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Two iPhones with same Apple ID and want two separate icloud accounts.

I have two iPhones both of which are set up with the same Apple ID. How can I set up separate icloud accounts for each phone? My phone has same email for Apple ID and icloud account. I wants wife's phone to have icloud set up with her own email account. Right now her phone keeps automatically reverting to my email address for icloud.

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 22, 2013 8:32 PM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2017 10:38 PM

I have same problem, two phones that have same ID + password for iCloud & AppStore. Need to separate them, so each has his own iCloud and access to the store. HOW to do without loosing contacts pictures etc ?
Please detailed steps, as all data is important for each. Thanks in advance
Karni

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Mar 18, 2017 10:38 PM in response to randers4

I have same problem, two phones that have same ID + password for iCloud & AppStore. Need to separate them, so each has his own iCloud and access to the store. HOW to do without loosing contacts pictures etc ?
Please detailed steps, as all data is important for each. Thanks in advance
Karni

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Mar 19, 2017 6:21 AM in response to Karni Grunberg

I am NOT looking for "family sharing", on the contrary - I look for separating completely 2 iPhones, giving each a separate ID & password (to iCloud & App Store).
Can I please have detailed explanation for the process, not loosing contacts and photos, and how to create new IDs & passwords ?
Do I need to do a backup on both phones first ?
I know its complicated, but I need this done soonest (It was done by an ignorant seller...)
Appreciate any help soon

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Aug 8, 2017 12:20 AM in response to Who's da manning

Q:Two iPhones with same Apple ID and want two separate icloud accounts.


I have two iPhones both of which are set up with the same Apple ID. How can I set up separate icloud accounts for each phone? My phone has same email for Apple ID and icloud account. I wants wife's phone to have icloud set up with her own email account. Right now her phone keeps automatically reverting to my email address for icloud.




iPhone 5S, iPhone 7,

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Mar 19, 2017 9:45 PM in response to Karni Grunberg

Without a Mac, it will be more challenging.


Can't provide step by step details for you. You will need to export all the content you want to split up somewhere off your phones.


Then import back to each of your phones.


Without knowing what apps you may have on your Windows PC, I don't know how to guide you.


You can start here >> Archive or make copies of your iCloud data - Apple Support


You may want consider offering to pay someone in your area to help you with this.

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Mar 19, 2017 6:54 AM in response to randers4

Sorry, I received a wrong answer by someone who mislead me ....
Hope you - randers4 - can help - - -


I am NOT looking for "family sharing", on the contrary - I look for separating completely 2 iPhones 6 , giving each a separate ID & password (to iCloud & App Store).

Can I please have detailed explanation for the process, step by step, not loosing contacts and photos, and how to create new IDs & passwords ?

Do I need to do a backup on both phones first ?

I know its complicated, but I need this done soonest (It was done by an ignorant seller on purchasing two iPhone 6...)

Appreciate any help soon

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Mar 19, 2017 11:39 AM in response to Karni Grunberg

So it sounds like you have intermingled photos and contact data on 2 phones and want to separate them.


There is no automatic process for this. And easy is not the same as simple. I will say it's simple, but not easy. IMO, backups will not be the way to go.


Do you have a Mac available to help with this?


If so, I believe one "best" way is to move all the data you want to separate on to your Mac. Then use the Mac's apps and tools for Contacts and Photos to export phone A's content separately to phone A and phone B's content to phone B.


Manually is the way to go.

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Mar 20, 2017 8:21 AM in response to Karni Grunberg

You haven't really provided enough detail to answer this. Providing more detail would help. Right now I continue to make guesses as to what you need and want to do.


I have assumed a while ago that you have 2 phones with identical photos and contacts on each phone and that they using the same Apple ID.


Is that correct?


If so, backing each up will simply reproduce the content on each when you restore. Getting you right back to where you are right now.


Using iCloud for backups ties the backup to an Apple ID, so you can't back up John's phone and restore it to Mary's. Even if you removed some of the content and then backed up, you can't sign out of iCloud to do th "other" backup without removing all of the content.


It needs to be done manually.


When you back up a phone using either iCloud or iTunes, the backup is a closed file, and you can't go in and remove content from it before restoring.

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Mar 21, 2017 12:15 AM in response to LACAllen

I think I have... I repeat:
No MAC only PC that can sign in into any cloud.
2 iPhone 6, two people with different needs of contacts & pictures unfortunately have same ID & pass for the cloud and store.
Now want to separate - each to have his own ID&password to the cloud & store. Then, each wants to have only HIS contacts and pictures.

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Sep 22, 2013 8:40 PM in response to Who's da manning

To migrate to a separate account she will have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password for the current account to turn off Find My iPhone when prompted (if she's running iOS 7), choose Keep on My iPhone (to keep a copy of the iCloud data on her phone), then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create her new account and choose Merge to upload the data to the account. (Deleting the account only deletes it from her phone, not from iCloud. This won't effect your phone.)


Once she's on a separate account, you can each sign into your account on icloud.com and delete the other person's data from your account.

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