How to Have Two iCloud Accounts on One iPhone: Full Guide

"Can I have two iCloud accounts on my iPhone?" Yes! You can have two iCloud accounts on one iPhone. But there are some limitations. You need to choose a primary account, whether it is your new iCloud account or the old one, for iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, backup, apps, music purchases, etc. Besides, you can have additional iCloud accounts used just as email accounts for emails, calendars, notes, contacts, etc.

How to Have Two iCloud Accounts on One iPhone

“Can I use two iCloud accounts on one iPhone”? Luckily, this part will you how to 2 iCloud accounts on iPhone to transfer and manage data between iCloud accounts. Scroll down for more details!

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Before starting, you need to note that additional accounts can only be used for syncing Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Notes, and Reminders. Here we take Calendar as an example. If you want to transfer all data from iPhone to iPhone, you can jump to the next section directly.

Step 1. Open Settings. Scroll down, find, and tap Calendar.

Step 2. Tap Accounts, and then tap Add Account.

Step 3. Choose iCloud, enter the iCloud account and password you want to add.

Step 4. Enter the six-digit verification code you received on new iPhone.

In addition, you can see the second iCloud account has been added to your iPhone. You can repeat the same steps to add a third, fourth, fifth...account on your iPhone.

Bonus Tip: Free & professional iCloud/iOS Data Management Tool

If you want to manage your iCloud data, transfer iCloud data from one account to another, or try to transfer data more than Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, and Reminders from an old iPhone to a new iPhone, here we would like to introduce the free yet professional iCloud/iOS data management tool AOMEI FoneBackup to you.

It helps you easily manage and sync iCloud data and enables you to transfer all kinds of data from one iPhone to another.

#1. How to Manage and Sync iCloud Data

With AOMEI FoneBackup's fast upload/download speed, you can finish the management process efficiently.

Just launch AOMEI FoneBackup > Go to My iCloud > Log in with your Apple ID to continue. To upload, download or delete iCloud data, choose Manage iCloud to make it. To move iCloud data from one account to another, just choose iCloud sync to accomplish the task.

#2. How to Transfer Data via AOMEI FoneBackup Wirelessly

If your devices are connected to the Internet, then you can transfer photos, music, videos, contacts, or any other files stored in the Files app from iPhone to iPhone wirelessly. You don’t need a computer or a USB cable anymore. Besides, you can also preview your photos before you choose which to transfer.

Step 1. Download AOMEI FoneBackup for iOS on your iPhone.

Step 2. Open AOMEI FoneBackup on both iPhones. Go to Connect Device and tap the avatar on either iPhone to establish a connection.

Step 3. Go to File Transfer, choose anything you want to transfer and tap Send to start.

Notes:✎...

1. You are unable to transfer messages using this method. If you need to transfer messages, you can use the following method.

2. With this mobile app, you can also move data from Android to iPhone without the Move to iOS app.

#3. How to Back Up Data Without a Network Connection

If your devices are not connected to the network, and you need to transfer more than the five types of data we mentioned in the previous section, you can also achieve data transfer with the help of AOMEI FoneBackup on your Windows computer. It has the following advantages:

• Selective transfer process. You can transfer selective photos, videos, contacts, and messages, as well as both purchased and non-purchased music at the same time.
• Fast transfer speed. It just takes no more than 3 seconds to finish transferring 100 photos.
• Wide compatibility. Besides iPhone, AOMEI FoneBackup also supports different types of iPads and iPods. It is perfectly compatible with all kinds of versions of iOS.
• Multiple functions. It enables you to backup your iOS devices without iCloud on your computer to protect data safety and at the same time, transfer data freely between iOS devices.

Note:✎...

If you need to transfer data all at once to your new iPhone which has nothing on it, AOMEI FoneBackup on PC also provides you a choice to transfer data from iPhone to iPhone directly.

Step 1. Download and install AOMEI FoneBackup on your Windows PC. Connect two iPhones to the computer via a USB cable and then launch AOMEI FoneBackup.

Step 2. Click Phone Backup > Locate Selective Backup and click Get Started.

Step 3. Select the data you want to back up.

Step 4. Click each icon to preview, select the items, and click OK to confirm.

Step 5. Choose a storage path and click Start Backup to save the backup to your computer.

Step 6. Unplug the source iPhone plug in the other iPhone and click View to go to the Backup History. Locate your backup files and choose Restore to make it.

Conclusion

This post mainly introduces how to have two iCloud accounts on one iPhone. As we’ve made it clear in the post, adding a secondary iCloud account to a new iPhone doesn’t make it possible for you to transfer some data, like photos or music, from the secondary iCloud to the new iPhone.

Therefore, to help you manage iCloud data and transfer data freely between iOS devices, we recommend AOMEI FoneBackup to you. With this free iCloud/iOS data management tool, you’ll find data transfer and accessing iCloud data become really easy and fast.