ICloud for families sharing an iTunes account

Our family shares the same iTunes account so we can use the Home Sharing feature for music. However, now with iCloud we are all on the same account and being forced to share contacts, calendars, etc. even though we don't want to. Can we set up separate iCloud accounts for each of us and still keep the same iTunes that we share?

YES! Same issue. HELP! I've created a nightmare.
We have 2 iPhones and several computers. The iPhones are mine and my wife's. I selected backup to iCloud on the two computers that are used by myself and my wife, respectively.
I selected backup to iCloud and sync on mine. I did the same for hers---on a separate computer (her computer) with her iTunes that she uses exclusively for her iPhone. Why would I think that Apple would intuitively understand that these were SEPARATE devices?
My contacts and her contacts all became a jumble. I've got 1,000+ and she's got a fraction of that. I wanted to remove my contacts that were merged into hers. (I don't really care about her contacts in mine----what's another 100?)
I saw that on her phone, in the iCloud section, I could delete the "previously merged contacts". "Previously merged", to me, meant MY contacts that got merged into hers. It also made sense to me that the word "previous" meant her contacts would remain intact on her iPhone. NOT SO. When I hit the delete key, ALL her contacts disappeared! Yikes! I'm in the dog house big time.
"OK". I thought...there's the iPhone backup. So, I switched the radio button from "Backup to iCloud" to what it was: "Backup to this computer". When I hit restore, the verbage makes it seem that I'm going to completely bring her phone back to a Factory Restoration----not a restoration of the last backup! What the heck??!!
APPPPPPPPLE? What's up? Help. If I'm in hot water---so are you! Tell me how to fix this, please!

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You both need, & should use different Apple ID's for iCloud, iMessage & FaceTime. You both can continue to use the same Apple ID for iTunes content.
Your husband needs an Apple ID for iMessage, FaceTime & iCloud.
The Apple ID needs to be a verified email address. Once you have an email address, that can be verified, go here & create the ID:
https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/wa/createAppleId
Then on his phone, turn off Contacts, Calendars, etc. for iCloud. You'll be prompted to keep the data or delete it from the phone, then turn off iMessage, FaceTime & delete the iCloud account...Settings>iCloud...scroll down...delete account. Then, setup iCloud using the new Apple ID, turn on iMessage & Facetime.
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"Can we each have separate Icloud IDs and still have one Apple ID we use for Itunes account?"
Yes, that's the suggested way of doing it.
As for starting from scratch - you need to decide which Apple ID to use for the mac. If each member of the family uses the mac, then set up a seperate account for each and use the Apple ID (the one used for iCloud) to sign into icloud. Use the common ID for itunes purchases. I'd suggest first syncing devices to icloud to get whatever data is important (contacts, events, ...) saved. When on the mac you connect to an iCloud account, the data (just synced from a device) will come down to the mac (for that account).
Tell us what "data" you want to get to the new Mac?

TS4097 we have multiple users in our family and multiple devices all sharing one itunes account. i think we are all synced to one icloud account and it is a nightmare....contacts lost, text messags showing up on multiple devises etc. how do we fix this?

We have our family sharing one itunes account. we have 3 iphones, 2 macbook airs, 2 ipads and 1 mac. I am not sure how we even got started on the icloud but somehow we did and everything is a mess. The ipads are showing the text messages, the contacts are all combined, the apps that my duaghter downloads are appearing on all devices. how do we fix this so contacts are not shared, messages are not shared and apps are not automatically synced to all devises?

You have two different issues going on. You are getting each other's messages because you are sharing the Same Apple ID for iMessage. This can be corrected by going to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive on add the devices and doing one of the following:
Either uncheck the email address shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at" on all of your devices; or
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Once this is done, 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 separate 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. Repeat this process for all the devices that you need to migrate to new accounts.
When finished, to un-merge the data in your accounts you will 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).

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JoeyV325 wrote:
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But you can still use the items in each iTunes library.
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