HT204053 How can I have 3 iCloud accounts and keep all pictures, contacts, messages separate ?

Question

I have one Apple account and would like to use iCloud. I would like to have 3 iCloud accounts. One for each person in my family. One person has an iPhone3gs, one has a iPhone 4, and I have a iPad and an iPhone 4s. I would like all pictures, contacts, messages to stay separate for each user.
Can this be done?

Answer 1

Welcome to the Apple community.
To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud.
You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photosstream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.
To avoid confusion when discussing your problem, when I mention iCloud, I am referring to the services under the iCloud login, Whereas I will refer to the whole cloud thing as The Cloud.
I suspect what you are wanting to do is all share the same account for iTunes and each use your own accounts for iCloud.