The American iTunes account is the most popular around the world, due to several reasons: Including the spread of American iTunes cards and the availability of some applications and games in the American store before any other store, so there are millions of users who have more than one account, but this matter has disadvantages because sometimes it results in repeated purchases of applications. How does this happen and can it be avoided?

To illustrate how the issue occurs we assume that you have two accounts; One of them is Saudi and the other American, and you permanently put the Saudi account in your device and use the American to download offers. Sometimes you update an application that you previously bought from your American account, and you are surprised that you bought it again from the Saudi account. The reason for this is that Apple's servers see that this application is not present in your current “Saudi” account, and you think that this update request is a purchase request, so you buy it for you in your Saudi account.

In order to distinguish between whether he will purchase a non-update, note that the iOS 6 system does not ask you for the password for the account registered in the device when updating applications, for example if you have applications downloaded from the US and Saudi accounts, when an update is issued, your device will update the applications downloaded from The registered account (Saudi) and it will ask you for the password for the unregistered (American) account, but if you are registered for the Saudi account and were surprised during the update that the system asks you for the password for the Saudi account, know that it requires the password to buy the application, not to update it. Here, refuse to type the password, log out of the Saudi account, register with the US account, and update applications.
The previous method is valid for iOS 6 because it upgrades the apps without asking for a password, but if you are on iOS 5 and earlier and you suffer from this problem and your balance decreases, then update by syncing with iTunes and not from the device yourself unless you remember which apps you purchased from Any account.



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