Why are my husband's photos invading my photos library and vice versa why are my TextEdid files etc. invading my husbands iPad? We have have two distinct id's.
I tried to delete some of his photos on my iPod touch and they were deleted universally. I can't get them back.
iPhone 8
On each phone go to Settings and tap on the name at the top. Are the two email addresses there different? If they are different, might they be aliases (e.g., xyzzy@icloud.com and xyzzy@me.com). The symptom you are seeing is both devices are sharing an Apple ID account for syncing purposes. Having different IDs for the iTunes & App store or other functions does not count.
If the photos are at iCloud.com/Photos, once you check photos again, his photos should sync back. If you are sure the two IDs are now separate, delete the photos while syncing to iCloud. As a test, delete one photo and see if the photo remains on his device/computer.
Thanks I did have some Apple id's misplaced but nothing I have done places the files where they should be. The problem is still there. How do I get this straightened out. That is, how do I eliminate his photos from my devices and how does he eliminate my files from his w/o deleting them forever. Please help.
Thank you.
Our Apple IDs are not the same. I already signed out on two Macs and resigned in. Signing out is very drastic it is not to be taken lightly.
All devices are signed in properly now but it is too late we both have each others unwanted stuff. All I want to do now is straighten out and clean up my files.
How about if in iCloud's Preferences I just uncheck the checkbox for photos and when it's unchecked I delete his photos and then check photos again. Will that allow me to eliminate his photos from my id while they remain on his id.
Thank you.
Our Apple IDs are not the same.
I already signed out on two Macs and signed in again. Signing out is very drastic it is not to be taken lightly.
All devices are signed in properly now but it is too late we both have each others unwanted stuff. All I want to do now is straighten out and clean up my files.
How about if in iCloud's Preferences I just uncheck the checkbox for photos and when it's unchecked I delete his photos and then check photos again. Will that allow me to eliminate his photos from my id while they remain on his id.
You each need to have your own, separate, distinct Apple ID.
You are welcome. Did you check at the link I posted to see if both email addresses showed there?
If the Apple IDs for iCloud are the same all iCloud content will appear on both phones. The IDs for other things don't matter; only the IDs at the top of the Settings screen. And what you describe means that those IDs are the same. To unravel this you need to change one ID (probably yours, from what you describe. But you also want to preserve some data that is shared currently so try this:
After all this is done you can delete irrelevant data from either phone without affecting the other phone.
BTW, before Family Sharing came about a lot of people shared Apple IDs, and it didn't matter because iCloud didn't yet support syncing. it's only since the syncing features were added a couple of years ago that it suddenly did matter.
Thank you.
Our Apple IDs are not the same.
I already signed out on two Macs and resigned in. Signing out is very drastic it is not to be taken lightly.
All devices are signed in properly now but it is too late we both have each others unwanted stuff. All I want to do now is straighten out and clean up my files.
How about if in iCloud's Preferences I just uncheck the checkbox for photos and when it's unchecked I delete his photos and then check photos again. Will that allow me to eliminate his photos from my id while they remain on his id.
Thanks. We do have our own distinct id's that is the problem. The problem probably came about at the beginning of our Apple Id lives when we were not very careful with them.
Yes. Only one email address is shown at a time and no email address is shown if "Remember me" is not checked.
cross contamination between 2 apple id's
