My husband and I have a 16 year old son. My husband is the primary on our family sharing. Both have location services set up so we can see where others are. Whenever I click on locations services for my son I see my husband. It's been this way since we started using location services. Now my son is driving, I really would like to get this sorted. How can I separate their locations so I can see my son's location?
Windows, Windows 10
This should not be possible if they are logged into separate Apple IDs.
Ensure they are logged into their own separate Apple IDs by opening the Settings app on their devices and checking the name at the top.
Yeah, we removed device ownership from my Husband. Turns out, even though my son had his own appleID, he was still logged in as my husband. They did a backup of the data, and then were only able to get my son logged in on HIS profile by wiping the phone and going through start up again (this took hours to get to that point). Problem is, the back up is under my husbands ID, not my sons, and we cannot figure out a way to load that into my sons phone, even though my husband controls all the devices as master. So, my son lost all his contacts and game data, his passwords, etc. Not sure if there is a way to resolve that, though. Is there a way to change the appleID associated with a back up?
If you look at Devices do they appear separately?
No, you can’t change the ownership of a backup. As a workaround you can sync data to iCloud (which is completely different than backing up to iCloud. Here’s an explanation:
iCloud+ has 2 independent functions. iCloud backups, and iCloud sync. It’s confusing because they both have the same name prefix. But they have no connection with each other. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud. You will see a bunch of switches (with iOS 16 also tap Show All). When you turn on a switch that data type will sync to iCloud. If you do this on multiple devices that share an Apple ID the selected data will sync to all of those devices.
You can also turn on iCloud Backups. This will back up your phone every night if the phone is plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi and locked.
But note that anything that you sync by the first method will be excluded from the iCloud backups.
Here’s how to use the workaround:
Does your some have a different Apple ID from your husband?
yes, he does. He didn't at first, but has for a couple years and that was reflected in family sharing.
Also, I tried removing him from family sharing, and the location for my son is still my husband. :(
Thank you for all your help. I appreciate it. I'll see what they can do, though they may just decide to not bother at this point. :)
Husband and son have the same location data, cannot separate
