Old apple id's popping up

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Old apple id's popping up

I have searched this and haven't found a solution yet. My iPad battery died and I have a replacement iPad Air 2. I backed up and redownloaded and now have the old apple ids coming up. There are two accounts, one was my daughter, one another person. Evidently songs were downloaded from them. It must've been many years ago. So I went to my account to see my purchases but it will only show what was under my id. I have no way of knowing which songs were downloaded under other accounts. So what do I do? Nothing suggested online helps at all.

Very frustrating that there isn't an easy fix.

iPad Air 2, iOS 12

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 4:00 PM

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Eric Root

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Jul 9, 2019 4:14 PM in response to Nant_s

You would have to sign into their accounts to see which ID made what purchase. If you know their ID/password, you can try downloading/updating using their ID. One option is to delete the apps/purchases made by the other IDs and download them using the new ID if desired. If necessary, check your purchases history to see which apps/purchases weren’t made by the current ID.

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Jul 9, 2019 4:55 PM in response to Eric Root

Ok, first I don't have the password to the old ids, which is the problem everyone is also saying.

Second, the only purchases that show up on my account are purchases made using my old or current Apple ID. These other ID's were other people and I have no way to find out either their passwords or the tunes that were downloaded. There doesn't seem to be a way to discern from all my "tunes" which I purchased or which was purchased under another ID. In a perfect world both the IDs and "offending" music could just be deleted.

So if I look at all the purchases I've made in the last 10 years, what exactly will that show me. I just did a cursory glance. It sounds like I would need to compare every single song I have listed and then trace them all back to a purchase that was made on my account to find out the songs and delete them so I will not constantly be asked for these two passwords. Really?

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Eric Root

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Jul 9, 2019 5:18 PM in response to Nant_s

Unfortunately, that is the only way to do it if you want to get rid of the popups for the old IDs.

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