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Icloud question
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Please someone answer this question:
Are iCloud accounts and Apple ID's the same thing?
My entire family uses the same Apple ID to buy Apps, music, or books; yet everyone has their own set of devices. I have an iPhone, an iPad and 2 Macs. My dad has an iPad and an iPhone. My mom has an iPhone and a PC.
Would our AppleID be our iCloud account? In order to avoid having to rebuy apps, do we have to share all of our calendars, photos, and reading lists? OR can we each have our own iCloud accounts, separate from the AppleID?
Are iCloud accounts and Apple ID's the same thing?
My entire family uses the same Apple ID to buy Apps, music, or books; yet everyone has their own set of devices. I have an iPhone, an iPad and 2 Macs. My dad has an iPad and an iPhone. My mom has an iPhone and a PC.
Would our AppleID be our iCloud account? In order to avoid having to rebuy apps, do we have to share all of our calendars, photos, and reading lists? OR can we each have our own iCloud accounts, separate from the AppleID?
This thought never crossed my mind, but having to backup an iPad and an iPhone might take up quite a bit of room. Is there any way of knowing how space a backup will take prior to backing up a particular device?
Each Apple I.D owns its own iCloud. So your entire family would have to share that one I.Ds storage capacity.
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Any music, videos or applications do not count towards your storage limit. Music and video CAN count towards it if you did not purchase the said content from iTunes.
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Any music, videos or applications do not count towards your storage limit. Music and video CAN count towards it if you did not purchase the said content from iTunes.
So basically it's only my apps/app data that will count unless I want it to include my "outside iTunes" purchased music/videos? (If I'm understanding correctly).
Short answer: You are fine. You can register and manage multiple iCloud accounts per apple ID.
Long answer from apple support forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3102518?start=0&tstart=0
when you go into back up it tells you what size the next backup will be at that time, you can individually turn apps off from backing up too. Spotify for me wanted to use over 1Gb so disabled that lol.
