HT202190: Use Home Sharing to share iTunes content with other devices

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Cleavon67
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Q: Help with homesharing

My family has 4 iPhones and 2 iPads. Can we all have separate iTunes accounts and still share music and apps? Using the same user id means all info on the cloud syncs to all phones. Thanks.

iTunes home sharing, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 26, 2012 6:20 PM

by Demo,Solvedanswer
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A:

If you mean can you share purchased music and apps and use separate Apple ID's for purchases - no you cannot do that.

 

You can share one Apple ID for purchases in iTunes and the App Store and setup individual Apple ID's for FaceTime, Messages and iCloud accounts.

 

Read this for an explanation of what you can do.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/28/apples-icloud-driving-your- family-crazy-heres-how-to-restore-synching-sanity/

Posted on Dec 26, 2012 6:27 PM

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