Final night time, Apple posted a new support document about migrating purchases between accounts, one thing that Apple customers with lengthy on-line histories have been ready on for years, if not many years. When you’ve got films, music, or apps orphaned on numerous iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iTunes accounts that preceded what you are utilizing now, you can begin the pretty concerned strategy of shifting them over.

“You’ll be able to select emigrate apps, music, and different content material you’ve bought from Apple on a secondary Apple Account to a main Apple Account,” the doc reads, suggesting that individuals might need older accounts tied primarily to only sure films, music, or different purchases that they will now carry ahead to their main, device-linked account. The process takes place on an iPhone or iPad contained in the Settings app, within the “Media & Purchases” part in your named account part.

There are a number of hitches to notice. You’ll be able to’t migrate purchases from or into a baby’s account that exists inside Household Sharing. You’ll be able to solely migrate purchases to an account every year. There are some problems when you’ve got music libraries on each accounts and in addition when you’ve got by no means used the first account for purchases or downloads. And migration just isn’t accessible within the EU, UK, or India.