HT204053 2 ipads in home - 2 different Apple ID's needed for different content?

Question

If we have 2 I Pads in the house, do we need to have two different Apple ID's to keep content seperate on each device? Currently we have one Apple ID and some apps that I have put on my Ipod are appeariing on husband's IPad, I am getting an IPad so am wondering, do we need seperate ID's to prevent this problem.  If so, how do I create a new one?

Answer 1

If you share an iCloud account with the same ID on multiple devices, any data you sync with the shared account such as contacts and calendars are merged, and all devices get the merged list.  To prevent this, you need to have different iCloud accounts with separate IDs (you can continue to share the same Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and app stores).
To fix this decide which device(s) will be keeping the current iCloud account.  On the device(s) that will be changing accounts, if they have any photos in photo stream that are not in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else save these to the camera roll by opening the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tapping Edit, then tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share and tap Save to Camera Roll. 
Once this is done, on each device that is changing accounts go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from this device, not from iCloud.  The device(s) that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On [iDevice].  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom).  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 these 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).