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can I have more than one apple id?

Can I have more than one apple ID?

Posted on Oct 20, 2016 9:36 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2016 9:40 AM

Yes, you can have as many as you would like. Each must have its own unique email address as primary of course. And purchases made on one are not transferrable to another, nor can any two be merged later on. You also cannot transfer or merge content between iCloud accounts created with separate AppleIDs.

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Oct 20, 2016 9:50 AM in response to Michael Black

I have 4 apple devices, 2 iPads, an iPhone and a mac mini. One of the iPads I've given to my 88 year old dad to use, mainly so he can see pictures I want to share. My cloud is full because I'm now on the same ID for all devices and I've been purchasing extra space every month. I would like to take most of the pictures off my own iPhone and iPad. If I give him his own ID will all the shared stuff we currently have disappear from his iPad? Can I change his ID back to my own if I don't like it once we give him his own? Thank you for advice

Oct 20, 2016 9:40 AM in response to Lou63m

You can have more than one iTunes account, but only one account can be logged in at any one time - it's generally best to have just the one account, all content that you download is permanently tied to that account (so only that account can do in-app purchases in an app, download updates to them, potentially redownload them, and authorise them on a new computer's iTunes)

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