Multiple FaceTime addresses for one e-mail address

Mar 16, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: JonLaliberte

If you have multiple FaceTime devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, Multiple Macs, etc. The iPhone's ID is the phone number, but the rest use an e-mail address. If you don't want them all to ring when someone is trying to contact you, then they each need a different address. You could set up a separate e-mail address for each device, but that's a pain.

All you need to do to have multiple IDs per e-mail address is append '+something' to the e-mail address. For example if your e-mail address is jon@example.com and you wanted to have a separate FaceTime address for your iPad and for your Mac you could use: jon+mac@example.com and jon+ipad@example.com.

As an aside, e-mails sent to jon+mac@example.com and jon+ipad@example.com will still go to jon@example.com as well. In general adding '+something' to your e-mail is a useful way to keep track of who is sending you mail (provided the services support it).

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one, yet. As soon as I get an iPad 2 I will revisit this, though.]

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