Back to my mac multiple iCloud accounts

Is there a way to have multiple icloud accounts on one mac so to connect to other users via "Back to my Mac"?
When it was mobile me we use to have one ID we used at the office so all the computers were networked together even when working from home.
Now that it has switched to icloud everyone has their own account and cant use the Back to my mac feature anymore.
I have tried to add other accounts under user and groups/apple ID/+ add another account and when you enter the info it just disappears.

+1 - This is really a big step back as it sits. My reference point as a sysadmin is that the User and at least one other "person" or account should be able to be used. I hope this feature is coming back as I having found a way to get "Back to my (users) Mac" nor to "Find my (users) Mac" without compomising security and sharing an account.

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Back to My Mac and multiple iCloud accounts

I have an iMac at home and a Macbook I travel with. Previously I had just one mobileme account, and BTMM has worked like a champ. I now have multiple iCloud accounts in my household, as my wife mostly uses the iMac and I have the macbook. I very much enjoy the seemless sharing of iCal calendars and the syncing of email accounts over multiple macs and mobile devices. Trouble is to make BTMM work you have to enter preferences-->iCloud and log both computers into the same iCould account. Surely apple must have forseen this sort of problem. I as an indivdual if you have TWO computers and no one else uses them, it's no big deal to have everything on one iCloud account. But with multiple users, with multiple email accounts, that's just not realistic. I thought I may have found the work around when going to System Prefs-->Users & Groups-->and adding multilple Apple User IDs, but that doesn't work.
Any one else frustrated with this? Similar issues with Photo Stream, it would be nice to view other photo streams. Anybody got any ideas? Other than logging out of my iCloud account when away....getting all the warnings about deleting stuff off my mac with regard to iCloud..... and logging into my wifes iCloud account?
thanks
x

I share this frustration. Over last weekend I needed to leave my computer at home while we went across the country to visit family. I found out there I needed to access my computer and finish an item before I was to return. We brought my wife's MBAir with us just in case, and good thing too. Either way, I was required to sign out of iCloud for her, then sign in as myself. This deleted all her iCloud contacts, calendar, mail, etc. Then it had to reload mine, then when finished i had to do that process all over again for her account. It would seem a quite simple task to allow multiple iCloud accounts to view a set of computers set to any of the iCloud Apple ID's. There is a function similar to this on my TimeCapsule. I can put both of our AppleID accounts onto that device and both of us can see our TimeCapsule and all attached storage while away from home (brilliant by the way), great for accessing movies I have stored on the TimeCapsule. Any results on how to make this work? Thanks

Multiple iCloud account on a Mac?!

Hi and tnxs for reading.
I notice there is a post with the same subject but the core is different.
I just got an iOS device for mu job with a personal (company related) apple id and iCloud mail account.
I got my new personal apple.id and pwd.
I would like to access this email account via my Mac as-well. For this reason I added this iCloud on my Mac by using Add Account on Mail.
After having inserted my new applied and pwd I got it verified, however the Mail box for this account is not ticked. If I tick it I am prompted to write an iCloud account name @iCloud.com , with the warning that when created it cannot be modified. At this point I stopped the process.
Is there a way to have multiple iCloud account on my Mail??
Many tnxs.

The secondary account data I am entering is correct: it is verified during the process and accepted.
Contact, Calendar and Reminders are ticked activated.
Mail is not activated. By manually ticking Mail box I get the msg "Choose an iCloud mail name".
I am attaching both screenshots.
Tnxs.

How do i set up multiple iCloud accounts on the same mac?

how do i set up multiple iCloud accounts on the same mac?

Interesting - I was sure I'd seen a note somewhere that it was only Mail, but this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4020
does say
Your secondary iCloud accounts can be set up and viewed in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars on your iOS device, or Apple () menu > System Preferences > Mail, Contacts, Calendars on OS X Lion. You may choose to do this if you have a second iCloud account and need to access its Mail, Contacts, or Calendar data.
Note: While you can configure multiple iCloud Mail accounts in iOS, Push mail will only work for the primary iCloud account in iOS. Secondary account(s) will check for mail based on the settings in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data.
It's not something I can test - I suppose the second account's data gets added to the lists in iCal and Address Book?

Sync multiple icloud accounts to mac

Can I sync multiple icloud accounts to a mac

You can add additional iCloud accouts to your Mac as secondary accounts by going to System Preferences>Internet Accounts (Mail,Contacts,Calendars)>iCloud and entering your credentials. Secondary accounts will only sync mail, contacts, calendars, reminders and notes.
Additionally, you can sign into different iCoud accounts in different user accounts.

How can I use multiple icloud Accounts with Fotos?

Hello.
Yesterday, my wife and I started using the new App "Fotos" on OSX and iOS.
What I can't figure out, and where I would like to get some insight and help, is how we should use our icloud Accounts.
How it is right now:
- Wife (MacBook and iPhone)
Has her own icloud-Account ([email protected]) for Backup (iOS) and Fotosync, Keychainsync, Bookmarks. 20GB iCloud-Account (18GB free).
- Husband (MacBook, Mac Mini and iPhone and iPad)
Has his own icloud-Account ([email protected]) for Backup (iOS) and Fotosync, Keychainsync, Bookmarks. 20GB iCloud Account (10 GB free).
- Husband has about 400 GB of Photos from over 10 Years on Mac Mini
How I want it to be:
- Husband
upgrades to at least the 500GB Account, to use for all 400GB of Photos and Backup, Keychainsync, Bookmarks.
- Wife
Has her own Account ([email protected]) for Keychain and Bookmark, but uses [email protected] on MacBook and iPhone for Backup an Fotosync, so that all Photos are stored in a single one family "container". All Photos in one Place without being able to forget to put them there.
I don't see, how I can accomplish that, since only one "real" icloud account seems to be possible in iOS, so that if i put my account in her iPhone I would get the Photo and Backup I want, but she would not be able to sync her own bookmarks an keychain any more.
Any thought on how to resolve this?
Am I missing something?
Thanks for your ideas,
thomas

Yes, you could have multiple iCloud accounts for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Notes, and Find My iPhone, but only one primary iCloud account for Photo Stream, Documents & Data, and Storage & Backup.

Multiple iCloud accounts on same device

With multiple MobileMe accounts (on the same device), only the 'primary' account would 'push' email. The other accounts would need to manually fetch the email.
Has this changed with iCloud? If you set up multiple iCloud accounts, will they all have email 'pushed'?
What about Contacts and Calendars? Will changes get 'pushed' to all accounts or just the primary account?
If Contacts and Calendar changes are not pushed, how can a device be updated with the latest info? With email, there is usually a 'Get mail' button or at least you can set a schedule so messages will get fetched, but there's no such facility for Contacts and Calendars. So if there's no push, how can they keep in sync?
I'm hoping that even if email push only works for the primary account, it WILL work for Contacts and Calendars, even on the other 'secondary' iCloud accounts. Can anyone confirm this either way?

Updating this myself as I have some more information.
The secondary iCloud accounts seem to get mail pushed to them, even on iOS devices which suggests that iOS 5 now does indeed support IMAP IDLE as I cannot see how this would occur otherwise.
However, an odd thing has occured on the Mac. A day after setting up the 3 iCLoud accounts, during which time it has all worked perfectly well, this morning OSX has modified all the accounts, all by itself. It has self-created 3 MobileMe accounts, named the same as the iCloud accounts were and those have now all been renamed 'iCloud'. The iCloud accounts now have Mail turned OFF and the new MobileMe accounts have that turned ON. IOW, the new MobileMe accounts have taken over the email duties.
There's 2 oddities about this, well more than 2 really.
Why create these new 'email only' accounts as type MobileMe which will soon be entirely defunct?
Why would it do this at all? Why not just leave the 3 x iCloud accounts, as they were?
How has it done this all by itself? Shouldn't such account creation be a manual process by the user?
It doesn't seem to have affected the functionality, but I am at a complete loss as to what is going on here. So if anyone can shed some light on it I'd be grateful.

Multiple iCloud Accounts on 1 iDevice?

Is it possible to have multiple iCloud accounts active on 1 iDevice at the same time? I know you can have a separate account for purchases, but can you pick and chose what is synced with each account?
I have 2 iPhone's (mine, my wife's). We currently share a MobileMe account. My thought is to each have our own iCloud account for certain things (back-ups, notes, reminders) and another for things we want to share (calendar, contacts, purchases).
For example:
     iCloud X on iPhone 1
     iCloud Y on iPhone 2
     iCloud Z on both
Is it possible? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

My husband and I have a very similar setup. We each have iCloud accounts. We only want 2:
     his we have used for "family" email and syncing calendars, contacts, and find my iPhone,
     mine for mail and reminders.
So his iPhone connects to only his account, but but mine is set up to connect to both, his account for family mail that I need, syncing calendars and contacts and to mine.
This works fine for everything except siri. I don't completely understand how siri works, but if I tell siri on my phone that I am me, my husbands phone is synced and I am marked as me on his as well. This my mother is labled as his on his phone. Not sure how to fix?
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Multiple iCloud Accounts in iCal

Does anyone know if its possible to add multiple iCloud accounts into iCal?
i have a situation where i have one account asigned to the mac through system prefernces which is syncing iCal, Address Book, Mail etc etc. I also have another iCloud account with a different ID, i would like to view inside of iCal. In iCal Preferences it seems i would be able to add the account but my concern is it will cause sync problems.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance

Yes, you can have multiple iCloud accounts in iCal. Add the additional accounts from the accounts tab in iCal prefs. The only hangup I have seen is making sure that your default calendar is set properly and keeping track of which calendar the entries are on. Make sure you set the colors to be contraasting to avoid confusion.

Can i use multiple icloud accounts in my find my iphone app?

Can i use multiple icloud accounts in my find my iphone app? I have multiple accounts that i want to tie to that app.

You can't buy another one. You have to reuse one of the accounts previously set up on your phone, or create a new one to use on another iOS device (running iOS 5 or higher) or Mac (running OS X 10.7.2 or higher), if you have one.

HT204150 I now have multiple icloud accounts. How do you determine which one is holding the data?

I recently set up a new Windows 7 PC. I backed my phone to the icloud. When I plugged my phone into itunes on the PC it wiped my contacts and music out. Now I'm finding I have multiple iCloud accounts. I don't know which one to use or how to get my data restored to the phone. Very frustrating! Can anyone help me? --ptowngal

Go to icloud.com, sign into each of your iCloud accounts and see which one(s) contain your data.

Multiple iCloud accounts in Contacts

I have multiple iCloud accounts (all the same ones) showing in my contacts. I can't delete them from the side bar. I've tried turning of contacts in system preferences and turning back on the four different accounts show up.
Any suggestions on how to get rid of these extra accounts.

Yes, the iCloud pane is for your main iCloud login. In Internet Accounts pane, it will include all email accounts and any other iCloud accounts you add in addition to the main one. Some have more than one Apple ID or you may want to add someone like your wife's iCloud contacts to the computer with yours.
Anyway, if you only have one iCloud account and Apple ID, there is no reason to have other iCloud accounts listed. Do as it says and delete the others if you only have one. Just leave the main account there.
Glad that helped.

How do i creating multiple icloud accounts for one itunes account

how do i creating multiple icloud accounts to access one itunes account?

Perhaps you could explain a bit more what you want to do...
iCloud accounts don't access an iTunes account.
iTunes account is used to make purchases.

HT4907 I am able to connect to my Mac Mini on Back to My Mac through iCloud but the keyboard/trackpad on the MBAir or MBP with which I access does not register on the Mini. So I can see the screen but cannot interact with it. Mini works accessing MBP/Air

I am able to connect to my Mac Mini on Back to My Mac through iCloud but the keyboard/trackpad on the MBAir or MBP with which I access does not register on the Mini. So I can see the screen but cannot interact with it. Mini works accessing MBP/Air and I can use Mini to input data or interact with screens of those computers.

Regarding your first question about bookmarks, I think you discovered the answer in when you pressed the address bar. The second tab there has your bookmarks.
As for the keyboard, I'm not sure why your Firefox is reacting so slowly; mine seems to show keyboards even when I don't want them. If you have accumulated a lot of history, perhaps that's an issue?
Did you use any third party software to move your Firefox data from internal memory to the storage card?

HT204053 how can i create multiple icloud accounts for my family members

how can i create multiple icloud accounts for my family members

Thanks... I appreciate the reply. Since I wrote the previous email, I actually went and changed my apple id (the main id) and the documentation I looked at said iCloud will set mail up automatically(?)... I had it working before.
Also, I tried to manually set up the ID via the Mail Accounts screen(s) and I can't figure out what my server information is... Pop or Imap? What's the outgoing server and the incoming server?
I typically have never had problems setting up mail accounts (in apple mail) with no problem.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!

Back to my mac multiple iCloud accounts

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