Q: Family sharing & two Apple IDs
I have two AppleIDs - one for my iCloud (email etc) and a second for all Store purchases. I share the Store AppleID with my kids' iPads so that we can share purchases as per this recommendation ( Using your Apple ID for Apple services ). And that has worked 100% for years :-)
So today I'm trying to set up family sharing - I _think that I need to share the 2nd AppleID account - the store one right - so that all my existing purchases are accessible?
Trouble is that when I set up Family Sharing on my iPhone, it defaults to the AppleID I set ios8 up with - in this case, my iCloud email AppleID.
So to change that, I need to log out of iCloud and log in again with my other ID (the Store purchases AppleID) in order to share it on Family Sharing...
But I've stopped at this step ... if I do this, will I be able to back out again and change my default iCloud account back to my primary (email) one ??
Am I missing a trick here because surely loads of people have used the two AppleID approach to share purchases with other devices ?
Thanks for any info :-)
tim
Posted on Sep 18, 2014 5:39 AM