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Nov 5, 2015 4:51 PM in response to joyfromburr ridgeby John45,Hi! This will be great if both my wife and I can add to, delete and edit my calendars and contacts. Before my wife creates her own Apple ID/iCloud account, can you tell me if that will be possible?
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Nov 5, 2015 5:09 PM in response to John45by Peter Thomson,If you use the same iCloud account, you can't use Find My Friends. Here is what my family does, and it has worked for us.
Everyone has their own iCloud account. For apps and music, the family is connected via Family sharing to my account. We use the family calendar to share family events.
My wife turned off Calendar and Contacts on her iCloud.
She then added my iCloud account and turned on only Contacts and Calendar. This lets us share contacts and calendars, and we can fully edit the same info. The only problem is the glitch with the "My Card" as mentioned in earlier posts. My wife's phone thinks she is me. If she sets "My Card" to herself, my phone will also switch. (Well, this was an issue before. I haven't checked after the latest OS release. And my wife doesn't care if her phone thinks she is me.)
Best wishes.
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Nov 6, 2015 5:52 AM in response to Peter Thomsonby duckndilly,We had the same 'Me' issue with Apple ID's.
the solution was pretty straightforward.
we set up a dummy Apple ID which contains all our contacts bar ourselves.
Each individual family member has only themselves and the other family sharing members in their own Apple contacts, the main bulk of contacts populate from adding the dummy account as cloud contacts only.
everyone's own device will always recognise them as 'me' and all the shared contacts will be available to everyone.
Calendar sharing was by one individual and shares to the dummy account as well. this was only done to get both contacts and calendar shares in MS outlook on a windows PC.
hope that helps
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Jul 4, 2016 2:17 AM in response to zman999by David Hardman,Sharing one iCloud account no longer works well. iCloud does much more than it used to (like keychain) and now causes all sorts of problems if you make all your devices have the same primary account to share contacts.
gmail seems to be the only solution but not an ideal solution.
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Aug 9, 2016 12:46 PM in response to maskgascby thetaxman,Brilliant! Thank you. This worked perfectly, and took only a few seconds to do. Well done. I chose to select Calendars too, and those all shared beautifully too.