Multiple iCloud Accounts?

i currently only have one, my wife and i were using the same one for many, many years. all of our purchases are through that one account. Quite A few updates back, it started to merge our contacts, so we shut off the icloud function, and its been fine until about 3 updates ago, now all of our calls and missed calls are instantly merged on our phones. we share purchases, and calendars and reminders and notes, along with email accounts and other goodies, but it drives us nuts to see that i missed a call from myself. so i'm wondering how i set up a new icloud account to segregate our contacts and calls, but keep access to purchases. Also, we just got my daughter a phone, and we really want to segregate her phone from ours, but allow her access to our purchases. Looking for info and help!

The easiest way is to use an "iDevice". Follow the instructions below:

Go to the Settings app and into the iCloud section.

Delete the account if it's already signed in (don't worry, you'll sign back in later)

Choose Create an Apple ID

Fill out the form and then choose Create an @me.com email

Hope this helps

You can create the third apple id, but there is no way that I know of to log into more than one iCloud account at one time on a device. Signing into iCloud automatically creates the account in Mail. So, you would have to sign out of one to sign into the other.

You could log into iCloud.com website with the "ours" account. Put a bookmark to the iCloud website and you can both access it there, while accessing your main iCloud account in Mail. This would be a good option if you don't mind webmail. Of course, there will be no syncing anything else this way, but you could still read common mail there.

You could also just get another email account such as gmail and use that for your together account. This would probably be the easiest solution. Set it up on both devices as IMAP and everything will stay in sync.

For multiple iCloud email addresses belonging to the same apple id, but not separate apple ids, they will all go to the iCloud account. You can only have one main address per apple id, but you can create 3 aliases to the account. Problem is they will all be under the 1 iCloud account in the message list and you will have to look at the address sent to to know which one it is. You could create a rule to move messages of a particular address to another folder or a smart mailbox to show messages to a specific address if that's a problem.

You can definitely sign into more than one iCloud account on a Mac and an iDevice. The primary one should be set up in Settings > iCloud. This should be the account you would like to use for photostream and primary syncing (in the OPs case "Mine@me.com"). Other iCloud accounts can be set up under Settings > Mail, Contacts & Calendars > Add Account > iCloud. These accounts can also be used to sync everything but photostream.

Remember to set your default calendar and contacts for when you're adding events and contacts since you'll now have multiple accounts for each.

This can also be done on a Mac. If you wanted to have more than one iCloud account set up for a single user account on a Mac, it's very much the same process (System Preferences > iCloud (for primary) or Mail, Contacts & Calendars for others). Any non-primary iCloud accounts set up this way can only sync Mail, Contacts and Calendars.

You're correct. Athough you can only sign into one iCloud account, I didn't realize you could add another in that way through the Mail, Contacts, & Calendars icon. Added my wife's iCloud account to my computer with mine and it worked great. Never too old to learn something new.

Thanks Jingster

To TosaDeac

I said no way I new of to do that. Guess I was wrong.