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My wife and I share the same Apple ID. We each have an iPhone. I want both of the health apps to collect data from the respective user. But my data is showing on my wife's phone and vice versa. Is there a way to get the two phones to record separately?
iPhone 6s, iOS 11.2.6
Unfortunately, after applying that "remedy" I learned that Photo's no longer share foto's automatically on my wife & my iPh6's ... so we have to choose between 2 mutually exclusive options:
#1 - use one (1) AppleID and have the same library of pictures on both iOS-machines and on our two (2) MacBookPro's and on my (old) iPad but "add up our steps etc " in the Health_APP = un-workable & contra-logically-indicated
#2 - use two (2) AppleID's and have separate Health-APP-data (= logical & as should be) but have separate & maintain each our own picture-Photo-gallery's ...
I predict that one (1) Apple-expert-nerd will reply with the following advice:
use option #2 and create a shared album in Photo's & select/swipe/move (only) the images that you want to share with your wife ...
Unfortunately, after applying that "remedy" I learned that Photo's no longer share foto's automatically on my wife & my iPh6's ... so we have to choose between 2 mutually exclusive options:
#1 - use one (1) AppleID and have the same library of pictures on both iOS-machines and on our two (2) MacBookPro's and on my (old) iPad but "add up our steps etc " in the Health_APP = un-workable & contra-logically-indicated
#2 - use two (2) AppleID's and have separate Health-APP-data (= logical & as should be) but have separate & maintain each our own picture-Photo-gallery's ...
I predict that one (1) Apple-expert-nerd will reply with the following advice:
use option #2 and create a shared album in Photo's & select/swipe/move (only) the images that you want to share with your wife ...
No, there is no other way. Everything on an iOS device is tied to the AppleID - iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, the Stores, health app - everything. If you use a single AppleID for any of those, you share the same account and all Account data.
AppleIDs are explicitly personal identifiers for Apple services and features. They were never intended to be shared, and there is no way to share an AppleID and keep data separate nor private.
Just to complete the picture for anyone else with this issue, I subsequently set up a separate ID for my wife and implemented Family Sharing and all is now fine. And it wasn’t particularly complex.
The thing is: you can (with a lots of work) separate your data from the date of your wife by exporting the Health activities (at the end is an XML that you need to edit ... big XML 🙂)
But if you continue to use the same Apple ID all the data will be synchronized again, so please use two Apple ID.
You have to use two AppleID.
Thanks. I was hoping that I could get by without doing that as it looks complex to switch my wife to a separate id, even with home sharing. Does anyone know if there is another way?
How to separate health data on shared apple id
