Merging two family accounts

My wife and I are on a shared 700 minute plan, each with a data plan (unlimited and 4GB respectively). My mom and sister are also on a separate shared plan, neither currently has a smartphone, and both lines are well out of contract. I would transfer their lines to my account, and upgrade my sister to a smartphone with data at the same time.
After reading several questions and answers on here, it seems like we should do the following:
1) My sister should take advantage of her upgrade eligibility and upgrade to a smartphone with, say, the 2GB data plan.
2) I would then do an AoL on both of their lines.
Do I have this correct? Is it important that she upgrade before the AoL? Is there any point in this process at which point my wife or I would be in danger of losing our current data plans? I do not want to switch to a Share Everything plan at this point.
Anything else I should be aware of?
Thank you!

helixcon wrote:
... Is it important that she upgrade before the AoL? Is there any point in this process at which point my wife or I would be in danger of losing our current data plans? I do not want to switch to a Share Everything plan at this point.
Anything else I should be aware of?
Your sister should upgrade first - when you do the AOL it sometimes adds time (one year?) to the added lines' contract if they have less than a year, so upgrade, get her contract set. THEN do the AOL. Be aware they WILL try to upsell you and convince you of the Share Everything benefits.... and sell you everything else (Mifi, Home Connect, accessories...) they can too! If you don't want the Share everything, say so - your line and your wife's line should NOT be affected by this - although you may want to increase your minute allowance... that's up to you.

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My question relates about merging two apple accounts.
Having two accounts is an issue (for instance when you start setting up Family sharing, or trying to get phone calls on your Mac)
As we know, merging two accounts is alas (still ?) not possible.
But it should be possible to address the issue it my migrating data.
As many people, I have two accounts:
Account A: [email protected], with all my purchases (iTunes, apps, machines)
Account B: [email protected], with my calendar, contacts, bookmarks, photos...
The best possible option seems to keep account A:
- Transfer the data from B to A
- Possibly transferring the [email protected] address into A
- Close B
About the data transfer:
- Transferring iCloud documents is easy (using the Finder)
- Transferring contacts, events bookmarks is also easy as they can be exported (ex .VCF or html)
- Transferring Notes can be done by moving the notes from the iCloud list to the On my Mac List
- Transferring Passwords and Photostreams is difficult (No Export solution for KeyChains, No way to transfer ownership of a photo stream)
- I do not know yet about transferring the iCloud email address [email protected] into the [email protected]
So my questions are:
1) Do you have any idea about transferring Passwords in KeyChain from one iCloud account to another ?
2) Do you have any idea about transferring ownership of a photo stream to one iCloud account to another ?
3) Do you have any idea about the email address transfer
4) Do you have any other way to do this ?
Thanks for your attention
Kind regards

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Photo stream cannot be moved between accounts either, not can it be enabled in a secondary account. If you want to keep your photo stream photos you'll have to either save them to your device, or add them to a shared album before signing out of the existing account (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99). Another option would be to import them to your iPhoto events, then add them back to your new photo stream using iPhoto when you sign into the new iCloud account on your Mac.
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