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Phone rings mine and my wife's at the same time
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There is no legitimate use case for sharing iCloud accounts. A "same photos" work around is not a legitimate use case.
Use a Shared Album if you insist on sharing photos.
Yeah, I get idea why you and others are saying that you shouldn't share an icloud account. But I didn't say that anyone should share icloud. I said that we shouldn't tell anyone not to; meaning if it's working for them. If a couple was sharing icloud accounts and were getting the same imessages, calendars, contacts, etc and they didn't want it that way, they obviously wouldn't/shouldn't be sharing their icloud then for long.
This really blows. We run a small business and share the same contacts and calendar (not to mention the same photos and music). One of the nice apple features to us was the fact that when she put in a new contact or appointment, it immediately showed up on my phone. Argggghhhh.
I tried to add her apple ID to the "family plan" and i keep getting an error saying I need to add in my birthday. (?????) I am going to just turn off this Handoff and see what happens.
I tried to add her apple ID to the "family plan" and i keep getting an error saying I need to add in my birthday. (?????) I am going to just turn off this Handoff and see what happens.
Geez people. If sharing an account is working for me and others to our satisfaction, then be it. Is it really wrong that we really like to share our photos the way our phones are setup and everything else is working well for us?
Why would you share an Apple ID in the first place? Not trying to be derogatory, just genuinely wondering.
Why not? We have different iMessage accounts, separate FaceTime accounts, but we share the contacts, photos, music and calendar. It's called marriage.
You both should have separate icloud accounts then share the iTunes account this will solve your problem and let you both have all the apps.
For my wife and me, we shared an itunes account but had our separate icloud accounts. We had a baby, wanted to share pictures, looked into sharing icloud accounts to have the same photo stream, everything else worked fine...done.
An added benefit to us having the same photo stream is for when I upload non-iphone camera pictures to Aperture. The photos that get imported there is setup to also automatically get uploaded to the photo stream. These show up on both our phones. If we had separate photo streams, this wouldn't be possible or a huge pain. Aperture/iphoto only lets you upload to 1 icloud account.
Again...we have a newborn...pictures are a big deal to us right now.
Nope. It's called being under your wife's authority. WHY would my lady want all the contacts of my bros, all my music etc. is beyond me. We are goddamn different people, we are not THE ONE.
Yeah, I was proven wrong and reminded that sharing apps is not part of the icloud account. But see my reply above.
Use same iTunes/app store ID. Different icloud IDs.
Set up shared stream for each other on each device.
Then choose: newborn or hand off. i'd choose a newborn. but then again, i can't stand people taking 100 photos of their babies everyday from every possible angle in every possible position, so just going into photos, selecting a few and sharing them wouldn't be a problem for me. but hey. you can actually choose, so....
Yeah, I was proven wrong and reminded that sharing apps is not part of the icloud account. But see my reply above.
no sweat I am getting my daughter off our iTunes account then I will share show she does not have to re buy everything. no clue on the pics but you maybe could use dropbox to share them?
I don't care what you do.
But don't come here and complain about how it works when you're doing it wrong. That is all.
I understand this about as much as the people that are mad because Apple sent them the U2 album. I just saying that our phones should not ring because we share an iCloud account.
TURN OFF HANDOFF. IT RELIES ON THE ICLOUD ACOOUNT. Damn, is that THAT difficult to understand?
My wife and I had a similar set up but I got kinda sick of all the hair style and celebrity pics in my photo stream so I made her use her own....we still shared my AppleID for purchases though until iOS 8.
Now she can use her own across the board and still have access to my purchases.
It's not like you CAN'T (rather easily I might add) share pics of your newborn if you use seperate accounts.
Heck, I've had this same thought - but I'll want to share those pics with our family and friends so a shared photo stream that we can all add to will be perfect.
Look, we all understand the issue here - but you are using iCloud outside of the intended way. Can't really complain at this point.....
Either you move to sharing photos via a shared photostream or you continue getting your wife's phone calls (and vice versa).
Why'd you even bother if all you wanted was a roommate.Some people do grow close together in marriage and do blend their lives together. It's actually more normal than not. Contacts, music, schedules, notes, pictures. keychain, finances, are the same. You can have different playlists but why pay for Match twice? why pay for iCloud storage twice. We have only one shared computer at home and have the same iCloud Drive documents. We have a shared email account along with two separate ones too. Marriage isn't a competition to get more power and authority over each other. Its about doing life together and so much more. [/rant]
Back on track, the key here is to log in with different AppleIDs in the FaceTime settings. This keeps our phones from both ringing. Same with iMessage. Sign into those specific settings with different accounts.
You have hope to resolve this. One of you take your existing account (A) and the other will have to set up a new iCloud account (B).
Then under iCloud settings on the iOS device controlled by A, turn on Family Sharing. Send an Invite to B. As soon as B accepts, you will have a new photostream album called "family" that you are both a part of. Any other albums from before A can share with B.
Now you have separate accounts, but access the shared things you want!
Some people do grow close together in marriage and do blend their lives together. It's actually more normal than not. Contacts, music, schedules, notes, pictures. keychain, finances, are the same. You can have different playlists but why pay for Match twice? why pay for iCloud storage twice. We have only one shared computer at home and have the same iCloud Drive documents. We have a shared email account along with two separate ones too. Marriage isn't a competition to get more power and authority over each other. Its about doing life together and so much more. [/rant]
Back on track, the key here is to log in with different AppleIDs in the FaceTime settings. This keeps our phones from both ringing. Same with iMessage. Sign into those specific settings with different accounts.
HOLY HELL, all this bickering was for nill (I think). The handoff feature is in the Facetime settings, which can be separate from the icloud account. This was fun