I find all this tech stuff very confusing. I have an iPhone 4 and iPad. Both kids have iPod touches and one iPod nano. And a desktop pc. I downloaded iCloud but not sure how to use it. Can each device have its own "spot" or folder in iCloud or do we all have to have each others apps and email, etc, on all devices..... My banking app does not need to be on my six year old's ipod. Anyone got any quick pointers........assume I know very little....
iPad, iOS 6.1
Welcome to the Apple Community.
To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photostream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.
You may wish to consider all using the same ID for iTunes and different ID's for iCloud, that way you keep calendars etc seperate but share music and apps. (It's not necessary to have all the apps on all the devices)
Tank you for this. My first time on this board and didn't realize you got points for my response. I should have said you answered my question..... I on,y said it helped me bc I probably have 50 other question re my I- gadgets!
iCloud multiple devices
