Question about changing itunes email address

[G-Ziss]

Here is the situation:

Person 1 has an email address.

Person 2 has an itunes account and uses person's 1 email address for it (with their permission, of course).

Person 2 later changes the email address on their account to their own email address.

My question is if person 1 then sets up their own itunes account using their email address, will it cause any issues since the email address was previously associated to someone else's account?

 

[Shirasaki]

Person 2 later changes the email address on their account to their own email address.

I don’t understand this part. How’s this change happen?

 

[G-Ziss]

I don’t understand this part. How’s this change happen?

Unless something has changed recently, it is possible.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/23/how-to-change-the-email-address-linked-to-your-apple-id

 

[Shirasaki]

Well then. I think there should be of no issue at all if changing email address is still possible. As long as both addresses can be accessed, there should be no problem.

 

[NoBoMac]

Not having done this, think might run into some problems.

Generally, will want Person 1 to sign-out any devices tied to the current account out of iTunes (deauthorize) and iCloud before doing anything. At that point, you can change over the iTunes account to Person 2 address. But anything "purchased" on the iTunes account will no longer be available to e-mail address #1.

If Persons 1 & 2 are related, maybe setting up Family Sharing is the way to go, to maintain shared purchase history, but have own text messages, calendars, contacts, etc.

 

[G-Ziss]

Ah, that's a good point about family sharing. Thanks for the suggestion.