Deactivating Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo

[Pat Leong]

Hi there, I am selling my M1 Macbook Air which my Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo are currently installed. Do I need to deactivate them before restoring my Macbook Air to factory settings? Please advise. Best, Pat

[PaulEC]

Hi @Pat Leong, Welcome to the forums.

You don't need to deactivate the apps. They do need to be removed from your old Macbook (they are not transferable to another user), but I'm assuming that restoring the factory settings will do that. If you want to install the apps on a new Mac you will need to go to the store (Affinity or Mac) you purchased them from originally and download/install from there on your new Mac. If you are going over to Windows, unfortunately the apps are not transferable between operating systems, so you would need to purchase the Windows versions. 

[Pat Leong]

Thank you PaulEC for your advice. I am staying with Mac so which makes things easier to manage.

[PaulEC]

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[walt.farrell]

Before resetting the iPad, you might want to open. My Account and make sure you've signed-out. That will remove the iPad from the list of registered applications in your Affinity Store account. If you do the reset while you're signed-in, I think the iPad apps will show up in your Registered list forever. That will not cause any problems, but might feel a little messy to you.

[Pat Leong]

Thanks walt.farrell.

[jhonan]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Before resetting the iPad, you might want to open. My Account and make sure you've signed-out. That will remove the iPad from the list of registered applications in your Affinity Store account. If you do the reset while you're signed-in, I think the iPad apps will show up in your Registered list forever. That will not cause any problems, but might feel a little messy to you.

If you sign out of the desktop versions, will the devices be removed from the registered list, or is it the case that when you log in on a new device it gets added to the list forever? - I have a mac in a different location I need to use Publisher on temporarily, but I don't want it stuck in my 'registered devices' list forever.

[walt.farrell]

The device and app are added to the list when you sign-in to My Account within the app, and removed when you sign-out.