Two iPhones plus iCloud = confusion

Eagle.... YES it worked painlessly!!

I did sinc my icloud to outlook and other than double downloading some emails it seems to be okay... although now I wanna snag my husbands macbook and give him the pc. LOL

I shared my calendar in icloud with him and now he can see all my appointments, it's a wonderful thing!

Thanks so much for your help! I was scared to upgrade his iphone until I read your comments!

nap0leon wrote:

@TravisB

Use separate Apple IDs and each phone can backup to the iCloud. Use the same iTunes account for shared purchases.

The only thing you wont have is a shared photostream or calendar.

You can easly share calendars between iCloud accounts, so that is even less of an issue. The only real loss would be the shared photostream, and you may have a way around that too.

What if you create one "Master" iCloud account. In this account, you place everythign you want to share with all devices. You may even want to use the iTunes ID as this iCloud account name to keep it simple. Next, for each device you create its own iCloud account. Now, on all devices, you go into "Settings"->"iCloud" and select your "Master" account name. Here you turn on all the features you want to share with all devices (including photostream). Alsoturn off the features you don't want shared from the "Master" account to this device. Next, go into "Settngs"->"Mail, Contacts Calendars" and "Add Account..." Select "iCloud" as the type and enter the device's own iCloud account name. In there, you can turn on all the local features you want to access from the device's own account, like the addressbook, calendars, etc.

The only drawback I see here is that this method would keep all the family devices using the shared "Master" account for their iCloud Backups if you choose to backup to the cloud. f you are willing to lose the shared PhotoStream, you can reverse, setup the devices iCloud account in the iCloud settings, and setup the shared "Master" account in the additional account. This will still give you some shared features, and some device specific features. It just depend upon which is more imprtant to you how you choose your primary iCloud account.

Think iCloud account and iTunes account. Those are two separate things. You can use a different iTunes account name than you use for your iCloud account name. Each iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad can have it's own iCloud account, and still share a single iTunes account if you so desire.

I understand all these replies regarding iPhone, iPod and iPad having separate iCloud accounts, but how do you share one MAC with other family users? For example, there is only one calendar, account book, to do list, etc on the MAC. Does each member of the family need to set up a separate log-in?

My husband and I had that same issue. We both have iPhones and we each have our own email account, but we share the same calendar and address book. When we set up on our calendars on our Mac, we set up our calendars separately. We have several calendars: his calendar, my calendar, vacation calendar, etc... Make sure that each family member has their own calendar. When you set up your email on each of your phones, select calendars and notes, if you use notes. Be sure go select which calendar is the default calendar so when you create a calendar event on your phone, it will be created under your calendar name. Once you set up your email exit setting and to go calendar. Under the calendars section (upper left hand corner if you have Lion) you will see a listing of all the calendars for each person on your calendar, i.e., you, your wife, your child, etc. In other words, you entire calendar with everyone's dates. If you want to see only your individual calendar dates, uncheck those calendars that you do not want to appear on your phone.

You can add several iCloud accounts in the "Mail, Contacts, and Calendars" section of system preferences. Add new, select iCloud, and if you have already made the apple ID then type in the user and pass. If not, there is a button there to create the new apple ID.

Yeah, but I want a shared calendar and shared photostream.

we are in a little different situation. My sister and I both have ipod touches and we both have a different apple id. Whenever she connects her ipod to the computer it load all of my apps, music, podcasts, and other data to her ipod and the other way around. We dont have shared acounts so how do you stop this

My husband and I were using the same iCloud account; our contacts merged, and disappeared as some were deleted by one of us, etc. as described in above posts. The iTunes account can be the same is my understanding.

Before I change the iCloud account on one of the iPhones, I would like confirmation from someone that I won't be wiping out data on the phone whose iCloud address is being changed.

1. Will the contacts and all remain?

2. Or should I turn off the iCloud on each area before deleting the account and creating a new one?

Question: To change the iCloud setting, do I DELETE the iCloud account at the bottom of the scrren the Settings screen? Then what? How do I log in with a new account? Will creating a new account influence the data on the phone using the original iCloud account? For now, iCloud is shut off on each phone for "contacts." Thanks muchly.

Same issue here, isn't just turning off iMessage the easiest method to fix the shared text messages? I really don't care about the contacts issues. Maybe I'm missing something. I like the idea of one iCloud account to share pics and calendar.

I am having the very same issue, 2 phones want to share I tunes purchase and music only rest is seperate, worked before so why now and why do I have to fix it wasting my time.

I have turned off every thing related to icloud and I message, telstra said it not there issue. Since upgrade, itunes not working on phone, safari not working, lots of butons cant be slid to off position either.