My daughter has an iPod Touch. She can use the WiFi capability on our home network. However, when she goes to the iTunes Store, it automatically prompts her to login using my email address. I don’t know how her iPod even knows my email address, maybe iTunes is somehow reading it off the iTunes app on my computer.
How can I set her up to login with her own userid? The screen just shows an email address and a password box, no apparent way to retype the email address.
Who’s PC does she maintain her library on?
It should be linked to whatever computer is being used to sync her music. Which computer is used for that?
Well, it’s mine, but how does the iTunes store know that, or even care? It should just do the download to the iPod and not even know if there are other computers on the network. Well, OK, I won’t confuse “does” and “should.” Does it really look on the network and talk to all the iTunes instances to see which one has synced that iPod? What happens if it’s more than one?
The apps you have on your computer get downloaded to your itouch once you connect the itouch to your computer. The account information was probably transferred with the apps.
If you never transferred any apps to the itouch, then the info probably transferred when you synced the itouch to the computer with your account.
It has nothing to do with the network. The iPod gets the iTunes Store account information from the instance of iTunes the device syncs with.
Yeah it has nothing to do with the network. Your ipod is linked to whatever itunes you synch it to, which is linked to whatever email account you buy music with in that itunes program. How did you expect your daughter to be able to download new things without a method of making the purchase?
Think of it this way: she’s already using your iTunes. Would you expect her to be able to download something in your itunes without it thinking it was going to bill you?
There is a way to change the iTunes account you’re logged into on the iPod. Go to Settings, Store, hit sign out, and then there’s an option to create a new account, or sign into an existing one. In order to sync it, though, I think she would have to log into her own account in iTunes, and I think any music she put on there that was purchased with your iTunes account would be erased.