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I have an iPhone with my apple account that is connected to my mac and my sister has here iPad with her own account. She has no computer at the moment so she wanted to update her iPad using my iTunes. Is it possible to have multiple accounts in iTunes and how can I incorporate her iPad into my iTunes for her to be able to update her iPad? Thanks.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Yes. You can have two separate iTunes accounts and two separate iTunes libraries on the same computer. You must tap the SHIFT key when start iTunes , it will then ask you which library to choose and you go from there. It is a lot easier just to use two separate computers or use the same iTunes library and a series of smart playlists to separate content but it is possible to keep everything separate. |
Yes. You can have two separate iTunes accounts and two separate iTunes libraries on the same computer. You must tap the SHIFT key when start iTunes , it will then ask you which library to choose and you go from there. It is a lot easier just to use two separate computers or use the same iTunes library and a series of smart playlists to separate content but it is possible to keep everything separate. |
You can have multiple iTunes libraries on one computer, using the method that Tom described above, or by having you sister create her own user account on the Mac.
But, you still have to make the new iTunes library your sisters own syncing library or iTunes will want to erase everything on the device because you can only sync the content that is in iTunes. So if your sister starts with an empty iTunes library, it will sync no content at all.
However, you can transfer her iPad content into her iTunes library on your Mac and this user tip will tell you how to do that for her.
Thanks guys for the help... 🙂
You can not unpdate an ipad on your itunes in less you want your apps on the iphone will go on the ipad and will be hard to update every time you try to upadte the iphone or the ipad.
You're welcome!
I had posted this in the "iTunes for Windows" category and then later found these postings under iPad>using iPad category. I think my posting is more relevant to this discussion. I hope I will not be faulted for a duplicate posting. Perhaps the Moderator can remove one.
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Multiple accounts in 1 iTunes
