Setting up 2 iPhone's on iMac
Hi,
May seem a silly question to some but i thought i'd put it out there......
I have an iPhone & iPad (My ID), my wife has an iPhone (Her ID) and we share an iMac, i have set up two seperate accounts on the iMac due to hearing people having issues with syncing to iTunes, is this the best way forward?
Also all our music & photos are in my set up, how can we share all the music & photos on both devices etc.
Thank you in advance for your replies!
Jon
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