Transferring 1 of 3 devices sharing an Apple ID to a new Apple ID?

Thanks Eric. Very helpful.

Based on your thoughts, my plan is to create the new appleid, use that to activate the new iPhone and then transfer the appleid of the mbp to the new appleid.

Do do you see any issues with the order of these steps? Would you suggest migrating the mbp to the new Apple ID before I touch the new phone?

I'm just having an issue. As suggested, I made two backups on two external drives and then, as per the Winston Churchill notes, I turned off of each iCloud service one at a time and saved all information on my MBP hard drive. I then turned signed out of the iCloud account (the one I plan on only using for the iPhone6 and iPad.)

I created the new AppleID and set it up on the iPhone XR with no issue.

I then went to the MBP and signed into iCloud with this new Apple ID and ran into an issue. It wouldn't let me sign in. I entered the new appleid/password...I waited and then it sent me back to the iCloud login screen and had the old appleID populated in the AppleID field. I changed this field back to the new appleID, entered the password and once again, it kicked back to the login screen with the old AppleID populated.

Am I doing something wrong?

At this point, I decided to try signing into the MBP using the old Apple ID...and it's working on signing in. It's been trying for 30+ minutes now. When I tried to close this system preferences/icloud box, the message was "System Preferences is busy and can't be closed. iCloud presences is signing you into your iCloud account."

Any ideas? Thanks.

I did sign out of the old ID in System Preferences/iCloud (I hadn't signed out of any other apple id part...messages, itunes, etc.)

I haven't tried restarting thought. When I just attempted to do so, it says that "System Preferences (which is still working on signing in to the old apple ID), interrupted the restart. Every attempt to close System Preferences results in the same "System Preferences is busy and can't be closed. iCloud presences is signing you into your iCloud account." message.

The only way I know how to turn off the MBP is to hold the power button down. Would you suggest that? I don't know any other way to shut down System Preferences. When I right click on it, there is no Force Quit option.

Thanks.

Perfect, everything went well and I now have the two separate iCloud accounts.

#1 (iPhone 6) and #2 (iPad) on one iCloud account, and #3 (MBP) and #4 (iPhone XR) on another. Thanks again. I'm having difficulty with one last step.

I had 32,000 photos on #3, these are now also copied onto #4.

I noticed that #1 and #2 still have 34,000 photos. (initially #1, 2 and 3 were all on the same iCloud account. I really don't have a good explanation as to why there are 2000 additional photos on #1 and 2 that weren't on #3)

Ultimately, what I'd like to accomplish is to remove the 32,000 photos on #1 and #2...these devices are going to kids and they now that there is a separate iCloud account on these devices, they can start with a fresh slate. If this is possible, that allows me to isolate the 2,000 additional pictures and transfer the ones I want to keep to #3 and #4. I have two questions:

1) What is the step needed to remove the photos from #1 and #2

2) Is there a way to only remove the 32,000 photos, leaving the 2,000 for me to look at separately?

Thanks again.

Lee

Thanks. Yes, #3 and #4 have 32,000 photos. #1 and #2 have these same 32,000 photos and another 2,000 photos. I'm trying to delete the 32,000 on #1 and #2 (duplicates) and isolate the remaining 2,000 photos on these same devices. Then, I'd like to review those 2,000 photos and keep the ones I still want before I delete all of them. (if that's possible.)

On the "selling/giving away device", I could definitely wipe the iPhone 6 completely...but if it isn't necessary, I'd like to keep the iPad as is, with the exception of removing the photos.

if I hear you correctly, the only way to delete photos from #1 and #2 (which will also remove them from the iCloud account associated with this apple ID) is to either:

1) to go "photos" in each of #1 and #2, select all and "delete"

2) wipe the devices

and that to isolate the 2,000 pictures, I pretty much have to manually delete the 32,000...or at a minimum have devices with the two libraries side by side and look for the differences that way.

Do I understand that correctly? Thanks

Lee