Why should each person have a separate apple id? What should your id be? Does it have to be an email address?
If each person doesn't have their own Apple ID, you'll end up sharing call logs and messages. Also, one person can inadvertently delete something that another person wants to keep. Life will get confusing and messy.
Yes, it has to be an email address.
It can only be a telephone number in a very few limited nations -> Use your mobile phone number as your Apple ID - Apple Support. Everywhere else it must be a valid email address as you must be able to respond to the verification email.
So it has nothing to do with what any of us think should be used. That is how Apple operates the AppleID ecosystem to access their online services.
And all of this is thoroughly documented on Apple’s support site - see the links to support documents already posted here.
Each person should have their own Apple ID to keep their data separate from other people's data.
See if anything here helps.
Apple ID - Official Apple Support
917Nic wrote:
hi, thanks for your reply. did you answer my question? yes and no. the links did state why a person should have his or her own id, and all the other info about its purpose itself, which I already knew...but none of those links supplied any answers to the second and third question. I've heard that a large percentage of people put their email. But some put their phone number. What's the best, a set of letters, numbers -- themilkyway? and why do you think that?
I answered your second and third questions. Yes, it has to be an email address.
Do you share your login IDs for other accounts? No, not if you want to keep your information separate, private and secured. An AppleID is no different than any other login ID you have. If multiple people have it, they all have equal access to everything tied to that login ID, including the ability to delete material, edit material, change the login password, read each other’s messages, emails, etc. They also can all buy things with the payment tied to that AppleID, all have access to the same Apple Pay Cash and wallet.
hi, thanks for your reply. did you answer my question? yes and no. the links did state why a person should have his or her own id, and all the other info about its purpose itself, which I already knew...but none of those links supplied any answers to the second and third question. I've heard that a large percentage of people put their email. But some put their phone number. What's the best, a set of letters, numbers -- themilkyway? and why do you think that?
why should each person have a separate apple id?
