Why is family sharing sending us all the same messages?

My family have family share, on all of our iCloud accounts. On my iPad I have been receiving my dad’s messages. If it helps, the iPad used to be on my dad’s account.

iPad, 14

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 12:37 PM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2020 12:57 PM

Sounds like Messages is still logged in to your Dad's account.


Go to Settings->Messages->Send & Receive and check what Apple ID is logged in there.

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Dec 21, 2020 1:03 PM in response to ZonateOx

Are you signed into his iCloud account on the iPad? There is no way that I can envision that you would be getting his text messages without sharing an Apple ID or an iCloud account.


I speak from some experience. For years my wife, daughter and I all shared on Apple ID for purchases. We never got each other’s text messages or shared any content at all because we didn’t share an iCloud account. I finally set them up with their own Apple ID’s and set up family sharing a few years ago.

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Why is family sharing sending us all the same messages?

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