Showing posts with label drm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drm. Show all posts
Friday, July 12, 2024

Sharing an iPad with "Family Sharing" and a unique "Family" Apple ID.

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Nobody expects Apple to bring Apple ID switching to iPadOS -- even though there's a version of it for managed devices . Technical and re...
Friday, April 28, 2023

iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach

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Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Migrating from an Apple Store/iTunes shared media Apple ID to a standard Apple ID configuration

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I'm putting this up as a peacekeeper. I hope one day I'll fill it in better, but if you are trying to migrate from a shared Apple ID...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Managing multiple Apple Store Apple IDs in Monterey: how to sign out and thus change default Apple ID for app update and purchase

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There's a lot of complexity in Apple's software, but my nomination for the ultimate complexity is the web of undocumented and slowly...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

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I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Apple Mac App Store: "Unable to download item. Please try again later": The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

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I was logged into my admin account on my daughter's Big Sur Air and saw the usual nag to update Apps. When I tried though I got  "U...
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Apple's Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under

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(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Apple Manage Devices / Associated Devices is still kind of broken

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If multiple devices share a Store Apple ID they will show up in Apple ID Devices . They will also show in iTunes (for that Store Apple ID),...

iOS 12 Family Sharing: Purchase Sharing supports changing Apple ID and UI could support future multiple Apple IDs.

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One of Apple’s “ original sins ” is the proliferation of Apple IDs and the inability to merge or manage them. I have four that I know of wi...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Two possible bugs in iOS 11.3 to watch out for: enable purchases by Touch ID, change iTunes & App Store account

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Our kids' phones were setup to use my Store Apple ID (it’s an old practice — see a blog post about undoing this ). The phones were set t...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Apple has a new problem with DRM and device management

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Today one of the family iPhones died. I went to remove it from our quota of devices (you can have a maximum of 10 devices associated with a ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Life with Apple: Podcasts move to streaming only

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In a move that feels as inevitable as death and taxes, Apple has made podcasts effectively streaming only. The same thing is likely to happe...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

iTunes purchased movies showing only a handful of my purchased movies

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iTunes on my Mac shows 138 movies of which 135 have purchase dates. Those 135 were purchases from Apple starting in March 2009. If I visit ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Modern bugs: server, client, and DRM. Also transient.

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Another reason why we can’t have nice things. My son's iPhone had access to some of our cloud media (TV) library, but not all of it. Th...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Beware: iPhones with mixed FairPlay app ownership may no longer backup/restore as expected

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Ran into this with a friend’s devices. He was syncing his and his wife’s iPhones to iTunes under Lion. Not sure how old iTunes library was. ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Can I send an iTunes gift card to someone in another country? How about buy an app through iTunes?

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No. At least not as far as I can tell between the US and Canada. Unless you have both an Apple ID and a credit card and a billing address i...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

The curse of DRM - can't read new book because Adobe E_ACT_NOT_READY

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This is why we should all loathe Digital Rights Management in books. I download the EPUB version of a Google Play book I bought and I got t...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Audiobooks not showing in iOS 8.4 iBooks? That's because they're still like Movies used to be. Also, The Great Courses.

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Decades ago I talked about a personal dementia prevention solution. A dementia test application would be hidden in the OS, but about once a ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

iOS 8.3 took away one of my favorite parental controls

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With iOS 8.3 Apple made an undocumented change that will make a few kids happy. No, not the post-update dialog that will lead many parents ...