On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:30, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have the problem where I have an iPad that my eldest uses, and I want him > to be able to have iTunes gift cards I his own account and be ale to buy > apps, but I don't want to give him my apple id, especially since I use it for > all sorts of stuff at Apple.
I doubt Apple will allow having multiple IDs being active on the same device at once. It sounds to me like the "merging" would be achieved by choosing one account to use going forward and transfering existing data and purchases to that account. > The one thing I know I am not doing is setting up ids for everyone. I'm not convinced that you'll be able to avoid this. Apple's stance seems to be that either you use one account to manage your household, or you allow each user to have an independent account. It'd certainly be nice to have "family accounts", with one parent account and several other child accounts which can have some independent data, but shared purchase access. This just seems like it'd be too liberal for Apple's licenses. Plus they'd have to handle spliting a child account off into a fully independent one, possibly merging independent accounts into a family account, etc. One account per household or device is far simpler, at the expense of some user customization. But, that's how Apple rolls. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
