Moving Wife Onto My iCloud Account

[Hrothgar]

My wife had her own iCloud account, using 12 gb of a 50gb account.
However, she was also doing work on my computer, which automatically saved her stuff to my iCloud account -- also 50gb plan.

I'm trying to get her iPhone connected to my iCloud account. We set up Family sharing a while ago. But on her phone, when I go to settings -- iCloud, she's still connected to her account. If I sign out of everything and then sign her back in again -- she's connected to her account. I don't see anywhere that I can tell it to connect to the family iCloud account, which is under my apple id.

Please help, this is driving me nuts.

 

[akadafni]

My wife had her own iCloud account, using 12 gb of a 50gb account.
However, she was also doing work on my computer, which automatically saved her stuff to my iCloud account -- also 50gb plan.

I'm trying to get her iPhone connected to my iCloud account. We set up Family sharing a while ago. But on her phone, when I go to settings -- iCloud, she's still connected to her account. If I sign out of everything and then sign her back in again -- she's connected to her account. I don't see anywhere that I can tell it to connect to the family iCloud account, which is under my apple id.

Please help, this is driving me nuts.

You both would have to use the same Apple ID for iCloud. Family Sharing at this time does not allow you to share the bucket of iCloud storage. There is no Family iCloud. Family Sharing allows you to share content purchases, setup a family calendar and share photos....

 

[Hrothgar]

Well, that sucks. And Apple is far from clear on this issue.
Since we're here -- why is my Desktop and all of its files being uploaded to my iCloud account? Did I do something to permit this? I want it on my computer, not theirs.

 

[akadafni]

Well, that sucks. And Apple is far from clear on this issue.
Since we're here -- why is my Desktop and all of its files being uploaded to my iCloud account? Did I do something to permit this? I want it on my computer, not theirs.

If you are logged in to you profile on a Mac you may want to go to System Preferences>iCloud to see if you have iCloud Drive enabled That's probably why you are seeing the upload of files/documents. Good luck!

 

[960design]

Well, that sucks. And Apple is far from clear on this issue.
Since we're here -- why is my Desktop and all of its files being uploaded to my iCloud account? Did I do something to permit this? I want it on my computer, not theirs.

It is on both your computer and in your cloud by default. I believe it started with Sierra. If you were to drop your computer into the ocean, you could buy a new one, log into your account and have every single file back in just a few minutes. If you turn off this 'feature' then your documents are gone forever... like the old days of before we had the internet of things.
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My wife had her own iCloud account, using 12 gb of a 50gb account.
However, she was also doing work on my computer, which automatically saved her stuff to my iCloud account -- also 50gb plan.

I'm trying to get her iPhone connected to my iCloud account. We set up Family sharing a while ago. But on her phone, when I go to settings -- iCloud, she's still connected to her account. If I sign out of everything and then sign her back in again -- she's connected to her account. I don't see anywhere that I can tell it to connect to the family iCloud account, which is under my apple id.

Please help, this is driving me nuts.

Several ways to handle this...

The right way:

1. Log out of your account
2. Have her log into hers.

Very simple to have multiple users on a mac.


Another way ( and to fix what you have now ):

1. Open iCloud.com from safari
2. Have her log into her iCloud account
3. Open where she saved her files
4. Drag and drop directly into her documents within the browser ( iCloud )