How to use multiple Apple IDS

I just bought my first iPhone and another one for my wife. I'm trying to figure out how to configure Apple IDs to get the most out of our phones. I'm interested in having us both share contacts and calendars, as well as use the same account for iTunes and the app store. But we'd like to be able to FaceTime each other. Is it possible to have one Apple ID for contacts, calendars, iTunes and apps, while use a different one for FaceTime?
In addition, my wife and I run a small business together, and it makes sense to me to use a separate Apple ID for this so that we can keep business contacts and schedules separate.. allowing us to use this same business ID for other office/managerial employees in the near future. There are also another set of apps for the business... for example, we use Google Voice in our business. Can we use another Apple ID for another set of contacts and calendar appointments?

YOu can share apple id for apps and music.
However you should get a separate id for imessage/facetime/icloud.

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My computers have two apple ids. One for music, and one for everything else.
Can I use one apple id in iTunes to share music, and a different apple id for everything else on the computer?

Hello cmonroe5
You can say for instance, Use one Apple ID for any purchased content from the iTunes Store or App Store. You can then use the other for iCloud services for syncing content like contacts and calendars. Check out the article below for more information about using multiple Apple ID’s.
iOS: Sign in with a different Apple ID in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
Regards,
-Norm G.

HT1495 how to use multiple apple id's with a single itunes account

I am looking to set up two iphones and a two ipads (one for me and one for my fiance) to a single itunes account to allow us to load music and apps from the same itunes account but be able to have seperate accounts for facetime on our phones and ipads. Any recommendations on the best way to do this?

You cannot do that. Each Apple ID needs to be tied to each separate account. Each of you must purchase your own copies of music and apps and sync to separate iTunes Libraries on the computer. The computer must have to user accounts set up - one for you and one for your fiance.
Sharing Stuff From Different iTunes Accounts (or Computers)
Here's how to do so using different computers:
Transfer what content you want to the separate iTunes library on each computer. To transfer content from your library to another library do the following. We'll assume this is between husband and wife separate accounts and different Apple IDs.
Launch iTunes under your wife's login;
Sign her out of iTunes, then you sign in;
Select iTunes -> Preferences -> Devices -> Disable auto-sync when an iPod/iPhone is connected;
Connect your phone, DO NOT SYNC;
Select Store -> Authorize this Computer (only have to do this once);
Select File -> Transfer Purchases (all of the purchased content on your phone will be transferred to your wife's library);
When complete eject your phone, sign out of iTunes, sign your wife back in.
You can now sync whatever content you want to your wife's phone. Just remember all updates to apps obtained using your account must be done while signed in using your account: sign wife out, you sign in, update apps, you sign out, sign wife in, sync her phone.
This way you can share content (permitted under the EUSLA) and still maintain your separate logins. Do the same on your computer if you want to share content from your wife's library.
Just load whatever content you want to share on each others phones, transfer the content, then delete it from the respective phone if you don't want to keep it there.
Contributed by user wjosten and modified by me.
iTunes- How to share music between different accounts on a single computer

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I first started my iTunes life with a AIM Apple ID (text name - not @domain).
A year later for reasons I do not recall I got a second Apple ID with an email address. This may have been when I signed up for Mobileme. After a year I discontinued Mobileme but still had two Apple IDs. I really only wanted one - the AIM one, but now my iTunes life is split between
Now when I signed up for iCloud, I wanted to use the AIM account but learned this is not longer accepted. So then I offered up the second Apple ID, but this was refused - (name already in use). So I was forced to create a THIRD Apple ID as a @me.com account
Now I have three Apple IDs. I called Apple TS and they sent me to the Mobileme site where on Home page where if offers for convert you tfrom Mobileme to iCloud. But you have to sign in to Mobile me. I could not pass the authentication - maybe because I stopped using Mobileme a year ago.
Anyway, I really only want one and only one Apple ID - now my life is spread across three
Maybe someone here can succeed where Apple TS could not
Thanks in advance
Stoddard

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"Method Three
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This one may work. I searched and searched on the website for something like this, I guess I just didn't search correctly, lol. I will give this a try later. My daughter is not be back for a few weekends, therefore I will have to try the Method 3 when she comes back for the weekend again. "
I forgot to mention that she has a PC at her house that she also syncs to. Would this cause a problem. I am already getting that pop up saying that the iPod is synced to another library (even though she is signed in with her Apple ID to iTunes) and gives the pop up to Cancel, Erase & Sync, or Transfer Purchases. My question arose because she clicked on "Erase & Sync" by mistake when she plugged the iPod to her PC the first time. When the iPod was purchased and setup, it was synced to my PC first. When she went home, she hooked it up to her PC and then she erased it by accident. I was able to restore all the missing stuff yesterday using my PC. However, even after doing that it still told me the next time I hooked it up last night that the iPod was currently synced with a different library. Hopefully, you can help me understand all this. She wants to sync her iPod and also backup her iPod at both places. Both PCs have been authorised. Thanks

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Though it will be difficult to do future updates, because only the updates of the id that is used for the moment are showing up.

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I have one Apple id that I use for downloading music and apps on both iTunes and my ios devices, as well as itunes match. I have another that I use for for icloud. My iTunes match subscription is due to expire and I want to use my icloud apple id as my new iTunes Match apple id. If I made purchases with the prior apple id, and used that id for iTunes Match, and now want to change the iTunes Match apple id to my icloud apple id, will iTunes Match sync my music with the new apple id even though the purchases were made on the older id? Or do I have to use the same apple id for iTunes Match that I used to purchase the music in my iTunes library?
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Hi again,
After a little further research, it appears that you would need to create separate iTunes libraries in order to be able to continue to purchase and download previously purchased items on the same computer, for two different Apple IDs. Sorry - but my husband and I have had the library we sync with authorized for so long, that we have not run into this issue, but it appears that you will get an warning when you try to authorize the second ID on the same computer, indicating that another ID is already associated with it.
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http://www.imore.com/how-use-multiple-apple-ids-one-computer-and-itunes
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This one may work. I searched and searched on the website for something like this, I guess I just didn't search correctly, lol. I will give this a try later. My daughter is not be back for a few weekends, therefore I will have to try the Method 3 when she comes back for the weekend again. "
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