ICloud and multiple iTunes accounts
Not sure where I should ask this question but how will I be able to keep choices in music, apps and pictures separate on each device? Right now, my wife has a separate iTuns account for her stuff I have a separate account for my stuff. She has an iPhone 4 and an iPad2 and I have an iMac and an iPhone 4. How do we keep things separate for our devices but still share music photos and apps? I want us to be able to pick from the same music, pictures and apps but I am not sure how to do that and I cant really find a good clear/simple answer. We do not have MobileMe accounts as were are rather new apple users.
I'd just sync stuff manually, so you can select what you each do and don't want on your respective devices. Apple invents all this whiz-bang-fantastic new stuff like iCloud that we're all supposed to love and use straight away to the exclusion of all else, but if they don't do what we want then what's the point of using them?
The old ways of syncing will still work just fine and - despite the fact that I don't want all the same things on both my iPhone and iPad - to be honest, I don't want all my music, photos and documents on one of Apple's servers somewhere anyway. That somehow feels like a real invasion of my privacy. So all the time I can continue to sync manually with a USB lead, I'll do so.
Just because Apple comes up with these new ideas doesn't mean that we all HAVE to use them!
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The easiest way to have multiple users with multiple devices share a single computer is to create a User Account on your Windows PC for each person. Each person should also have a unique Apple ID. That will keep each individual's iTunes Library separate from the others and each individual can associate and backup several devices to their iTunes library.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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Hello
I hope someone can help. [I am using Windows Vista (Unfortunately J) and iTunes 10]
I am trying to share the same music library with multiple iTunes accounts. Basically, I want to know if there is a way to automatically upload to other libraries when importing new music into my library, vice versa. [Better information below]
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If you need anymore information please ask!
MattHello roaminggnome
Unfortunately the support is down at the moment, I will have a better look later. I did go though the Apple support previously, however I found nothing that worked.
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