Can I have multiple users on an Ipad

Masala

Hi all
Was looking at getting an IPad 'for the family'. Son in effect any one of 4 of us could pick it up and use it. Question .. Is there a separate user login facility on IPad?? So in effect.... I can check my email, surf my favourites etc and log out when finished. And wife can log in later and can check her email later without seeing all my emails as well?? Am I asking too much from an IPad???

Creamy Goodness

No such thing as user accounts on iPad. You can use family sharing though.

https://www.apple.com/ie/ios/ios8/family-sharing/

Sad Professor

Family Sharing assumes multiple devices, though.

squonk

iOS is single user oriented. There are no user accounts and, while you could set up multiple mailboxes for your family, everybody gets to see mail sent/received by everyone else. I'd bet that multi-user support will be one of the items they introduct with iOS 9. I'd still expect it to be limited though and, if they do something, it probably won't really mature til iOS 10 anyway.

grizzly

Android Tablets support this. I think Apple would prefer you to buy multiple iPads

CathalDublin

No multiple user facility available on IOS, besides having multiple accounts would fill the thing pretty quickly.
If you use gmail you can just sign in and out of the gmail app

biko

Masala wrote: »

Am I asking too much from an IPad?

Yes you are
However, with a jailbroken pad the app "iUsers" can be used. I haven't used it myself so don't know how well it'd fit your needs.

Masala

Well - I suppose if we all are Gmail or Hotmail email addresses.... we could just log in and out of these and read our emails on line inside Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. Therefore - there will be no 'downloading' of emails for others to read!!

That sounds like a solution - have no downloaded email!

caolfx

Masala wrote: »

Well - I suppose if we all are Gmail or Hotmail email addresses.... we could just log in and out of these and read our emails on line inside Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. Therefore - there will be no 'downloading' of emails for others to read!!

That sounds like a solution - have no downloaded email!

murpho999

BadPanda wrote: »

Or use different mail apps.

For example Gmail app for user 1
and Apple mail app with their settings for user 2.

It's not that complicated really.

donutheadhomer

caolfx wrote: »

Would be clever to have multiples of the same app. ie separate gmail.app for each user

MillField

I was hoping that they would add multiple user accounts in iOS 8..