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I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about Apple Account purchase migration over the last couple of days, and I suspect Apple’s support folks have too. To help clarify things, Apple has updated its documentation, as spotted by Zac Hall. Apple has expanded things to look at if you’re unable to migrate:

• Neither Apple Account can be a child account created through Family Sharing.
• Neither Apple Account can already be used for migrated purchases. Learn how to undo a migration of purchases. If you undo a migration of purchases from a secondary account, you won’t be able to migrate purchases again for 1 year.
• You can’t migrate purchases if both the primary Apple Account and the secondary Apple Account have music library data associated with each of them.
• You can’t migrate purchases if you’ve set your Apple One subscription to provide iCloud storage to a third, different account. Learn about Apple One and iCloud storage.
• If your primary account has never been used for purchases or free downloads, you can’t migrate purchases.
• You can’t migrate purchases from an Apple Account that’s been deleted or deactivated.
• You can’t migrate purchases if your Apple Account is locked or disabled. Learn what to do if your Apple Account is locked or disabled.
• Neither Apple Account can be receiving any special access to apps or content. For example, an Apple Account enrolled in the VPP program through an employer to receive special access to apps.
• 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.

The list of things to do before a migration has also been updated:

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On today’s episode of Under the Radar, Underscore and Marco put into words something I’ve been struggling with for a while. The whole thing is spot-on.

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Tim Cook, on X:

Get ready to meet the newest member of the family.

Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch

Is this an M4 MacBook Air, or as John Gruber suggests, a total revamp of the iPhone SE? Something else?

Speaking of Gruber, don’t miss his post on Apple’s ads popping up on X after a year-long hiatus. I guess Apple wants to keep our new prime minister Elon Musk happy.

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This week on the world’s greatest podcast:

Stephen thinks he deserves a new title for changing the world, Stephen has a new page on his blog, and Stephen ordered Merri some new headphones. Also: Federico has a theory and Myke is in a new group chat.

[On Connected Pro,] I uncover a mystery in Ticci’s garage.

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Aisling Mäki, with some much-needed good news:

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has partnered with the World Health Organization to distribute life-saving cancer medicines to children in countries with lower pediatric cancer survival rates.

The partners first announced the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines in 2021 to get lifesaving treatments to children around the world.

On Tuesday, Feb. 11, St. Jude and WHO said they’d begun delivering medicines to pilot countries Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with the next shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia.

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At the urging of David Sparks, there’s a new page up on 512 Pixels. I intend to update it a couple of times a month.

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Apple Support, in a new support article dated today:

If an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated to a primary Apple Account to consolidate them.

Connected listeners will know I recently went through an ordeal with my setup because I was not using my primary Apple Account for purchases.¹ There are a lot of steps to this process, but it’s great to see Apple have a tool for folks wanting leave a legacy Apple Account behind.

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After months of rumors, Apple has released a new version of its Powerbeats Pro earbuds.

My wife Merri is a huge user of the original Powerbeats and when I told her new ones were coming, she did something very unusual — she asked me to order her a pair on launch day. So we’ve got a set of Hyper Purple heading our way. She’ll be on a future episode of Connected with her review, but for now, Chance Miller’s review is a great read. With the H2 and a suite of new features, I think there are going to be a big hit for folks who like this form factor.

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I opened Logic earlier today to edit an interview for Relay members, and was presented with this ad for the iPad version of the app:

I have no problem with advertising to support content or even apps, but a pop-up in a professional tool like Logic feels like a step too far.

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Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.

By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web.

As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. And it’s been designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.

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🚨 Breaking News: On this episode, David and Stephen dive into Apple’s vast sea of notification settings. They also cover best practices and where Apple has gotten things wrong. Open this alert to hear more!

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This blog post by Doug Brown blew my mind a little:

This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a crash and saved the day by executing an undefined instruction.

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