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Can two people share an Apple ID with different phones in iOS 6?

Just throwing a question out there for the Beta testers...

I noticed Apple mentioned today that they are merging Apple IDs and phone numbers in iOS 6.

I see this a potential problem for me as my wife and I use the same apple ID on both of our phones. If iOS merges both numbers to the one ID, I don't want to start seeing her messages on my phone and vice versa. I wonder if this will effect our FaceTime calls as well. Can you call and answer on the same account?

Unfortunately, I'm thinking this may be a way for Apple to force users in my situation into using multiple accounts (and having to repurchase our shared apps).

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TgD

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Apple officially says no to sharing an Apple ID as there is a lot of personal information tied to it. Thus each person should have their own, however this article was posted about a year ago to sort of sidestep the issue

It should still be relatively true for iOS6

www.macstories.net­/stories­/ios­-5­-icloud­-tips­-shari...

Maybe a beta tester can answer more
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My understanding is that you "can" add a phone number to a device which doesn't have one (iPad, iPod touch) but you don't necessarily have to. Once I install the betas hopefully I can give a more solid answer.
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