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iPhone Tips: How to Share Apps

28 February 2010 645 views No Comment
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appsDid you know that you can actually share iPhone apps between people? As far as I know it’s 100% legal as long as the person you are sharing with approves and assists you.

Here is how it works:

  1. Open the iTunes App Store on your iPhone or iTouch.
  2. Select ’Featured’.
  3. Scroll to the bottom.
  4. Select  ’Account’.
  5. Select to sign out if you are already logged in. 
  6. Sign back in by using ‘Existing Account’.
  7. Have your friend enter their user name and password. 
  8. Hit ‘OK’
  9. Search for the app your friend had already downloaded onto their iPhone or iTouch.
  10. Select ‘Buy Now’ but understand that you will not be charged. 
  11. You will then see a message stating ‘You have purchased this application already would you like to download again for free?’.
  12. Select ’Yes’.
  13. Your friend’s application will now download and install.
  14. Go back to step one and follow through step 5 so that your friend is now logged out of your iPhone device. 

And there you have it! One downside is when an update to the shared application occurs. Your friend will have to sign in again to complete it and that can get annoying….depending of course on how close you are with your friend.

Enjoy

princess

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