2 x iphone / 1 itunes account

[boyd88]

On one iTunes account linked through my macbook pro on our computer we currently have my iPhone.

My wife has just got an iPhone too. We want to have all music, pictures etc the same, only difference is we want our own contacts, messages, calendar.

How is best to do this? We want to use my one iTunes account can we use the same apple ids on each account or do we need different ones?

Any help or links to it explained and how to do it would be great 🙂

 

[Closingracer]

You can have two separate id's and share apps ( not every single one but most). Just need to do family sharing

 

[boyd88]

So appleid1@live.co.uk and appleid2@live.co.uk for example then whatever purchases are purchased from each Id can be downloaded to each device if wanted?

Then both devices can be linked to MacBook under the 1 iTunes account for regular updates of music and back ups of stuff etc??

I currently don't have iCloud set up, that is my next topic of help needed

 

[Closingracer]

Linked to Macbook? No. Your linking them through iCloud. One is the organizer and the other is the parent/child/ spouse etc. You can share purchases like apps and etc. On iTunes itself even if you didn't do this you can have two devices on there with different id's and both will have the music on it since it's not DRM.

 

[boyd88]

Linked to Macbook? No. Your linking them through iCloud. One is the organizer and the other is the parent/child/ spouse etc. You can share purchases like apps and etc. On iTunes itself even if you didn't do this you can have two devices on there with different id's and both will have the music on it since it's not DRM.

So I've came across this link

http://www.ianswerguy.com/manage-devices-with-one-apple-id/

Can you still do this? Might be simpler doing this for my wife's iPhone? Pros/cons of this or family sharing thing?

Thanks

 

[Qbnkelt]

If you share a user ID my impression is that you will get each others' music, media, messages, and contacts. I could be wrong since I've never done that.

Family sharing I believe is what would fit your use case best.

 

[Closingracer]

So I've came across this link

http://www.ianswerguy.com/manage-devices-with-one-apple-id/

Can you still do this? Might be simpler doing this for my wife's iPhone? Pros/cons of this or family sharing thing?

Thanks

There really isn't any con....unless you're afraid of the other person going and purchasing a ton of apps or etc. Family sharing basically allows family members or friends to share apps and etc but with separate id's. I've only seen a few apps that don't allow sharing.

Just read that thing and while it would work family sharing is easier.