What to do after you lot change your Apple ID or password

After you change your Apple ID or countersign, yous might demand to update your sign-in information with any Apple services that you're using.

Use the list beneath to make certain that each store or service is using your updated sign-in information. You can use these steps to sign in on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, and Apple Telly.

In some cases, you lot don't need to update your Apple ID or password on your device until the next fourth dimension you're asked to sign in to the store or service. Merely if you're using services to share information or communicate with others, y'all should update your Apple ID or password immediately.

Apple Developer Programs

Nothing needs to be done. Within 24 hours of changing your Apple ID or countersign, the change automatically updates for Apple tree's programmer programs.

Apple Online Store

Update your Apple tree ID and password on your iPhone, iPad, iPod impact, Mac, and PC.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

If you're using iOS x.three or subsequently, become to Settings > [your proper name] > iTunes & App Store. If you're using iOS ten.2 or earlier, go to Settings > iTunes & App Shop.

  • If you're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, tap your Apple ID, so tap Sign Out. So enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Mac with OS Ten Mount Lion or after, or Windows PC

Apple Retail Store services

When yous brand a Genius Bar, Workshop, or Business reservation, yous'll be asked to sign in with your Apple ID and password.

Apple Support website and Apple tree Support Communities

Go to the Apple Support website.

  • If you're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password the next time you employ a feature of the site that requires you to sign in. For example, yous'll exist asked to sign in to view an open instance.
  • If you lot're signed in with your previous Apple ID, click Sign Out, then click Sign Out again to confirm. The side by side time you apply a feature of the site that requires you to sign in, enter your updated Apple tree ID and password.

Get to the Apple Support Communities.

  • If you're signed out, click Sign in and enter your updated Apple ID and countersign.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, click Sign out, then click Sign in and enter your updated Apple ID and countersign.

FaceTime

Update your Apple ID and password on your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear on, and Mac.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on

Get to Settings > FaceTime.

  • If yous're signed out on your iPhone or iPod bear upon, tap "Use your Apple ID for FaceTime" and enter your updated Apple tree ID and password. On your iPad, just enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, tap your Apple ID, so tap Sign Out. On your iPhone or iPod touch on, tap "Use your Apple ID for FaceTime" and enter your updated Apple ID and password to sign in. On your iPad, only enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Mac with OS X Mount Panthera leo or afterwards

  1. Open the FaceTime app.
  2. Select FaceTime > Preferences.
    • If you're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password.
    • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, select your Apple tree ID, click Sign Out. Then click Sign Out again when asked to confirm, and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

iCloud

Update your Apple ID and password on your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear on, Mac, PC, and Apple TV.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod affect

If you're using iOS 10.three or later, go to Settings > [your name]. If y'all're using iOS ten.2 or before, go to Settings > iCloud.

  • If you're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password. The information in iCloud will automatically appear on your device after yous sign in.
  • If you're still signed in with your previous Apple tree ID:
    1. Scroll down and tap Sign Out, then follow the onscreen steps. You might need to enter your password. Your data volition remain in iCloud and will be updated on your device when you sign in to iCloud again.
    2. Enter your updated Apple ID and password.

If you updated your Apple ID email address* before signing out of iCloud, and your device repeatedly asks for the countersign to your previous Apple tree ID, you can temporarily change your Apple ID to sign in.

Mac

If you're using macOS Catalina, cull Apple menu  > Organization Preferences, click Apple ID, so click iCloud. If yous're using macOS Mojave or before, cull Apple tree menu  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.

  • If you're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password to sign in. The information in iCloud volition automatically appear on your device afterward you sign in.
  • If you lot're signed in with your previous Apple ID:
    1. Click Sign Out. Depending on what iCloud options are turned on, yous'll be asked if you lot desire to make copies or delete iCloud data (Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Bookmarks, Photo Stream) from your Mac. Your data will remain in iCloud and volition be updated on your device when you sign in to iCloud again.
    2. Enter your updated Apple tree ID and password to sign in.

Windows PC

Open up iCloud for Windows and click Sign Out.

  • If y'all're signed out, sign in with your updated Apple ID and password. The data in iCloud will automatically appear on your device afterward you lot sign in.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID:
    1. Click Sign Out. Depending on what iCloud options are turned on, yous'll be asked if you want to make copies or delete iCloud data (Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Bookmarks, Photograph Stream) from your PC. Click Delete. Your information will remain in iCloud and volition be updated on your device when y'all sign in to iCloud again.
    2. Sign in with your updated Apple ID and password.

Apple Telly

To play content from your Mac or PC on an Apple Tv Hard disk, go to Settings > Accounts > iCloud. On Apple tree Television set (3rd generation or earlier) go to Settings > iCloud.

  • If you're signed out, choose Sign In. You'll be asked to sign in with the Apple ID that you entered for the iTunes Store. If you use the same Apple ID for iCloud and the iTunes Store, choose Aye.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, cull Sign Out, and then cull Sign In. You'll exist asked to sign in with the Apple ID that yous entered for the iTunes Store. If you use the same Apple ID for iCloud and the iTunes Shop, cull Aye.

App Store, Books Store, and iTunes Store

Update your Apple ID and password on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Idiot box, or Windows PC. On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, iTunes includes iTunes Genius, iTunes Home Sharing, iTunes Friction match, and iTunes Shop. On a Mac with macOS Catalina, open Apple tree Music, Apple tree Television, or Apple Podcasts instead of iTunes.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod bear upon

If you're using iOS ten.three or subsequently, become to Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Shop. If you're using iOS ten.2 or earlier, go to Settings > iTunes & App Store.

  • If yous're signed out, enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If yous're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out. And so enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Mac

On a Mac with macOS Catalina, open up Apple Music, Apple Tv set, or Apple tree Podcasts.

  • If you lot're signed out, select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple tree ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, select Business relationship > Sign Out, then select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes.

  • If you're signed out, select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and countersign.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, select Business relationship > Sign Out, and so select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple tree ID and countersign.

Open Apple tree Books.

  • If you're signed out, choose Store > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, choose Store > Sign Out, so choose Store > Sign In and enter your updated Apple tree ID and password.

Open up the App Store.

  • If you're signed out, click Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, choose Store > Sign Out, and so click Sign In and enter your updated Apple tree ID and password.

Apple Television

On Apple tree TV Hard disk drive, go to Settings > Accounts > iTunes and App Store. On Apple Telly (tertiary generation or before), go to Settings > iTunes Shop.

  • If y'all're signed out, choose Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, choose Sign Out, and so choose Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

For Home Sharing on Apple Tv set HD, go to Settings > Accounts > Home Sharing. On Apple TV (3rd generation or before), go to Settings > Computers. So cull Plough Off Home Sharing. When y'all're asked to ostend, choose Turn Off. Then choose Plow On Habitation Sharing, and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Smart TV or streaming media device

Open up Apple Music, Apple TV, or Apple tree Podcasts.

  • If you're signed out, choose Settings, then select Account > Sign In.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, choose Settings, select Account > Sign Out, then choose Settings, select Business relationship > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and countersign.

Windows PC

Open iTunes.

  • If y'all're signed out, select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If you're signed in with your previous Apple ID, select Account > Sign Out, then select Account > Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Jobs at Apple

Go to Jobs at Apple and click My Profile.

  • If y'all're signed out, click Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If y'all're signed in with your previous Apple tree ID, click Sign Out, then click Sign In and enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Messages

Afterwards you update your Apple ID, your friends will receive new messages from your updated Apple tree ID. Old messages aren't removed.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on

Go to Settings > Messages, then tap Send & Receive.

  • If you're signed out on your iPhone or iPod bear on, tap "Use your Apple ID for iMessage" then enter your updated Apple ID and password. On your iPad, just enter your updated Apple ID or password.
  • If you lot're signed in with your previous Apple ID, tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out. On your iPhone or iPod touch, tap "Apply your Apple ID for iMessage" and enter your updated Apple ID or countersign. On your iPad, only enter your updated Apple ID and password.

Mac with Bone X Mount Lion or later

Open the Messages app, select Letters > Preferences, click the Accounts tab, then select your Apple tree ID from the list of accounts.

  • If you're signed out, sign in with your updated Apple ID and password.
  • If yous're signed in with your previous Apple ID, click Sign Out, so click Sign Out again when asked to confirm. Sign in with your updated Apple ID and password.

Book Purchase Program

If you inverse your Apple ID or countersign and you're in the Volume Purchase Programme, contact Apple tree Back up for assist. Changing your Apple tree ID or countersign will prevent you from signing in to your purchasing account, making purchases, and accessing previous purchases.

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