After iOS 17 update we are receiving each other’s voicemails on our iPhone

Voicemail sharing between numbers is extremely irritating to me because I have two iPhones, one provided by my employer and one that is personal. I don't want personal voicemail accessible on my work device. Years ago, I tried having two separate Apple IDs, and that was a nightmare. I'm tired of tech companies (Apple isn't the only one) deciding what we should be doing instead of facilitating what we need or want to do.

You should never have a personal Apple ID on a work phone. Legally, that makes your employer the owner of all data associated with the Apple ID. Apple designs their systems to work a specific way. They don’t stop you from using it in ways that it is not designed for, but they also won’t provide workarounds for users who don’t want to use it the way it was designed.

ineedhelphappy wrote:

If this were the first time we had this issue with Apple then maybe I’d agree, but it’s not. It’s very much an Apple issue, but I can’t remember how to fix it.

It likely won’t be the last time you’ll have issues with the non-recommended sharing of an Apple ID too, particularly if somebody sharing that Apple ID makes a mistake, or decides upon an abusive or malicious course. Bricked devices are no fun.

HoopSTB wrote:

LISTEN TO YOUR CLIENTS APPLE!!!

I like the data privacy provided by an Apple ID, and have difficulty imagining sharing an Apple ID with another.

There’s far too much that can go wrong when sharing with multiple people, and I also wouldn’t be able to access and utilize my data (passwords, mail, and increasingly everything, and now including voicemail) across all of my own devices.

Two-factor authentication codes and notifications can get mis-routed with sharing enabled, too.

I’d also prefer to avoid the problems that arise should someone involved in the sharing becomes annoyed or angry or abusive, or decides to engage in criminal activities as can sometimes happen, due to the damage and bricking and legal entanglements and worse. Nobody needs their own critical communications tied to an abuser.

And I can change the password as and when needed. Without first coordinating with everybody else.

Same here! We definitely will not create a new ID would be a mess. Like you, we ALWAYS shared ID and never had any problem. Now the other problem we are having is the silent that does not silence anymore the calls, super annoying.

If you refuse to follow Apple's guidelines, then what you are experiencing will result and will not change in the future. 🤷‍♂️

Silencing rings definitely does silence calls for any call not belonging to a user you have set to ring through in silence mode.

Allow or silence notifications for a Focus on iPhone - Apple Support

Same, we have shared an Apple ID for 14 years and never had ay issues until the 17 IOS update. Come On Apple support your customers and fix this issue, I am at the point of switching to an Android and I have always been an Iphone user but this is crazy and you are doing nothing to fix it.

See this, which was designed just for families to share content --> Family Sharing - Apple

can we go back to iOS 16?

kurt houser wrote:

can we go back to iOS 16?

You cannot go backwards. Downgrading has never been supported by Apple.

My husband and I have shared an Apple ID for many years with no problems - this voicemail situation started with the latest update

We’ve shared an Apple ID for more than a decade with no problems - this started after doing the latest update

Considering my husband is now getting my voicemails from my doctors off with medical information creating a HIPAA violation, Apple needs to rethink this

I agree! We never had any issues.

would you be able to tell me how to confirm the Apple ID usage is unique?