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2 iClouds, 2 iPhones, 1 Mac, 1 address book...lion

Hello,

Has anyone here setup using two iCloud accounts (for two different users) on one Mac etc yet? I want to know how it works.

- I have my iPhone, and I sync my calender from iCal to iCloud and my contacts to iCloud (Safari on my Mac and my iPhone with iOS5)

- My girlfriend will be using iOS5 on her iPhone, and sharing my calender (which I will share from my iCloud) and syncing her contacts to her own iCloud (She uses Firefox)

- We currently use the same address book, but with groups setup for my contacts and her contacts. After getting iCloud setup on my iPhone last night, I now have her contacts on my phone too, but I just view me group (which works fine).

My question is will there be any syncing issues when she connects her iPhone up (it's not on iOS5 just yet) and iTunes starts to look and sync at Lion (with iCloud update) address book?

Sorry this is a little confusing, basically, will this work between one mac, two iphones and two iClouds? We don't want to lose our contacts, but we do want to seperate iCloud accounts.

thanks!!

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:41 AM

18 replies

Oct 16, 2011 7:54 AM in response to Paul Lovell2

I just upgraded my iMac to the newest Lion and in AddressBook, under preferences/accounts is a sharing option. It offers "MobileMe", though, and not "iCloud", so not sure yet if this is going to work. I want to share contacts with my wife, and it's all very confusing on how to do this in the conversion from MobileMe to iCloud. Nice job, Apple.

Oct 17, 2011 2:12 PM in response to Couchcowboy

I just switched my MobileMe acct to iCloud and the AddressBook sharing pref disappeared.

I've also read that the shared iCloud account and two private iCloud accounts confuses Siri, if you're using an iPhone 4S. Don't have one myself, so wouldn't know.

mrcree

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Nov 6, 2011 10:42 AM in response to MacFriend

Dear MacFriend, I think the question for me is how to sync the MAC, if there is only one in the househould. Under preferences, users can log-in and log-out with their own accounts.

2 iClouds, 2 iPhones, 1 Mac, 1 address book...lion