MobileMe family force upgrade to iCloud

When I updated to iOS 5 I upgraded my Mobile Me account to iCloud. It warned me that I would not be able to manage the other accounts associated with the MobileMe family account which was fine. It did NOT warn me that the other memebers of my family would not be able to use their accounts unless they upgraded. Is there any way to let them continue using Snow Leopard and iOS 4? There are software reasons to keep them on the older OSes.

forand wrote:
... The other accounts are for my other family members, not extra email addresses I added to my MobileMe account. They are full accounts, or where under MobileMe.
Ok, I get that ( I never used MM so I don't know it's features or how the accounts are used ) .
The fact remains that icloud will only work with a single Apple-ID. Of course every member of your family could log in to www.icloud.com and move his/her old ID to become a icloud ID - but the whole syncing features will just be pointless. Everybody in your family then must own his/her own iOS5 device, as iOS5 is no "multi-user" system.
Also in order to sync more then one iOS5 device ( and/or to a Mac or PC ) all these devices and computers need to be singed in with one and the same Apple-ID or there simply is no syncing at all happening. This would limit icloud to be just backups of the account data to the cloud.

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You can see a detailed comparison between MobileMe and iCloud, plus general information and some links to Apple Help pages, here:
http://rfwilmut.net/icloud
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> My "theory" is that, since all three of us are using member accounts, the data is still flowing up to the master and being distributed from there. Would anybody concur?
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Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
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I've so far avoided iCloud because it is very confusing to me. I've read loads of threads, and comprehending it all is still eluding me. Let me explain my setup, what I want to do, and how I'm proposing to do it.
My Setup:
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2 iPod Touches with iOS5
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1 Mini running Lion
3 XP machines, each with accounts for each family member.
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Hi all..
I hope you don't mind me chiming in here, but I see this as a major flaw in the move from MobileMe to iCloud.
Roderick, based on what your requirements are, this sounds like a viable solution.
Here's the spanner in the works:
Q: Can you have more than 1 iCloud account on each iOS device?
Everything I have found so far points to "No".
If you can't, and you all want to sync "common" contacts, iCal events & numbers/pages stuff, then you have to use 1 common iCloud account. But you will not be able to FaceTime or iMessage each other!
Is my assumption here correct?
I have a MobileMe family pack with 5 me.com addresses. I have kept the "main" one from migrating, so we currently keep all our contacts & calendars synced with that "main" account in MobileMe.
Simple solution for the time being, but what happens in June 2012 when MobileMe is retired?
Frustrated-dot-com!!

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I couldn't either. With help from others and a MacWorld article finally got it figured out: You DO want to have two iCloud accounts, but you want one iCloud account to be the source for the Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, iTunes, and PhotoStream on both machines. There is a solution.
The issue: MobileMe account including its own email account, with the user also paying $10 for a second email-only account. The MobileMe account is used for joint Contacts, Calendar, and Safari Bookmarks on two machines, while the main MobileMe mail account was used for mail on one machine and the email-only account was used for mail on the other machine.
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After that, it's all a matter of tweaking the account settings on the other apps to direct to the iCloud account on the first machine.
You will get a screen asking if you want to delete the existing Contacts on that second machine. Do so: DELETE THE EXISTING CONTACTS on that second machine. (Only after backing up your Address Book by using the export function just to be safe.)
Then, WITHIN EACH APPLICATION - Address Book, iTunes, Calendar, Safari - go to the Preferences and set them so that they are tied to the iCloud account for the first machine.
You may need to check your Preferences: for a little while my wife was getting both my mail and hers, until I noticed that within Mail.app she had two accounts: her iCloud account AND my iCloud account. I deleted my account on her machine.

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cathorio wrote:
I recently changed my lap top. My problem is the new lap top won't accept my apple I D it asked me to sing up for a new one which I did.
I am puzzled by this. The laptop doesn't need the Apple ID - but iTunes does. I could be missing something but ....
Why would you not be able to use your existing Apple ID and iTunes account on a new laptop? If you authorized the computer - you should be able to use your existing account - unless you already had 5 computers authorized with the existing ID - and that was why iTunes would not accept the ID. However, I'm sure that you would have received a popup message from iTunes telling you that you had reached the limit.
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Two MacBooks, Two Users, One MobileMe Family account

My wife and I both have MacBooks (different ones). We have a MobileMe Family account. Each laptop uses are unique MobileMe names, address books, calendars, etc... (i.e. I have an account, she has a MobileMe account). We both also have our own iPhone linked to these accounts respectively.
We also have a 'joint' MobileMe account (email and calendar only). This same joint account is the iTunes account for both of us.
We are still on MobileMe. I see lots of people having problems.
One problem I anticipate we will have is: How will iCloud know how to sync our accounts between hers, mine, and ours? There apparently is only one setting: ON and OFF.
We want our individual MobileMe accounts syncing email and calendars from our MacBooks and iPhones -- but our Joint account (iTunes, email, calendar) syncing to us both.
Is this going to be a mess on iCloud?
Thanks for any tips on how to better prepare for the conversion.

Roger,
Thanks for the reply.
I think I understand what you are saying.
I am wondering why the iCloud would be device-dependent. For instance, we have in our home two MacBooks, two iPhones, one iPad, one AppleTV. So, somewhat preciently knowing we'd eventually have more Apple devices, our main account (esp for iTunes) is our joint account. Joint email, calendar, and iTunes/iBooks content. Works great.
So, if we had a family with children with their own accounts, would it then not be possible for each person to have their own accounts and iCloud syncing off of, say, one home computer?
I recall in Steve Jobs's presentation that they 'demoted' the computer to just a device served by iCloud (much like the iPhone, iPad, etc... So, if an iPad can have multiple MobileMe accounts, as a MacBook may, why couldn't iCloud sync them all?
Thanks for the instruction -- just trying to figure out how to get things set up when we go to iCloud (we haven't turned it on yet for this reason).
I see in the discussions forums loads of issues from people switching over.
Maybe the right way to do it is each MacBook retains their accounts. Same with the iPhones. But turn off the other, shared accounts. Turn on iCloud...let it see everything, get synced: Computer A with iPhone A with iCloud Account A (email and contacts only). And Computer B with iPhone B with iCloud Account B (email and contacts only). Then add in the shared iCloud Account (email/calendar/iTunes only).
Thoughts?
Chris

MobileMe account failed email verification, iCloud unusable

Hello there!
I was a longtime MobileMe user with my email address ([email protected]). A couple of days ago I switched my .me account to an iCloud one.
I also had another appleId just for my iTunes stuff. (my_name).
Today iOS5 is being released and I've been having several issues. The Find my Friends and iMessage features don't work with my new iCloud account. As I try to log in in the apps, i just get a message that my account needs to be verified. I tried that online at appleid.apple.com ... but I'm not ale to log in. an "unknown error" occured.
When I try to log in with my iTunes apple ID (my_name) , I can log in perfectly.
So, I upgraded to iCloud and can't use ****. Making a new account isn't really an option as I use my .me email address for a lot of things. (it's my primary email address since over 2 years).
I saw that I could request assistance by phone, but that I have to use a pay 29$ just to get in touch with them.
I'm trying to hold of this option. But I'm seriously annoyed!! There's obviously something wrong at serverside. I hope they fix this ASAP. Anyone else having these problems?

Hi mineshv,
If you are having authentication or verification issues with your iCloud account, you may find the troubleshooting steps in the following article helpful:
iCloud: Account troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3988
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