I mean when you don't have a job (Microsoft closed all of their US stores) got to be helpful some how!
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Apple One Subscription Plans Will Support Users Who Have Multiple Apple IDs
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I mean when you don't have a job (Microsoft closed all of their US stores) got to be helpful some how!
I tried that in the past and it was so slooooow to show thumbnails and start playing. Maybe they've fixed it?
Hmm. I don’t find that. I just tested open it and it’s like I open the File app. Everything just looks the same (with all the thumbnails). It could be that all my video are in mp4.
*raises hand*
I've thoroughly enjoyed a number of shows so far and looking forward to a number of the ones in production.
When I first saw the trailer to this, I said this is stupid silly stuff and told myself I would never watch it. Got bored one night and started watching it. Halfway through the second episode, I said, yep, this is dumb stuff and was about to turn it off when I decided to just finish that second episode. Then it got interesting and I watched the whole series. I surprised myself. It's actually not bad.
This involves legal rights of ownership. If you have purchased a large amount of music, movies & tv shows on one account and some on another, Apple can't just transfer the rights between accounts. The entertainment companies still know the rights of what account their products are sold to. It would require a massive legal deal with a large number of entertainment companies to make it happen. One I'm sure they are not exactly eager to have to deal with, as they are constantly protecting their rights to things as it is, with how much piracy there still is.
Am I the only one that likes having two apple ID's? This allows me to share my software with my whole family including Apple Music. Now sure we can only use Apple Music once but we can all download software on any of our 20 apple devices and not have to worry about the developers not letting us use it across apple id's.
Your analysis only looks at this from one angle. For many people that have two accounts, myself included, Account A is used for the iTunes and App Store. Account B is used for iCloud storage (and Apple Card in my case). What I want is to close Account B and only use Account A, not transfer any purchases that Apple doesn’t have rights to. In this scenario, we simply want to be able to transfer iCloud storage from account B to Account A and have one account. There is no sharing of purchases and since Apple owns iCloud, I fail to see any legal issue with this route.
While this can technically be done manually, Apple threw a wrench into the mix by tying Apple Card to an iCloud account and making it so a user can not transfer it.
I agree with you breakdown, but I want to kill account A because I only want account B.
Doesn’t quite answer your question : My mother in law lives in Peru. We gave her an iPhone and set up her Apple ID here but works perfectly when she is in Peru.
yep that's expected. because it's not about the location about the phone. more interested to know about the location setting of the account.
I can change my username of account A without issue. I’ve done it before, so it works for me
I actually like having two accounts, it helps me keep things organized, but for a while I wanted to merge them as well. "What I want is to close Account B and only use Account A, not transfer any purchases that Apple doesn’t have rights to." I can see this point of view or angle as well, the one thing about it is your guessing/assuming everyone wants to close their iCloud [without music, movies or tv] and just transfer it to their now iTunes account. A number of people may want to do the reverse, which why I put my comment above.
Changing a non-iCloud.com account to another non-iCloud.com account is allowed, as I understand it. So I could change JohnDoe@msn.com to JohnDoe@gmail.com.
What has not has been allowed is changing a non-iCloud.com account to an iCloud.com account (so effectively merging a non-iCloud.com account with an iCloud.com account and using the iCloud.com account going forward). I could not merge the content of the JohnDoe@msn.com account to the JohnDoe@icloud.com account and only use JohnDoe@icloud.com for Apple services and purchased content.
So this means if I first bought content on JohnDoe@msn.com, I pretty much have to keep buying content on that account. This is my situation - my non-iCloud.com account has all my purchased iTunes content and my iCloud.com account is only used for content hosted on iCloud.com.
EXACTLY! This is the boat *most* of us are in.
Once you sign up you have the option of changing the account associated with iCloud storage. That's it. No merging of IDs.