New ios5, managing two iphones on itunes

updated both mine and wife's iphones, things seem to be messed up. All my contacts were deleted, substituted with hers. My app's appeared on her phone, including a work email. Her text messages to me come over ID'd as my personal email. I restored my iphone back using time machine, but wondering if there is a better way to manage this off one imac itunes account?

I'm in the same situation as you and here's what I did. I've had an iPhone for 2 years (3GS and now 4) and she just got a 4S. I was not sure if we should share the same iTunes account or split, and after doing a lot of reading I wound up deciding to get two separate iTunes accounts. It seems that part of your problem is that you are sharing one iTunes account. I think in the long run you're better off getting two accounts or you'll keep having these issues.
Even with two account I think you can still share music libraries.
So far this setup seems to work OK with one caveat (see Music below).
I have iPhone 4, she has a new 4S.
We have one Mac at home.
I created two Users on the Mac, one for each of us (I also did this because her desktop is a mess but that's for another thread...).
We have two separate iTunes accounts, each with our own Library.
I sync my phone on my User account with my iTunes account.
She does the same (actually I do this for her...)
What we get:
* Share the same Address Book (aka contacts) on the Mac. Somehow we are able to read/write to the same Address Book from both of our contacts.
* We seem to be able to share the same apps, even paid apps.
* Synch photos to the same shared iPhoto library (although I had to follow these tips so we could both read/write to the same shared library).
Troubleshooting tips:
* If you have trouble syncing contacts, make sure that you both have the same iCloud settings. Somehow I managed to have one phone with iCloud and ther other without and that made it problematic to sync contacts to/from the Mac to the iPhones.
* Music: my wifes phone still has greyed out songs. I haven't figure this out. I've seen this in other discussion threads. I think this can be solved eventually.

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I have always used two computers / iTunes accounts for my wife and I's two iPhones. Last week my iPhone and home computer hard drive both crashed (what are the chances. I am now pulling all data off my AppleTV and I am trying to decide how to set everything back up:
1. Put all content on wife's Toshiba laptop (Win7) and manage two instances
2. Buy a new Harddrive and reset up my desktop (which will only be used to manage digital media and occassional surf.
Any thoughts? How simple is it to manage two iphone/itunes accounts from one machine. Last posts I saw look like a bit of a pain, because I have to manage my music (the bigger amount of music) in playlists.
Opinions appreciated!

You're welcome.
Can I import the same music into both iTunes instances.
Yes, as long as your authorize the computer for each account that the music was purchased under, e.g- if the music was purchased under your account & you want the music in your wife's library, you would use her computer login, launch itunes, sign her out of itunes, sign in using your itunes account details, Store>Authorize this Computer, sign out, then sign her back in.
Do I need to just add one new user
Yes, and I assume you want full administrative powers, so you should set up your account as an administrator.
Once you've set things up this way, transferring purchased content(Apps & music) is real easy. Simply launch itunes, sign out of whatever account you want to transfer the content to, sign in using the account that has the content on the phone, File>Transfer Purchases, sign out after doing so & then sign the other party back in.
You also want to make sure that you disable auto sync when an iphone is connected under preferences in the edit menu. Do this for each login. You DO NOT WANT TO SYNC to each others account, just File>Transfer Purchases. That way you can share apps & music, which is permitted under the EUSLA for family members in the same household.

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Hello All!
I already have a 16GB 3G iPhone and we're going to be getting another 3G for my wife (whether it is 8GB or 16GB is still to be decided). On my phone, I have about 13GB used, with the primary source being music. We intend the same iTunes account and there are no other devices using authorizations on this account.
*First, does Apple's licensing of applications allow the second phone using the same iTunes account to download all of the previously purchased applications for free?* In other words, will she be able to download any applications I purchased for free since I have unlimimted free downloads on my phone?
Second, and most importantly, I am wondering how iTunes manages two different iPhones on one computer. This will especially be an issue if she gets an 8GB iPhone since everything that is on my phone will not fit on an 8GB model. She doesn't want or need all of my music, so we could very easily not transfer all of the music. But, I'm just wondering how they will co-exist if they are different sizes and her phone might keep running out of room. If the iTunes software doesn't handle this situation well, we may buy a 16GB model just to make our lives easier. *If someone could provide me with information on how the iTunes software handles multiple phones (especially if they are of different capacities) or links to other websites with information on this topic I would really appreciate it.*
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Open itunes, connect iphone, select what you want to sync, sync, dicsonnect iphone.
Connect other iphone, select what you want to sync, sync.
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Thanks very much. First valid answer I've gotten despite my posts on LinkedIn and Facebook, totalling over 8000 "friend"-connections.
BUT, is this really the best program? I heard about "Senuti", and another one at Apple called Files Transfer...
I have no problem paying for which ever program does the job, but in todays world, it seems only 2% of all programs work, or does what it actualy says.
AND, how does this program you suggest, actually interact with iTunes, and MacBook? In the future once all music is finally tranferred, do I get all the same folder, and order, which I've spend many many many hours setting up on my prvious iTunes...
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Problem is my husband set up his own iTunes account with his iphone and now he wants to access the music on our home computer/iTunes account.
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My problem is similar, except for 3 different devices: IPod Nano, Old style Shuffle, and Iphone 3Gs.
To answer one post as to "why" different accounts... 1 pre-teen user; wife/husband have (maybe) a 10 song overlap in the library, and I have tons of apps.
Ok, all I want to do is play the same stuff on my home computer as on my work computer. There are 3 I-tunes accounts on my home computer (mine is one). My apps/movies and music don't show up on this computer, even though it has been authorized. I have synced the phone, but no changes, even after adjusting the prefs. Oh, and this is a side note, my Outlook calendars are not playing well together either. My home Outlook is "stand alone" while my work calendar is accessed by others all the time and both appts and email are "pushed" to my phone. (This is not a big deal, however)
All I want is to be able to use my home computer to get MY movies and songs onto my I-phone (from the home computer)-- and download new stuff, that once I put on my phone will transfer to my work computer when I plug sync my phone and work computer together.
Honestly, I don't need my wife's stuff or my kid's stuff, nor do I need for them to have my stuff. I don't care if we do share, I just don't want to chew up the memory on my phone with "Kidz Bop Vol 1-99", etc.
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I recently upgraded to a new iPhone, passing my old 4 to my wife. She created a different AppleID and manages her phone with a separate laptop/iTunes. She'd love to be able to sync photos and music with my iTunes library (specific iTunes playlist and subsets of my Aperture library). Is this possible, considering that:
I'd prefer not to create another user on my Mac to do that, and
Only music and photos are to be shared; apps, contacts and everything else must stay separated
I'm under the impression that I can add my wife's iPhone to the "manageable" iOS devices on my Mac and set the sync items as to exclude contacts, apps, calendars and whatever else I don't want to sync, but I'd love to be sure of that before trying anything that could wipe my wife's stuff and replace it with mine...
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