How do you see that? I have iTunes 12.8.3.1 on my iMac and in the Account menu I’m told I have 3 computers authorized to PLAY content purchased with the account and 2 devices that can DOWNLOAD purchases. The 3 computers aren’t listed but besides my iMac, probably refer to some of my previous Mac computers: Macintosh LC, iMacs G3, G4, & G5, my PowerBook 145b, etc.
BTW, what determines if an Apple ID account is “primary” or “secondary”? Date of creation? When Apple created iTunes in 2001, I created an iTunes account using my AOL address. Later when Apple released Dot Mac in 2002, I created an Apple ID using it but only used it for registering hardware purchases, leaving iTunes, and later App Store, and Mac App Store purchases with the AOL based Apple ID.
You can’t migrate purchases if both the primary Apple Account and the secondary Apple Account have music library data associated with each of them.
My assumption is that means if you have already tracks that were purchased with an old Apple Account in your Library, this won’t work. I have a couple due to them using old email addresses, in addition to one for Japan. Music and Apps from these accounts mix happily together, but you need to use the associated secondary id and password for those tracks/apps.
This is interesting news. I have had two accounts forever, originating in different Apple services. One is now my iCloud account and the other is for purchases. It is not really a big inconvenience, and even has some advantages.
One particular use is when travelling overseas. I still want my iCloud services, but sometimes there are location-restricted apps where you have to login to the local app store. You used to be able to switch stores in the App Store app, but I cannot find any way to do it now.
So I have a UK Apple ID which connects me to the UK App Store, and when I am travelling there, I can access UK-specific apps while still keeping my iCloud services. App updates are a pain though, but for a few weeks while travelling, they can wait.
I can understand the EU and India, as perhaps it’s their pushing of third-party app stores that has somehow fudged roll-out this feature in those two. But the UK hasn’t done that, so what’s the reason for us here?
(will we ever find out the actual answer? Or will Apple just leave all three of us in the lurch with no explanation as to why?)
Soooooo annoying, as I’ve had this problem since MobileMe forcing its users to set-up a new Apple ID, some 15+ years ago. Pffftft Apple!
UPDATE: UK and EU now have this, so only India remains without the feature.
Note the quotation marks around the word ‘works’. As seemingly migrations are often failing for reasons users cannot clarify during their investigations as to why it failed.
On the third of three long calls with Apple senior support to figure out why migration wasn’t working, I discovered that an old Test Flight item was the culprit. Even though that testing was finished, and I had deleted the TestFlight app from the devices a couple of years back, something was still “there.” Support had me re-download TestFlight, select every “stop” available, and that allowed the migration to proceed. Apple’s description says “if your account is used with TestFlight” which suggests presently - but actually it’s “has ever been used” with TestFlight.
