We have 2 I-phones and 2 mac computers - in our home - how do we survive???

I have a I-4 - my husband has I Phone 4 S we started with just one Mac computer - and it was originally set up for me - with my Itunes / I cloud account
We now have another Mac which is mine - he has the old one - in order for Michael's computer to recognize him - should we trash the I-tunes accounts on the old computer - install I-tunes for him with his apple id - do we need to trash cloud on that computer as well ? Currently his phone whenever he tries to update he always shows my apple id - even though he has his apple id in his phone? - its very confusing

Obviously it's not something that Apple would suggest doing, but if you want to share 1 iTunes account, I would suggest creating a new admin account on your system, or using another computer. You can authorize an Apple ID on up to 5 computers. To do this open iTunes select Store (from the top menu) and Authorize computer.
If you are worried about getting all the content into another user. There are 2 ways;
1. If all of the content is purchased from the iTunes store, you would want to connect up the iPhone to iTunes (in another user) cancel the sync if it starts automatically, or before connecting up the iPhone launch iTunes and go to (Windows Edit/Preferences .. Mac iTunes/Preferences) go to the Device tab and select 'Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods' .. however this does not always work. Authorize computer in the new user. Once the iPhone is connected and this user account is authorized with your shared Apple ID, go to File/Transfer purchases from iPhone. This will bring over any purchased content.
2. If not all the content is purchased, put all the content onto a flash drive, log into the test user, open iTunes, authorize the computer in this new user account and then bring over all the content. Once this is done, make sure that you can play the purchased content in the new user.
Or you can put only the non-purchased content onto the flash drive, and then do step 1 and 2 to get all your data over.
Hope this is helpful, enjoy! ✰

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