Casey Liss

Apple account transfers. Derek Martin writes, I spent over two hours on the phone with Apple support the other night trying to do this. At first my Mac and iPhone told me that I was ineligible to migrate. It didn't say which account had the problem or what the problem was.

My support advisor was very knowledgeable, but the issue seemed to be that I'm sharing my iCloud Plus storage with more than one other person. I am the organizer of my family, me, my wife, and two kids, which is two people too many. To migrate, I will need to have my wife create a family. Then I must disband my family and transfer the kids to my wife's family and then migrate purchases.

My support advisor was very knowledgeable, but the issue seemed to be that I'm sharing my iCloud Plus storage with more than one other person. I am the organizer of my family, me, my wife, and two kids, which is two people too many. To migrate, I will need to have my wife create a family. Then I must disband my family and transfer the kids to my wife's family and then migrate purchases.

If it allows me, there's no way to know if something else is blocking my migration in advance. then join my wife's family, then have her leave it so that I become the organizer, and then have her rejoin it. That should have us back where we began. I feel like there's way too much that could go wrong with that many steps.

If it allows me, there's no way to know if something else is blocking my migration in advance. then join my wife's family, then have her leave it so that I become the organizer, and then have her rejoin it. That should have us back where we began. I feel like there's way too much that could go wrong with that many steps.

Also, the migrate purchases support page makes no mention of iTunes Match, which I've been paying for yearly forever. And though my support person told me it will migrate fine, going on his word alone is not comforting, especially on day one of a new feature. Furthermore, iTunes Match does not appear in my list of subscriptions.

Also, the migrate purchases support page makes no mention of iTunes Match, which I've been paying for yearly forever. And though my support person told me it will migrate fine, going on his word alone is not comforting, especially on day one of a new feature. Furthermore, iTunes Match does not appear in my list of subscriptions.

He said that's because they are included as part of Apple Music, and even though I pay for music and Match as separate subscriptions. Lastly, there was no mention of what would happen to our private and shared photo libraries, in which we have over 150,000 items during family disbandment and recreation.

He said that's because they are included as part of Apple Music, and even though I pay for music and Match as separate subscriptions. Lastly, there was no mention of what would happen to our private and shared photo libraries, in which we have over 150,000 items during family disbandment and recreation.

I will interject very quickly that I also paid for iTunes Match for forever, and everyone told me, oh, it'll be fine if you're paying for Apple One or whatever the heck it's called. You'll be fine. It'll still work. And To be honest, it has, as far as I know, it has worked just fine. And so I can concur that, Derek, you could probably get rid of the separate payment for iTunes Match.

I will interject very quickly that I also paid for iTunes Match for forever, and everyone told me, oh, it'll be fine if you're paying for Apple One or whatever the heck it's called. You'll be fine. It'll still work. And To be honest, it has, as far as I know, it has worked just fine. And so I can concur that, Derek, you could probably get rid of the separate payment for iTunes Match.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, right.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. In Apple's defense, they have added additional restrictions and guidelines and whatnot on purchase transfers. There's a knowledge base article that we will link in the show notes. And then our friend Stephen Hackett had a little write up about it.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. In Apple's defense, they have added additional restrictions and guidelines and whatnot on purchase transfers. There's a knowledge base article that we will link in the show notes. And then our friend Stephen Hackett had a little write up about it.

One of the things that was called out as something that you can't do, or as an example, reading from the support document, you can't migrate purchases if your secondary Apple account is used with TestFlight for testing beta versions of apps from a developer. Open TestFlight and select stop testing for each app to remove it from your account. Woof.

One of the things that was called out as something that you can't do, or as an example, reading from the support document, you can't migrate purchases if your secondary Apple account is used with TestFlight for testing beta versions of apps from a developer. Open TestFlight and select stop testing for each app to remove it from your account. Woof.

Yeah. Stephen Hackett writes, it's a great Apple has built this tool, but my word, this whole thing is complicated.

Yeah. Stephen Hackett writes, it's a great Apple has built this tool, but my word, this whole thing is complicated.

Let's talk about backdoors. So there is a op-ed by Matthew Green and Alex Stamos on the Wall Street Journal. UK kicks Apple's door open for China. And they talk about the implications of the ridiculous law that the UK has enacted and seems to be trying to leverage. And a quote that John pulled out, which I also would have pulled out had I seen it first, which I didn't.