Merged Voicemails after IOS 17 Update

You can easily share a calendar, even without family sharing. As for contacts, the simplest way to deal with that is to set up a shared 3rd party email account, gmail, outlook.com, etc. to which you can both sync for contacts. You don’t even actually have to use it for email, just turn on the contact sync for that account.

Thanks, KiltedTim. I'm not super tech-savvy, so if you have any links to articles with step-by-step instructions for both the calendar and the contacts setup that would be great. If not, no worries I will google away. Sharing an Apple ID has worked pretty smoothly for us for 10+ years which is why it is hard to change.

Thanks, but I'm not worried if my wife gets my voicemails and vice versa. Sharing one Apple ID is so much easier for the sharing of contacts. Some day we may have to change but for now, we will roll with one.

Apple is not "enforcing" one Apple ID per user.

iCloud is an evolving platform. It is enhanced with new and improved features with every release of iOS.

If you choose to share an ID with another person, things are going to get messy. When they do, don't expect help.

I have the same problem but it isn’t me sharing an account with someone. I personally have 2 iPhones. I have one that is my personal phone and one that is my work phone. I do not want to have my work voicemails on my personal phone and I do not want my personal voicemails on my work phone.

However, I also don’t want to have to pay for a family Apple Music to be able to listen to my music at work as well as at home just because I have 2 devices.

Is there any solution that allows me to separate my work and personal phone features but not have to pay for Apple Music twice other than abandoning Apple Music and using Spotify?

Pappys5 wrote:

My source was direct in the reply above. eelsswimmer38 said he was going to use Spotify instead of Apple Music if he had to create a separate appleID.

Realistically, a company that is worth billions is not going to be much concerned about one or even a couple of thousand people switching to Spotify. Unless/until enough people do to affect the bottom line, Apple doesn't have a financial incentive to make changes. They may have other reasons to do so, especially if they get enough complaints.

I am not aware of any formal notification / demand from an Apple to not share an ID on diff devices.

Fix better come soon. Much feedback has been submitted to Apple directly and this is a huge exposure.

I’m not “sharing” an Id with 2 people. I just want one Apple ID across all my devices. Doesn’t seem to be that hard. They make a big deal about having everything connected with your appleID. For me this is 2 phones, iPad and mac.

Changing Apple ID would fix the problem but it never was like that before. I’ve had 2 iPhone's with the same Apple ID since 2015. The phones work great before the iOS 17. Please fix the problem without the solution of changing Apple ID.

Thank you

I share an Apple ID with my underage son. I need to see what he is downloading, etc. he does not need to hear my voicemails. In addition to my voicemails showing up on his phone occasionally all of my voicemails are deleted. All after the update! This is an Apple problem not. Att.

I share an Apple ID with my underage son. I need to see what he is downloading, etc. he does not need to hear my voicemails. In addition to my voicemails showing up on his phone occasionally all of my voicemails are deleted. All after the update! This is an Apple problem not. Att.

I share an Apple ID with my underage son. I need to see what he is downloading, etc. he does not need to hear my voicemails. In addition to my voicemails showing up on his phone occasionally all of my voicemails are deleted. All after the update! This is an Apple problem not. Att.

parental control offers no ability to talk to the child about what they couldn’t download. Regardless, apple is obviously not concerned about their customers, to make such a drastic change without any heads up. And then to deny it is a problem! As a widow full time working mother I have not the time to continually go through the significant changes apple throws our way! But have to keep an I phone for work! I did share my issues on the apple website but wanted to make others aware of how this affects children as well!

I share an Apple ID with my underage son. I need to see what he is downloading, etc. he does not need to hear my voicemails. In addition to my voicemails showing up on his phone occasionally all of my voicemails are deleted. All after the update! This is an Apple problem not. Att.

The fact is you are in the minority and millions of parents use Parental Controls on their child's iPhone, with them having their own Apple ID.

I'm glad you shared your thoughts with Apple. I don't think Apple will flex on this, but if enough people complain, Apple has been known to make a change. Whether they will with this, only Apple knows.