This iCloud backup includes purchases from the iTunes Store that were made with a different Apple ID

I backed up my wife's old iPhone 6 to her iCloud account, and ordered her a refurbished iPhone 10 from apple.com. Today we got her iPhone 10 in the mail. I powered off her iPhone 6, swapped the sim card over to the iPhone 10, powered it on, and followed the set up instructions. I choose the option to restore from an iCloud backup, and selected the backup that I created yesterday. After some various screens, we received the message:


"This iCloud backup includes purchases from the iTunes Store that were made with a different Apple ID. Enter the Apple ID password for "staceyhawking@yahoo.com" to restore these purchases."


That is not my wife's name, we have no idea who that is, and we do not recognize that email address at all.


At this point my wife and I were concerned that someone possibly compromised her account and somehow ordered things from the credit card associated with her apple ID and somehow used it on their Apple ID. I called Apple support, and the younger guy said he had no idea what it could be. I suggested that maybe it was residual data form the last user from the phone being refurbished, and he said yes, that was it. He wasn't very confident in his answer, hence me posting here.


I still thought it was very weird, so I did a full reset, with "Erase All Content and Settings", and repeated the process from scratch. Again I received the same message, so it appears that the data is included in our backup. We went through our entire 6 years of purchases associated with my wife's Apple ID, and it was nothing but $0 charges for free apps that she recognized, and $0.99 cent charges for our 50GB of iCloud Storage.


At this point, on that screen with the unknown address, I choose the "skip this step" and continued the set up process. When finally getting to the home screen showing all of her apps, another message popped up "Sign in to iTunes Store. Enter the password for your Apple ID "staceyhawking@yahoo.com".


I am afraid we will run into problems further down the road, and I find it hard to believe that Apple wouldn't completely wipe a refurbished device, leaking someone else's Apple ID to us.


Anyone have any idea what is going on, or where this unknown Apple ID is getting pulled from?

iPhone X

Posted on Aug 14, 2019 3:43 PM

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Aug 15, 2019 3:19 PM in response to Eric Root

You say one option is to delete the apps/purchases made by the other ID, but how is it possible to know what those are? The just tells us that some things were purchased by that unknown ID, it doesn’t tell us what. And as for reviewing our purchase history, as I said in the original post, “We went through our entire 6 years of purchases associated with my wife's Apple ID, and it was nothing but $0 charges for free apps that she recognized, and $0.99 cent charges for our 50GB of iCloud Storage.”


We recognize everything in our purchase history, and everything on the phone. So I assume there is some “behind the scenes” way that the unknown Apple ID is associated on our phone, and Apple seems to be unable to tell us what that is. And frankly, that’s concerning.

Aug 15, 2019 10:44 PM in response to nzimmerman91

So I assume there is some “behind the scenes” way that the unknown Apple ID is associated on our phone, and Apple seems to be unable to tell us what that is. And frankly, that’s concerning.

The only ways for another account's content to get on the phone is directly logging onto that account on the phone and downloading content from the store, or syncing content from that account from a computer's iTunes library.

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