Family sharing has an old phone number, cant work out how to change - the actual apple account has a new number but family sharing still has an old one?

Family sharing has an old phone number, cant work out how to change - the actual apple account has a new number but family sharing still has an old one?

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 3:54 PM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2020 4:27 PM

Uglyminer wrote:

Family sharing has an old phone number, cant work out how to change - the actual apple account has a new number but family sharing still has an old one?

family Sharing doesn't have phone numbers. Trusted devices for 2 Factor Authentication do.


If you can't sign in to appleid.apple.com to change the phone number for your trusted device, you will have to ask for account recovery.


see >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204915

see >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204921



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Aug 6, 2020 4:27 PM in response to Uglyminer

Uglyminer wrote:

Family sharing has an old phone number, cant work out how to change - the actual apple account has a new number but family sharing still has an old one?

family Sharing doesn't have phone numbers. Trusted devices for 2 Factor Authentication do.


If you can't sign in to appleid.apple.com to change the phone number for your trusted device, you will have to ask for account recovery.


see >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204915

see >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204921



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