Can i manage multiple iCloud accounts on a singe imac

In my house we have 3 iphones and an ipad and would like to manage at least 3 different icloud accounts from our desk top imac 27

In mny opinion, it would be far better ot create a new, separate computer login for your wife.
She will have all her own data (email contacts, calendar, iTunes library, etc.).
No worries about switching libraries or messing up each other's data.

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  • 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!

  • HT204053 can i have multiple iCloud accounts with the same Apple id

    Can i have multiple iCloud accounts with the same Apple id

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    No, your ID is essentially your account. You can have email aliases and you can have multiple accounts, but I don't think that's what you are asking.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • HT4436 can I have multiple icloud accounts on one device

    can I have multiple icoud accounts on one device (ipad)?

    Are you sure only primary account can use Find my iPhone?
    I added a secondary account to my daughters iphone and was able to use it for Find my iPhone.
    It warns you that the Find my iphone service will be disabled on the other icloud account.
    I think this is a good change so I can use a single account to track all the devices.
    Looks like only photostream and documents/data are tied to the primary account.

  • Can I have multiple iCloud accounts?

    If I can have multiple iCloud accounts, where and how do I set the up?  I cannot find the option under the iCloud settings in system preferences.  I have a personal and two different work emails with calendars I would like to sync.

    I believe if you go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars you can set up another iCloud account, but I believe you can only sync data between one account at a time.
    You can set up two iCloud accounts separately for iCloud mail and syncing and another for iTunes Purchases, and Apple has an article out for this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895

  • Can i use multiple icloud accounts on 1 device

    Can I use multiple icloud email accounts on one device?

    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.

  • How do I manage multiple iCloud accounts for personal iCloud Drive & personal calling?

    Yosemite has the ability now to make and receive phone calls as well as to use an iCloud Drive to share documents across devices (similar to DropBox, but as you will see with one major customization flaw).  These are wonderful featurew, however, unless I am following the directions incorrectly my computer with Yosemite has to have the same iCloud account as is used on my iPhone for iMessage (for calling) and for virtually everything else for iCloud Drive (ie there is no way to set-up a separate iCloud account for iCloud Drive). 
    Now for iMessage I use a private iCloud account, but for the iPhone itself I actually use an iCloud account shared with my family.  Why?  Because when we use a shared iCloud account we can share a number of things here such as:
    Location  on Find iPhone.  This works way better than find my friends and also makes it easy for us to lock a device if it's stolen since all of us know how to do this. 
    Calendar not critical, but allows us to put some family events here
    Notes, Very cool as we can share shopping lists which is very helpful when you show up at the grocery and want to know what to get or to Costco etc
    Reminders Also very cool as we can create reminders for each other for when we get home or whatever
    Files on iCloud Drive Yes there are some files that it would be nice to share and we can do this (ideally there would be multiple accounts for this)
    Now I haven't really used iCloud Drive much but you can easily imagine how some documents I might want to share with the family on iCloud while other's I might not.
    Now when you switch your Facetime iCloud account to the same as the iPhone that is one private iCloud account shared with an application on another device that uses the same iCloud account.  That is NO PROBLEM.  However, the minute you activate the ability to call phones it requires that you now have the SAME iCloud account in the main computer.  Now BINGO I have a problem as noted above I want to be able to share certain things with other devices.
    Does anyone have a solution or workaround?
    Otherwise it seems the only thing to suggest is that Apple consider a feature enhancement that allows you to make cell calls from your computer WITHOUT switching the iCloud account to the main account.  For that matter it would be very useful if they could figure out how to partition the iCloud features so that I can decide which iCloud account does what or like DropBox give permissions for certain things and allow the individual users to decide what they want and don't want.
    Thanks.

    Gail,
    No you are not being dense, you are just trying to be helpful.  I may not have explained the problem very well.  Setting up a Family iCloud account works great!  However, if that account name is also used for your iMessage, Facetime, and now cellular calls you have an issue with your calls going to the entire family (or worse the thing just not working), your iMessages if multiple phone numbers are trying to use the same icloud account usually get messed up, and their Facetime accounts might end up showing up as you instead of them.  In fact, I think you can't call your family members in this situation and I'm not sure iMessage works very well either.  So what everyone does is create a personal iCloud account for personal features such as iMessage, FaceTime, etc.
    Now in theory I could co-opt the Family iCloud account for my calls, but then no one else would be able to use the call feature, because unless I'm mistaken you can't have multiple phone numbers attached to the call Forward and still have them recognize which calls to forward to which phones.    If they don't care for this feature it might work (I'm experimenting now), but I don't think that's what Apple intended. 
    It is possible to do a switch, which may be what you are suggesting.  This would involve creating a separate profile on the computer that is used for making phone calls.  I would, however, still need to co-opt the iCloud account for just my number and worse I wouldn't be able to make any calls unless I was in that profile.  One of the great advantages of calling from your computer is that you make the call while you are working on something else which is inevitably your work or your personal stuff which is NOT likely to be in the newly created family profile.
    Thanks for the suggestion, but I hope this helps you understand either how little I understand of your suggestion or why it doesn't quite meet my needs.

  • HT204053 can I have multiple icloud accounts for one apple id?

    I have multiple people in my family using our original apple id .  As they have gotten iphones, macbooks, etc they register there devices under our originale apple id.  over the holidays when my youngest child got her ipod touch and registered it for icloud, two of the children now are seeing each others texts?  Is there a way to use the same apple id for the family and have seperate icloud accounts for each person or should we have a seperate apple id for each person?

    Yes but the issue with receiving each other's text messages is not being caused by sharing the same iCloud account.  To fix this, each person needs to be using a separate Apple ID for iMessage on their devices.  (Note: you can continue to use the same iTunes account on all your devices but each person should use a different ID for iCloud, iMessage and FaceTime).  There are a couple of things you need to do to sort all this out.
    First decide who will be keeping the current ID for all services.  On the device(s) belonging to the other people in your family, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the Apple ID, sign out, then sign back in with a saparate ID for each person.  After doing so you will no longer be getting each other's messages on your devices.
    Next, to avoid getting each other's FaceTime calls, do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.
    For iCloud, to avoid having merged data by syncing with the same iCloud account you will need to migrate each person to their own iCloud account.  To do this, first decide who will be keeping the current account.  On the other devices go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from the device, not from iCloud.  The device(s) that will be keeping the current account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On My [iDevice].  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID on the device(s) belonging to each person.  Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.
    Finally, to un-merge the data in your iCloud accounts you will then have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the other person's contacts from your account, and vice versa).

  • How do I manage Multiple iCloud accounts

    Years ago (dotmac days) I set up a family account. For $99 per year I received email accounts for me, my wife and my 2 children. We have used them ever since and the credit card gets charged annually. Now all of the others (but me) are using google accounts and I want to change this. I used to be able to manage all of the accounts (set passwords, add storage etc.) by logging into my account. Now, there does not seem to be any way to access these other accounts. Any help?
    P.S. This is not Family Sharing for iTunes issue. This is an iCloud email account for each of my family members. All help in support etc. points me to family sharing.

    There is no 'Family Pack' for iCloud as there was with DotMac/MobileMe - in those cases the object was to provide limited accounts linked to the main account at a lower price. As iCloud at basic level is free there is no requirement for this. Each family member will need their own separate iCloud account which they will administer. As you've found, Family Sharing is designed to allow separate iCloud accounts owned by family members to share purchases, and for the main account owner to control a child's spending.

  • How to Manage Multiple iCloud Accounts?

    I've been getting these email notifications saying that my "complimentary iCloud storage upgrade expires" soon. It's prompting me to upgrade my plan, which I did for my main iCloud account, however how do I do this for all my other accounts?
    I already went to System Preferences -> iCloud -> Sign Out, but once I click on "Sign Out" it says "do you want to keep a copy of your iCloud contacts on this Mac" (which I responded with "Keep Contacts"), then the next pop up says "If you stop using iCloud for Calendars & Reminders, calendars and reminders stored in iCloud will be deleted from this Mac" with the option of "Cancel" or "Delete from Mac". I don't quite understand what this means and am too scared to click "Delete from Mac", but unless I do this I can't proceed any further. Help! What should I do?
    All I want to do is just log out from one iCloud account to another (on my Mac) so I can upgrade my storage plan on a different iCloud account.
    Thanks!

    You only have the complimentary storage on one iCloud account - the one you migrated to from MobileMe. If you have upgraded the storage then this will work with all your devices logged into that account.
    Do you actually have any other iCloud accounts - with different logins and email addresses? These would not be affected by upgrading the ex-MobileMe one.
    If you have another iCloud account you want to upgrade you will have to pay for it separately, but in that case you don't have the impending termination of the free storage.
    To change the iCloud account in use on any one device, go to the iCloud preference/settings pane and click 'Sign out' or 'Delete account' as applicable. This will not delete the account from the server. If 'Find my iPhone/Mac/Ipad' is running you will have to turn it off first. Do not choose to retain data on the device (it will still be on the server and when you sign back in you will get duplicates when you sign back in).
    Then you can sign in with the other account, do whatever is necessary, sign out in the same way and back into the original account, whereupon your data will reappear.
    But, once again, the prompt to upgrade your storage applies to only the one account, and will take effect for all devices logged into it without your havint to do anything else.

  • How can I setup multiple iCloud accounts on my Mac?

    I'm trying to setup additional icloud accounts.  Is this possible and if so, how do you go about doing it?
    Thanks!

    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!

  • If we share one iTunes account can we have multiple iCloud accounts?

    My children and I share one iTunes account.  Can each one of us have our own iCloud account.  We upgreaded the IOS and my daughter ended up with my contacts and hers.  She deleted mine and now they are all gone.  I want to avoid this issue in the future. 

    First decide which device(s) will keep the existing account.  On the others all you have to do is go to Settings>iCloud and tap Delete Account, then set up a new account with a new ID and turn iCloud syncing for your data back to On.  When prompted, choose merge.  Deleting the accout will only remove it from the device, not from iCloud.  The device(s) that will continue to use the existing account will not be effected by this.
    However, if any of the devices is still syncing data with the account, before deleting the account you must go to Settings>iCloud and turn syncing to Off, and when prompted, choose to keep the data on the device (otherwise it will be deleted from the device when you delete the account), the set up the new account, turn syncing back to On, and when prompted, choose merge to upload the data to the new account.
    After each device has it's own account, if you have any merged data in any of the accounts you will need to go to icloud.com, sign into them separately and manually delete the unwanted data.

  • Can I have multiple ICloud accounts sync to one computer?  Strictly looking to have 2 photostreams save to one computer.

    My wife and I both have Iphones and Ipads but seperate Icloud accounts.  I would like to utilize the photostream capabilites of the icloud desktop client to view pictures on our home pc and back them up.  Is there anyway to do this? will this be added in the future?
    thanks,

    update to this question... 
    I can't turn on automatic downloads on my iTunes as it is already associated with my account and if I chang it to hers, then I can't change it again for 90 days  :-(  so bascially, I guess while I can have two accounts authorised on my computer, so that it can play music videos etc... there is no easy way to get this content between my computers. 
    So bascially back to where I was when I used to try and use Syncopation and various other products to get music purchases synced between all computers - it never worked very well, tried various products etc but not really much luck and no help with books, apps etc...
    I really do not think that Apple has though thru multi person/family support in the iTunes store and frankly getting pretty fed up with it. 
    They have limited it to 5 computers, I don't see why there have to be these additional restrictions all the time, or why they won't fold two accounts into one.
    It's starting to look like £10 per month for Spotify premium may be a better deal now that you can download music from there...  I spend a lot on the iTunes store but I am going to have to rethink that if there isn't an answer to easily allow my wife and I to share what we purchase.

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