should my fiancé and I have separate icloud accounts or should we use the same one, with two different calendar options?
iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4, Conflicting calendar detail?
Separate is better. Two iTunes accounts, two Apple IDs, and two computers.
In most cases it's preferable to have separate iCloud accounts. If you don't, all your synced data is merged; any changes made on any device appears on the others; you share the same photo stream; you share the same 5GB of iCloud storage for your synced data and backups; and you share the same iCloud email account.
If there is specific data that you want to share such as calendars, contacts, reminders or notes, that can be accomplished while still keeping your other data separated. To do this, you can create a shared secondary account in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud, then turn on the data you want to sync with the shared account.
Thanks for the responses everyone- I agree that separate is better, but we share the same music and iMac. She has a Kindle for other uses and we each have iPhones. I am trying to have our calendars sync, so our schedules are in line with eachother. I will try randers4 idea- thanks again everyone:)
You're welcome.
The issue stems from adding her gmail account, which I was able to sync simply to my iPhone. When I added a second iPhone to the mix, the calendar syncing was lost somehow? I will give this a shot. Well wishes and thanks again--
In case you are trying to use iCloud to sync a Gmail calendar, you should be aware that iCloud will only sync calendars in the iCloud account. It will not sync a Gmail calendar. To do that, just add the Gmail account to all your devices, enable calendar syncing with Gmail, then be sure in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Defaut Calendar you have selected your Gmail calendar as your default.
should my fiancé and I have separate icloud accounts or should we use the same one, with two different calendar options?
