Can I have a separate apple ID accounts? One for  my iphone, and one for my ipad?

This may be a stupid questions but, I don't want everything on my ipad on my iphone. Can I make two separate apple ID accounts? how will that affect my itunes account on my laptop/macbook?

No. You can sign in and out of the different accounts on the phone and the iPad but you can't use automatic downloads with two different ID's and if you switch to another ID on a device and then you download past purchases using that ID, you will lock yourself out of the other ID for 90 days.

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