Help an apple noob, ipad user accounts

tigerstyle · 9 Oct 2013 at 22:30

Simple situation and fix hopefully, but it's all new to me so just hoping I don't miss anything along the way. I'm aware you cant really have two user accounts on one ipad.

So I'm going to borrow a 2nd gen ipad temporarily and install a £60 app for work.
I'm then going to buy a new ipad when they're released and give this current 2nd gen ipad model back.

Luckily the 2nd gen ipad has basically no paid for apps/music stuff on it, it's just used for browsing things so should be easy to back up. But how do I make a full clone backup of the 2nd gen ipad, wipe it clean, make my new account and install the app I need? And then is it easy to swap my account to my new ipad later?

TIA!

slinxy · 10 Oct 2013 at 10:46

If you backup the ipad gen 2 on to a machine using itunes, you can make whatever changes you like and then just restore this backup to change it back.

like wise with the your settings on the gen 2 ipad, you can back those up and restore them on the new ipad when you get it.

Apple apps licenses are user based (upto 5 machines) and not machine based, so they tie into your apple ID and not the machine; with a few exceptions.

tigerstyle · 10 Oct 2013 at 10:59

I see, but the problem would be the current gen2 ipad isn't mine, so not my user id, but if I see that I couldbuy 5 new ipads and put my id on each and they would all be ok. That and users cant easily log in/out on an ipad like a windows machine can they?

Just wanted to check the backup did photos, as thats the only personal thing on there really.

slinxy · 10 Oct 2013 at 12:55

you can quite easy switch apple ids on the ipads, the apps will remain on the ipad until its removed but it wont update until the correct/purchased apple id user name and password is used.

so in the app store setting, you can use forget this apple id option, sign in as yourself use it then do the same when you have to give it back and restore their apple id.