Two iphones sharing one icloud with one Apple ID

Question

I know this type of question has been posted in the past but i couldn't find a specific answer for my situation.
My wife and i share one Apple ID (AID), but we are wanting to have seperate ID's, we currently share one iCloud and have iTunes on a PC.
I accept that i will have to download a load of Apps again onto her iphone but there weren't that many that we had to pay for most were free - so that point isn't really an issue.
What i do want to do is back up her phone to include contacts, photos, etc to the current single icloud account. Her phone has been backed up to iTunes in the past but not iCloud.
Is this something that can be done whilst still keeping both sets of Contacts, Photos etc seperate.
Once it is backed up i'm going to create restore the phone and create a new AID and restore the Contacts etc from the original iCloud account - again is this the right way of doing this.
Then finally i'll have to re-install the Apps, but hey ho at least once it's done its done.
Any advice of guidance would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

You do not have to go through all that. You can keep your "itunes store" id the same and it will allow you to share apps, music etc. All you need to do is on your wife's phone delete (YOUR) icloud account. Even better if she didn't sign in yet. WHEN you delete that account you will see prompts that will ask you what do you want to keep on the phone and delete from the phone- choose accordingly. Once you out of your account, just sign in by creating new apple id for your wife. It is going to be new, her own icloud appleid.
All of that has to be done on her phone in settings- icloud.
And in Settings - itunes and app store you will share your old id, by that sharing apps and the stuff that you buy from store. You can also use her own id in facetime and imessage, allowing you guys to facetime each other, but you probably already do with phone numbers - so those changes are not necessary, unless you have problem now.