Do you recommend sharing an apple ID with my wife or using my own?
Currently my wife and I own an Ipad and have one Apple ID which we use for itunes to buy apps and songs and what not and sync to our desktop PC... however I just upgraded through AT&T to our first iphones for each of us... she is getting the free 3gs and I am getting a 4s... woo hoo!
My question is, should I set up our Iphones all with the same apple ID or should I create a separate @me IDs for each device (her iphone, my iphone and the ipad)? There are some apps that we would like to be able to share with the Ipad so we don't have to purchase them again and it would be nice to be able to share items through Icloud through all of the devices... but I am sure my wife and I will want to have some different apps on our phones and have different amounts songs, different contacts, pictures and other data... Is it possible to have all of the differentiation within one apple ID and syncing to the same computer on the same Itunes account? Do you have step by step directions on how to do this or can you point me in the direction of some? I have been searching and searching online and can not find a good answer... What do you recommend?
Please let me know if you need more information on our situation to help you give the best answer... thanks for your help!
Gottcha... so we will still use the same apple id for setting up nd acivating the phones and downloading apps and such through itunes, but I should create a different @me ID for my wife's iphone, my iphone and our Ipad when setting up icloud?
So if I take a picture on my iphone, can I then see it on the ipad since it will be on a different @me ID? Or could my wife see it on her phone? Or does everyone have to be logged in to the same ID to see and share items?
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