Is there a way to have multiple accounts in iPhone's iOS App store logged in?

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There are two different Apple ID accounts with multiple purchases.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

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As far as I know, you can only have one account signed into the App Store at a time.

However, Apple’s “Family Sharing” allows you to share App Store purchases and other Apple services among multiple accounts. It has some limitations, but perhaps it will be good enough for what you are trying to accomplish.

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It seems like the master account needs payment information. Is there no way around it? :(

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Unfortunately, that is one of the limitations I alluded to.

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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: You Can Now Migrate Purchases Between Your Apple Accounts

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The support page link you posted (thank you) is silent about sharing Notes, Contacts, and Calendar. Do you know if Family Sharing allows sharing Notes and Contacts? (Long ago, I seem to have found some way to share Calendars, but a refresher course would be welcome.) It seems that both Notes and Contacts allow me to share individual notes and contacts, but that is not useful.

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Some quick searching suggests that the answer is “no,” at least not as a feature of Family Sharing. It looks like you are limited to whatever sharing options are already built into those apps. It does seem that a lot of people ask about it, so maybe Apple eventually will add those apps to Family Sharing.

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Thanks for the confirmation. It’s what I believed.

I hope so, but there seems to be a strong negative correlation between what I think is useful and what Apple thinks is worth developing.

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Not sure this addresses you need. I have four Apple IDs. On the iPhone, I have as my “iCloud” account my personal Apple ID. I then set up the other Apple IDs as “internet accounts”. From there, I can turn on their Notes and Calendars. They show up as additional accounts in my iPhone Notes and Calendar apps.

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Thank you. That does address what I need.

I had hoped that Family Sharing would be cleaner in some way, but adding the other Apple Account as another “internet account” does work.