Separating iPhones from shared Apple ID
My wife and two children have each an iPhone but share one Apple ID. I would like each child to move to a unique Apple ID without a loss of content on their devices, after which we will set up family sharing for access to prior purchases and an iCloud+ account for future backups.
Note: at this time, these three phones are not connected to iCloud photos or backup (they are each backed up to iTunes on a PC) so I don’t believe iCloud will factor into making this change.
I would appreciate confirmation of my understanding that these steps will accomplish that goal:
1) Create two new Apple IDs from PC at applied.apple.com
2) Each child will sign out of each iphone. Photos and contacts will remain on each phone (again, these are not on iCloud), but shared purchases from the original Apple ID won’t be accessible
3) Each child will sign in using one of the new Apple IDs. Each phone will have maintained the photos and contacts that were on the device.
4) None of the above will impact my wife’s iphone (with the original Apple ID, which she will keep)
5) My wife will set up family sharing and an icloud+ account for all three iphones
It feels straightforward but I’m sensitive to potential data loss so I appreciate any correction if I’m mistaken.
