Business Apple ID

There is no reason not to use a separate AppleID for the business device, and use family sharing to share purchases and content. But you don’t actually have to. Use separate AppleIDs for iCloud, FaceTime and iMessage but use the same existing personal AppleID for the App, iTunes, Mac and iBook stores so all your purchased content is under one AppleID.

The problem with using the same, single AppleID for iCloud, FaceTime and iMessage services, is that you inherently merge all business and personal data since you’re using the same, single Apple account(s) for all those services. By using a separate AppleID for business with iCloud FaceTime and iMessage you don’t risk merging contacts, photos, messages, call histories, notes, etc.

Yours is one of the few reasonable times where two AppleIDs makes sense. You could even set up the business one without payment information so it cannot make purchases.

You can also manage storage and organization of one photo library on the Mac by just sync’ing photos over to MacOS Photo and using albums to keep things separate, but in one archive of all photos. Just make sure to never sync the entire photo library (“sync all”) in iTunes if sync’ing from the Mac to either iPhone.

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