How do I get my iPhone to not link to my Mac? I thought I had it unlinked but my text messages and phone calls will show up on my computer

Right click on any item in the dock, choose Options/Remove from Dock.

Your apps would be open if you had checked "reopen windows when logging in" when you shut down or restarted your Mac. Uncheck that before shutting down and only startup items would load.

On the iPhone:

• Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices = “off”
• Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding =[off to your Mac]

Of course, your Mac may still send and receive iMessages independently from your iPhone.

Clkramer1 wrote:

I changed the settings on my iPhone, but when I log out of my Mac And log back in, my contacts, FaceTime and messages automatically pop up on the screen.

How do I get this to stop?

First, it’s hard to imagine what “automatically pop up on the screen” means. Surely you don’t mean that literally- out of the blue, these things appear.

Secondly, these items are unrelated to your original post. The remedy rbrylawski and I provided is a “from now on” remedy. It does not deal with previous events.

Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices [Off]

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding [Turn off your Mac]

You may remove an app from your Mac’s dock by simply dragging it off the dock. If you have it set up in System Preferences, you’ll see a clever animation when you do this.