I would like to give away my smaller game account, but I want to make sure if I give my friend the login and password for the Game Center account, it won’t somehow still be linked to my credit card.

Is that possible? Is my second Game Center email address and login its own Apple ID? I never set up payment for that account, but it still was always charged to my main account on my devices. I want to give it away, but I don’t want to see any of my friend’s purchases on my credit card.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Denise,

Sadly, we do not know of a way to have two separate gameplay associated with a single Apple ID.

Sorry that there isn’t this option–yet.

It makes it frustrating always having too change Apple ID in order to play the game when you have more the one account for these two games…. there has got too be an easier way of doing this…..please help

This works pretty well on my iPhone, but not quite as well on my iPad.
On my iPad, I’ll log out of my main account in GC, and when I go to use the alternate account info I set up in passwords, and the keyboard pops up without the key icon or anything that allows me to tap into passwords.

I can still switch accounts, but I have to type in all the info every time. B

oth the phone and the iPad run the same iOS. Weird.

Hi Joris,

Sorry, it’s not working for you. It should!

What iOS version are your devices using? To check, go to Settings > General > About > Software Version.

Another method to switch accounts is to go directly to Settings > Game Center > and toggle Game Center off OR tap the line “Use different Apple ID for Game Center” at the bottom of Game Center settings. Then sign back in with a different Apple ID.

Liz

Hi Lorelei,

I’m glad it worked for one game at least.

For Fishdom, are you connect via Facebook as well as Game Center? If so, try disconnecting the game from Facebook within the Fishdom app and then delete/reinstall the game again.

This may or may not work.

Reviewing the support center documents for Fishdom, it states the following: “You can’t start the game over on the same device. However, you can install the game on a different device to play from the beginning.”

It’s worth a shot to disconnect from Facebook and delete/reinstall the app.

Keep me posted.

Liz

Hi Liz.

Well, that was a nice try and should have worked, but it didn’t!

The game I was trying to reset is Fishdom.

It did work with another game I had on my iPad, WordCrossy, but not Fishdom.

Fishdom is/was storing data on my iPad. In fact, every game I have is storing data on my iPad. None of them are storing data in iCloud.

So I guess I’ll have to contact Fishdom and ask them to reset my game unless you have another suggestion.

Thanks, Liz.

Hi Lorelei,

Sometimes, games save to your iPad’s local storage instead of iCloud, even when you specify to save on iCloud! And there’s just no way to know ahead of time.

Also, some games do not save to iCloud at all, while others only provide this option manually.

If you don’t mind completely resetting your game, then let’s try that. This involves deleting the game from your device and reinstalling it.

Deleting the game from your iPad should remove the game stored data.

But first, let’s turn off Game Center in iCloud and then delete the game. Go to Settings > Apple ID > iCloud and toggle off Game Center.

Next, close all your open apps–in particular, your game apps!

Close an app
1. On an iPhone or an iPad with no home button from the Home screen, swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause slightly in the middle of the screen
2. On an iDevice with a home button, double-click the Home button and swipe right or left to find the app that you want to close
3. Swipe right or left to locate the app you want to close
4. Swipe up on the app’s preview to close it

Next, delete those game apps

Then go to Setting > General > iPad Storage > and find the game on the list of apps storing data locally
Tap that game app
See if it’s storing your data by looking at the size of Documents & Data
If you believe the game app is storing your data locally, choose Delete App
Repeat for any additional game apps, always checking how much data is stored in Documents & Data

Once you delete all those game apps, restart your iPad.

Finally, open the app store and reinstall the game app.

After you reinstall the app and test it out, try reconnecting Game Center with iCloud.

Go to Settings > Apple ID > iCloud
Toggle on Game Center
Toggle on iCloud Drive
Them, scroll the list of apps using iCloud and toggle on any game app you want to store data in iCloud, if applicable

Hopefully, that works!

Let me know if it works or if the problem persists!

If it doesn’t work, please let me know what game apps you want to reset back to default.

Liz

Hi Elizabeth. Thanks for getting back to me.

My iPad is/was currently configure as follows: Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud > Game Center > ON. So that was already set to “on”.

However when I go to Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud > Manage Storage there are no game apps in the list at all.

So there is nothing to delete, which seems odd since Game Center is supposed to be using iCloud.

What next?

Hi Lorelei,

Can you check if you have Game Center data stored in iCloud?

Go to Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud > and scroll down to Game Center. Is it toggled on? If not, toggle it on.

My thinking is that your game center information is currently stored locally on your device, so when you switched accounts, it mirrored what was already on your iPad rather than pulled from iCloud.

Once your game app stores your game center progress in iCloud, you can reset it back to default. Doing this removes all data for this specific game from all Apple ID connected devices that have Game Center toggled on in iCloud:

Tap on Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud
Tap on Manage Storage
Scroll the list for the game app and tap it
Select Delete Data

She passed away a couple of years ago so thought I would try using her Apple ID instead of creating a new one.

Everything went fine and I am able to log into both GC accounts without issue.

However, when I open up any of the games I play on my iPad using the new GC account, nothing has changed.

It’s like the games are seeing the device only (my iPad) and not the particular GC user.

The only thing that’s different when you open up the games is the “Welcome so-and-so” user name.

Otherwise, it’s just as if I was signed in with my regular GC account.

What I expected and hoped would happen is that I would be able to start a game over from the beginning as if I was a brand new player.

But that’s not the case.

Am I missing something here?

Or do I just not understand how all this gaming stuff works.

There is a particular game that I like a lot but it has become way too difficult and I just want to start over from the beginning.

I thought this would be the answer.

Can you shed any light on this?

I know I could try contacting the gaming company and ask them to reset the game but I was hoping I wouldn’t have to go that route. Let me know. Thanks.

Hi Pschwab,

Sorry, you lost your game progress in Game Center.

A couple of things to check:

1) Do you backup that game and Game Center with iCloud? To check, go to Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud and scroll down the list using iCloud to backup and sync data. If Game Center and/or your game app is listed and iCloud is enabled, toggle it off and then on again to force a resync. If Game Center is not enabled in iCloud but you recall it being on in the past, toggle it on and see if your game progress syncs

2) If you back up your iDevice using iTunes or iCloud, that game data may be in your backup so restoring a previous backup might bring that game progress back.

3) Contact the game app support team and see if they have a specific method to recover your game data

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Yep. I agree.

Just looked this up and thought great, when linked with website passwords it would work great.

Nope. Have to tap next and click the button and add my code and blah blah, so still quicker to just type everything in.

They could make it so much easier by allowing for the game center to store multiple ID’s with their passwords so it’s as simple as clicking the ID you want.

I don’t know why they make it so damn hard!

Game Center
Naming photos
An forget about music….

Does Apple ever take a serious survey on how many people leave Apple?

HI Devin,

Unfortunately, no. With the changes to Game Center in iOS 10 (and 11), Apple moved to allowing only one game center ID to be associated with an Apple ID. And at this time, Apple Support cannot move Game Center profiles to another Apple ID.

However, it’s possible that when you set up your Game Center ID, you associated that ID with an email address–and THAT email address is considered an Apple ID. So if you can remember what email address you used (or possibly used) AND you still have access to that email account, you may be able to retrieve the Apple ID by going to Apple’s iForgot site.

If that doesn’t work:

If you have game data that’s important to you, you can try and contact the game developer and see if they will move your game’s data to a different Apple ID–some readers report that certain games did this for them. They’ll ask for verification information to prove that the information and account are indeed yours.

One of our readers tried this, and it might work for you:

Open iCloud and turn off GameCenter. Then go to Settings > GameCenter and turn it on there. Tap Not “Your Sister’s Apple ID” and try to log into Game Center with your GC profile instead (email address.)

Hope something helps.

SK