Merged Voicemails after IOS 17 Update

This isn’t helpful though if you have two distinct phone lines. I want to use my Apple ID on my work and personal phone for apps and, most importantly, seamless AirPod handoff (why I bought the AirPods). I shouldn’t need two Apple IDs to avoid getting work calls on my personal phone.

That’s exactly what forums are for?

I have submitted this feedback to Apple already but looking for a workaround in the interim and “stop sharing Apple IDs” isn’t helpful since that’s not what I’m doing.

100clicks wrote:

Sorry for interrupting, but why you don't like different Apple ID like one each? I'm genuinely curious, do not take me wrong, I'm open to anything

So I have personal and work devices. I used 1 Apple ID for everything. The only thing I couldn’t do was create the new bigger profile emojis because I had 2 numbers associated with 1 ID

Since I created a 2nd ID, issues arose such as:

unable to seamlessly switch AirPods between devices, shared iMessages between devices which enabled me to leave a work device behind occasionally. In general everything feels disjointed which was not the intent of being able to have one ID across ALL DEVICES, because you can’t genuinely keep 1 ID if you have 2 phones as part of that group.

Thanks Apple.

Ok, so I put my wife’s iPhone on her Apple ID and I set up family sharing for our calendars. I was unable to figure out a free solution that would synch changes made to our contact files. Can anyone help me out here? Can anyone help me out here?

You can sync contacts to just about any email account. It doesn't have to be iCloud. You can sync to multiple for that matter.

I sync my contacts to my iCloud account. My wife syncs hers to her iCloud account. We have a gmail account that we both sync contacts to. We don't actually use that account for email. Just common contacts.

I don't need every single one of her friends numbers clogging up my contacts and she doesn't want mine either.

This gives us the best of both worlds.

Very hard to stop sharing an Apple ID. This is not a solution. My voicemails should be based on the phone number not the Apple ID. What if I have a work phone and a personal phone but I use the same Apple ID, why would I on want all of my voicemails to be on both phones? And this will also cause the voicemail to get full more quickly. Whoever came up with this dumb idea should be fired.

That’s the problem with IOS 17. ATT thinks it’s Apple. Apple thinks it’s ATT. Never had any issues last 15 years; however, with 17 our iPhones VMs are merged. I am not a fan of setting up diff IDs like some of these pundits are saying!

But every time you need to update any of the apps downloaded under the previous ID, you'll have to sign out of the new ID and sign back into the old ID, then update the apps, then sign out again, and sign back in with the new ID. As long as that doesn't annoy, you can do what you did.

i used to have a shared ID with wife years ago. VERY RARELY, do I ever have to input her Apple ID as you say. Usually just with phone upgrades or if a major update resets appleID for some reason.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

But every time you need to update any of the apps downloaded under the previous ID, you'll have to sign out of the new ID and sign back into the old ID, then update the apps, then sign out again, and sign back in with the new ID. As long as that doesn't annoy, you can do what you did.

I’m having the same issue with my wife’s and my iPhones. It’s definitely an Apple IOS 17 issue. We do both share the same Apple ID, but we did the same before updating to IOS 17 and didn’t have this issue. I’m on Verizon and my wife is on T-Mobile.

austinrichardlewis wrote:

Maybe it is what Apple wants but do you think Apple should be thinking about what their customer’s want :)

So tell Apple what you think they should do. You can use this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Sorry to bother you, but I'm hoping you may be able to help. The single biggest reason that my wife and I continue to share a single Apple ID is because of our photos. We share the same library dating back decades. We would like to continue having access to the same photos, both from the past and everything going forward. I'm wondering what the easiest way to do this is. This doesn't fall under Family Sharing I believe. So, according to what I've read, it seems that I'd have to move all of our existing photos into a Shared Library and then change the default setting on each phone to save new photos to the Shared library. Am I getting that right? And is there an easier way? Thanks.

Is there any way to fix this problem without wiping everything off all but one phone on the apple ID? My family is all on the same apple ID. We've always been, and have never had an issue until this latest update. I don't see why we should have to wipe everything off all but one phone and start over when it's clearly a problem with the latest update.

The advice to “fix” this is to create separate IDs. I have done that and I cannot find a way to sync contacts and calendars on my phone and my spouse phone. That syncing is very much needed. Where is a step by step process to do that. Telling people to change IDs does not help without giving us info on how ro share what we want to share.

kfox7 wrote:

The advice to “fix” this is to create separate IDs. I have done that and I cannot find a way to sync contacts and calendars on my phone and my spouse phone. That syncing is very much needed. Where is a step by step process to do that. Telling people to change IDs does not help without giving us info on how ro share what we want to share.

That issue has already been addressed in this thread. See KiltedTim's post of November 24th. And, I have no way of knowing what people want to share unless they say. I was addressing one issue and one issue only.