zadygirl
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Q: Can you run 2 apple IDs on one computer?

Over the years since iPhones/iPads came out I've managed to have 3 apple IDs. The first one was for iTunes until the phone came out and we created our own me.com accounts. So the desktop still has that original iTunes ID, my iPhone/iPad/laptop have my ID that's different. Is it possible to run both IDs on the desktop? I would like all 4 devices to be synced via the cloud but I don't want to lose everything on the original ID because the whole family uses the iTunes account on that one. I hope this all makes sense!

Thanks,

Jeri

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 8:57 AM

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Q: Can you run 2 apple IDs on one computer?

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  • by dialabrain,Helpful

    dialabrain dialabrain Feb 5, 2016 9:05 AM in response to zadygirl
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    Feb 5, 2016 9:05 AM in response to zadygirl

    You can have multiple Apple IDs. But you can only log into one at a time.

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    zadygirl zadygirl Feb 5, 2016 9:08 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Feb 5, 2016 9:08 AM in response to dialabrain

    Thank you dialabrain this is good news. I don't mind logging in to only one at a time. I work as a genealogist and so I use all 4 items all of the time. Sometimes I just want to sit at the "big screen" computer and not always use the laptop or the iPad pro even though they are newer! May I please ask how to set up the other ID on the desktop? I'm not computer illiterate but not a genius either

     

    Thank you!

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Feb 5, 2016 9:12 AM in response to zadygirl
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    Feb 5, 2016 9:12 AM in response to zadygirl

    Actually there is nothing to "set up". You just log out of one Apple ID in the App Store or iTunes Store or iCloud etc. and log in with whichever you want to use.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Feb 5, 2016 9:27 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Feb 5, 2016 9:27 AM in response to dialabrain

    Just a simple example, you could logout of this forum and log in with one of your other Apple IDs.

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    zadygirl zadygirl Feb 5, 2016 10:43 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Feb 5, 2016 10:43 AM in response to dialabrain

    Ill give it a try. It seems like I tried this once and it warned me I'd lose all of my information but that may have been on the iPhone/iPad. I wondered if I could set a different user ID besides the admin and then chose to log in to which ever one I wanted. I'll try it now!

    Thank you,

    Jeri

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Feb 5, 2016 10:52 AM in response to zadygirl
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    Feb 5, 2016 10:52 AM in response to zadygirl

    well if you log out of iCloud you will get a warning to the affect that files will be removed local to your computer. However, when you re-log in with the previous ID it will sync to your iCloud account.