{"id":39051,"date":"2023-04-13T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39051"},"modified":"2023-04-13T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:01:56","slug":"checking-the-real-apple-account-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/13\/checking-the-real-apple-account-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking the Real Apple Account Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2023\/03\/apples-app-store-apple-account-balance.html\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2023\/03\/apples-app-store-apple-account-balance.html\"><p>His account [in the Mac App Store] shows $150 as a balance, but that&rsquo;s wrong. If you click on Profile and drill down to this Accounts page (requires authentication) you will see the correct amount of $135.37. Evidently the amount displayed on the App Store screen is copied there from another system and there&rsquo;s a time lag. In my testing I&rsquo;ve found that the lag is at least a day and I suspect it only updates when one checks the Apple Account (requires authentication). So, in reality, the Apple Account is the only way to know this number.<\/p><p>Apple doesn&rsquo;t mention this, but you can also get to this Accounts page (which has the accurate numbers) from iTunes\/Music. You can&rsquo;t get to it from the web however; appleid.apple.com doesn&rsquo;t have this data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve also found the displayed balance to often be stale and inconsistent among different devices and apps.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gordon: His account [in the Mac App Store] shows $150 as a balance, but that&rsquo;s wrong. If you click on Profile and drill down to this Accounts page (requires authentication) you will see the correct amount of $135.37. Evidently the amount displayed on the App Store screen is copied there from another system and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-13T19:01:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b9c6101-b54a-4cbb-9505-fd8404eaf8bc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-13T19:01:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO5xhAbVKTLuVBf2EBOr4vA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[707,131,1015,30,39,2223,169],"class_list":["post-39051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-id","tag-bug","tag-family-sharing","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-payments"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39052,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39051\/revisions\/39052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}