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User profile for user: Cleavon67
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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-OTHER, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 26, 2012 6:20 PM

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User profile for user: Johnathan Burger
Johnathan Burger
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Posted on Dec 26, 2012 6:23 PM

All media and apps are tied to the Apple ID that downloaded them.

If you want the massive headache of keeping track of multiple passwords and what ID was used to download what-go ahead and share stuff across devices.

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User profile for user: Demo
Demo
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Dec 26, 2012 6:27 PM in response to Cleavon67

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/

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