Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account

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Hi friends,

Seeking advice on how to delete past music purchases on a now secondary account.

I recently listened to MacSparky’s battle to merge past purchases from a secondary to main account and in the end he just accepted they would be lost. I am presuming the same will happen with my migration attempts but thought I would ask the collective wisdom of the Forum for further ideas.

I have a legacy appleid (gmail based id) which I used to buy music and movies prior to ICloud, AppleOne etc. For simplification I would like to migrate the Gmail ID based Apple account purchases to my AppleID, and then close/ignore the gmail id.

I am trying to migrate the movie and tv purchases to my newish (6+ years) AppleID but am unable to because of past music purchases on the secondary account.

Is there any way to delete the music purchases from my now secondary account, so I can just migrate the movies? (Simple alternative of course is to just add the old account as a family member but my OCD traits don’t like that) :wink:

Or do I just acknowledge that like the Kindle DRM issue that has recently arisen, that I have no control over purchased (licensed) content and either add the old Gmail id account as a family member or just kiss the purchased movies etc goodbye and leave the account to gather byte dust…

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Apple recently made this service available, which may work for you.

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The way I’d understood it was that if you’d made purchases on both accounts, you couldn’t merge the two. There must be a reason for this. I guess you’d need to speak to Apple about it, but given David’s experience, it seems that Apple’s support teams don’t understand the process, the reasons for the exclusions, or how to guide people through the merge when they hit issues.

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Thanks. I have tried that and after an hour with Apple Support they advised that legacy music purchases he secondary account precluded migration.

I am happy to lose the old music purchases but it seems it’s an all or nothing approach music and movies and books,

Que sera sera as Doris Day once sang.

Many thanks

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Thanks. Licensing restrictions I guess, Damn that free U2 album! :grin:

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This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Probably due to some legal nonsense, but still, why bother if you are going to put bonkers restrictions in place like this?

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