I have two iPhones; one for personal use and the other for business use. However, the calls and texts for my personal line comes through on both devices. How do I remove this feature? Could this be because both phones are using the same Apple ID?
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iPhone SE, iOS 17
As long as you use the same Apple ID on both phones, both will have access to your text messages, phone calls, voicemail. Since they are both your phone, however, you can stop them from getting calls on both as I posted above. you can also stop them from receiving text messages on both phones by again going to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and turn off the number of the other phone on each phone.
Otherwise yes, you can separate the two phones and have separate Apple ID's on each and this will help you do that --> How to “unshare” an Apple ID - Apple Community
Managing two accounts can be tricky. If you do decide to go that route here's a post I have that goes into a bit more detail, in particular about continuing to share items between the accounts:
Apple has no formal account merging or transferring process. The things below will help you in doing ongoing or one-time transfer of as much as possible from one account to the other, but some things can never be transferred (namely purchases), only shared.
You can use various iCloud sharing features for some ongoing data sharing.
Share folders with iCloud Drive --> Share files and folders in iCloud Drive on iCloud.com - Apple Support
Read How to use Shared Albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Apple Support about how to share photos.
Sharing music playlists —> How to share an Apple Music playlist on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
Apps and media bought with one Apple account are permanently associated with that account. Look into using Family Sharing to continue to be able to use items purchased with one Apple account with other Apple accounts, and for some data sharing features.
- Family Sharing - What is Family Sharing? - Apple Support
- Set up Family Sharing - Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support
The next section may sound tricky but it lets you merge some things on a device where you have already signed in with an old account but want to use a new account and incorporate data that is already on the device from the old account. Incidentally, the data will then propagate to other devices using iCloud with that new account. (I haven't tried this with a computer but it may also work with a computer account signed into an old account.)
If you have signed into the first Apple account on a device then fortunately when you sign out of that account it asks you if you wish to retain the data from the old account on your device (toggle the ones you want to on). If you keep data on the device then when you sign in with the other account it will merge this data with the account signing into the device. You can later delete individual items from the old account that you do not want. Similar information can be found in this post: I have 2 apple IDs i want to merge them h… - Apple Community , and a step-by-step in this User Tip: How to “unshare” an Apple ID - Apple Community . Note that only content physically present on the device such as contacts, photos and videos will be retained. Meta data such as a game play scores that are tied to a specific account or are only on a vendor's Apple Account-specific database remotely will not be retained. Also turn off storage optimization before doing this. With Optimize Storage, smaller, space-saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original, full-resolution versions are stored in iCloud. Make sure photo optimization is turned off so the full quality versions from the old account are actually on the device before merging the content into your new account. Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support You can turn optimization back on again once you are fully using your new account on the device.
Even though apps may remain on a device and may work for a while, you will not be able to update them or redownload them unless you buy them again with this account or download them with this account using Family Sharing.
Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac --> Sign out of iCloud on your devices - Apple Support
If this involves a device changing ownership, the person should also change the ID set in Find My. Turn off Find My on your devices and items - Apple Support
If another Apple account is signed in you may need to enter the password for that account to sign out of that account first.
Click on this link to learn how to 'Sign in with your Apple ID' --> https://support.apple.com/HT204053
Thank you for the reply. Just so I understand, I have to crest an individual Apple ID to keep the calls/texts from coming through to both devices? I’d like apps, photos, notes shared. Is that not an available option?
As long as both phones share the same Apple ID, your calls and voicemail will be merged. There is a way to stop both phones from ringing when a call comes in.
Open Settings
Find Phone
Turn off Calls on Other Devices on each phone
Two iPhones with same Apple ID, personal calls/texts going to both
