything should work. Essentially it means your iPad will use one ID for iCloud, and one for the iTunes store, but they're kept separate, so everything should be fine... -
How do i play my iTunes music on my iPad using WiFi and iTunes match? I don't want to download my music to my iPad.
But that's what I don't want to do. I think I must have misunderstood what was possible with iTunes Match and the cloud. I had thought I would be able to play my music directly from the cloud using WiFi. I didn't think I would have to download it from the cloud to play it on my iPad. I store it in the cloud because I don't have enough storage space on my iPad -- I can't download all my music because I run out of storage space. If iTunes Match doesn't allow you to play the music FROM THE CLOUD, but instead only allows you to DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE CLOUD TO YOUR IPAD TO PLAY, then it's not serving the purpose I thought it would. What's the point of storing it in the cloud if you have to download it to play it?
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I have a new 5s and everything has updated from the cloud except my iTune songs. They all show waiting since yesterday , how do I get to download
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I want to use my mobileme account as my default ID in itunes but it say I cant use it. I log in using my mobileme accunt and then go into my account settings to change to my mobileme email address but it says I cant use it. Am I doing something wront?
I tried:
disabling the addin in Outlook: no effect,
removing the MobileMe Control Panel via Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs (no-go there, as there is no Uninstall option),
flushing iTunes, Apple Sofware Update, Apple Mobile Devices Support, Bonjour and Apple Applications Support using Revo Uninstaller on its most aggressive setting and then re-installing iTunes: no effect.
In the end, I simply renamed C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\OutMMe32.dll to OutMMe32.dll.rjs
Seems to be a safe workaround; Outlook is back to its original behviour and iTunes is fine (or as much as it ever was, anyway).
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