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Re: Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

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Post by tommica »

AnonC wrote: post #12

I’ve been one of those people with one account for media, purchases and subscriptions and another one for iCloud. The purchases account, referred to as secondary in this document, is shared with family members (i.e., they use this same account and credentials for purchases too). Family members in turn have their own individual iCloud accounts. I’ve never tried doing Family Sharing with this setup because it seemed co…

Maybe the balance transfer has some regulations and rules with fraud because it's "money"?

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Post by walterbell »

sails01 wrote: post #14

Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries. Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)

Media (music, film, TV, app) content licenses are country specific. Apple is relatively good about providing global access to purchased content. Amazon alters the list of available titles based on client IP/VPN geolocation. Some streaming vendors entirely block client devices based on IP/VPN geolocation.

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Post by makeitdouble »

walterbell wrote: post #23
sails01 wrote: post #14

Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries. Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)

Media (music, film, TV, app) content licenses are country specific. Apple is relatively good about providing global access to purchased content. Amazon alters the list of available titles based on client IP/VPN geolocation. Some streaming vendors entirely block client devices based on IP/VPN geolocation.

To nuance, the Kindle store is more open than any of the stores I know of. As long as the account is created on the right country store, Amazon won't care about a real address or the credit card's country and will allow for digital purchases of any content available.

Streaming goes through the Prime portal so it's more tricky, but getting access to foreign ebooks without trouble is to me a pretty big deal.

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Post by Gys »

prawn wrote: post #4
kstrauser wrote: post #3

It worked! I haven't felt this thrilled with an Apple update since my iPad Pro became powerful enough to run a calculator! But really, OMG, finally . I tried the process and it worked. Goodbye, legacy account I've been dragging along with me for the last decade!

I think I have 4-5 accounts (including one using a friend's old Californian street address so I could access US-only apps that weren't available in Australia at the time), so I'm very keen to try this. Edit: "Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases." Arghh!

> Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases

This is a setting nowadays, meaning that you can now change that for any account now. I have done that a few times already.

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Post by LexGray »

prawn wrote: post #4
kstrauser wrote: post #3

It worked! I haven't felt this thrilled with an Apple update since my iPad Pro became powerful enough to run a calculator! But really, OMG, finally . I tried the process and it worked. Goodbye, legacy account I've been dragging along with me for the last decade!

I think I have 4-5 accounts (including one using a friend's old Californian street address so I could access US-only apps that weren't available in Australia at the time), so I'm very keen to try this. Edit: "Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases." Arghh!

I imagine cross country purchase transfer would be a nightmare to implement or the purchases would be multi-region to start with. My ideal world would be if region locks were just banned, but instead each country/media outlet is just adding restrictions to what citizens can access.

Owned purchases may have some sort of import fee to account for lost tax revenue to make sure not purchased in country with lower tax then transferred which may be very complex to calculate.

Media/music especially is often edited/licensed for a specific country and only offered in a specific language per country. I’d prefer if Apple owned up to being a premier media outlet by providing every cut, sub and dub offered in every country for a single purchase in any country, but I am sure it saves Apple a few pennies on network transport and translator fees to restrict the options. If they could get a music contract allowing for original songs any director used originally that would be cake. Just imagine learning a languages by watching the original cut of your favorite movies in other languages. If Eddy Cue wanted to leave a memorable legacy it would be remove as many region restrictions as possible creating a class of global citizens.

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Post by zsmizzle »

Be warned: I migrated an old Apple account to my main Apple account and my “Continue Watching”/Watchlist in the TV App got totally cleared. It also forgot every Apple TV episode I have ever watched.

Super frustrating and it won’t let me undo the migration right now either.

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Post by Camillo »

Gys wrote: post #25
prawn wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I have 4-5 accounts (including one using a friend's old Californian street address so I could access US-only apps that weren't available in Australia at the time), so I'm very keen to try this. Edit: "Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases." Arghh!

> Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases This is a setting nowadays, meaning that you can now change that for any account now. I have done that a few times already.

What happens to your purchases in a different country?

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Post by yalok »

sails01 wrote: post #14

Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries. Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)

this! especially because lots of their content doesn't have audio on a specific language unless it's bought in that country's iTunes store.
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