Separate Apple IDs

Can you set up separate Apple ID accounts? In my case, I would like two different MacBooks to have different documents and exist separately from one another but still be connected to iCloud. How would I do this? I discovered the hard way that deleting files on one MacBook deleted them on the other... Whoops!

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Apr 14, 2022 7:39 AM

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Posted on Apr 14, 2022 7:53 AM

While not a perfect process, and it will likely require at least some manual “transferring” the easiest method - at the high level - is to:


Create a new AppleID for one of your Macs.


Sign one mac out of it’s current AppleID and then into the new.


Create a family of the two AppleIDs with the original AppleID as the organizer.


Share apps and services to the new AppleID from the old.



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Apr 14, 2022 7:53 AM in response to jwright1229

While not a perfect process, and it will likely require at least some manual “transferring” the easiest method - at the high level - is to:


Create a new AppleID for one of your Macs.


Sign one mac out of it’s current AppleID and then into the new.


Create a family of the two AppleIDs with the original AppleID as the organizer.


Share apps and services to the new AppleID from the old.



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