Can I gain access to text messages of another i phone if I have thier apple id and password

You can configure your iPhone's iMessage settings to that other Apple ID and password and then you get their messages but then you would not get yours.

iMessage can only be configured to be used with one Apple ID at a time. So it is either theirs or yours, unless you have a second iDevice you can configure with the Apple ID.

You could add the other person's email to your "you can be reached by iMessage at" if you also know their email password but you would only get iMessages sent to that email and not those send to the phone number, which would probably the bulk of them.

Jparker1982 wrote:

I was told if you buy another I phone and set it up with there id and password you would gain all there info on thier phone.

Unless they've given you the Apple ID and password, doing so is probably illegal. Not to mention immoral.

You can configure your iPhone's iMessage settings to that other Apple ID and password and then you get their messages but then you would not get yours.

The original question was for text messages, not iMessage. iMessage can go to multiple devices as long as those devices share the same Apple ID. Text messages go to a phone using the IMEI number which must be unique to each device thus text messages destined for one device cannot be sent to multiple devices.

Hi raymond73.

What you are saying is not entirely correct.

I have two iPhones that share a contract with my telephone carrier. The Sim cards on those two iPhones are from the same carrier, tied to the same phone number and on the same contract. The iPhones have different IMEI numbers and yet I get text messages sent to my phone number in BOTH iPhones.

To complicate matters just a bit more, my cellular data iPad has yet one more Sim card from the same carrier and tied to the same contract. It also has a completely different IMEI from either iPhone and of course no phone number included and yet, SOME TIMES, not always, I receive text messages sent to my phone number in my iPad. I am not talking about iMessages now, but SMS text messages.

I am sure what you are saying in your post is generally correct but somehow my carrier seems to manage it so that text messages are received in both iPhones. How I just don't know.

Jparker1982 wrote:

I was told if you buy another I phone and set it up with there id and password you would gain all there info on thier phone.

If you own the phone you want to access then this is not an issue. If you are not the owner of the phone (and the Apple ID) then what you're trying to do is most likely a crime.

I am sure what you are saying in your post is generally correct but somehow my carrier seems to manage it so that text messages are received in both iPhones. How I just don't know.

Well that is indeed interesting. I did not know that carriers would do such. I wonder if that is a problem with the carrier and not something they should be doing? What happens if you sell your phone, the carrier reassigns the number? Will the new owner get your texts?

Out of curiosity what is your carrier?

No. Unless you work for the NSA.