Possible fix?
Apologies if someone's already pointed this out, but I wanted to pop back into the thread to update on a fix that, for now, seems to be working.
Recap:
1. I have six family phones on my account, each logged in under its own unique Apple ID for quite some time before IOS 12 and the cross-texting issue. The "get your own Apple ID" suggestion was not a solution for me.
2. Only three of the six lines in the family were having an issue.
3. We discovered that, despite the affected three phones displaying a unique Apple ID (Settings>>select Apple ID under the picture on the first screen), when looking at the "Send & Receive" screen in the iMessages app (the screen that allows you to select the phone numbers used by the phone), the three impacted phones were all still displaying the same primary Apple ID (the one on my phone from back in the pre-Family Sharing days when we all shared one Apple ID).
4. The other three non-affected family phones correctly displayed the user's unique Apple ID inside the iMessage app.
5. From the iMessages setting, we logged out the two affected phone and re-logged them in under their correct Apple ID.
6. The problem seems to have resolved itself for now.
So, even if you switch your phones to unique Apple IDs (or already had them set that way before IOS 12), try double-checking:
Settings>>iMessage>>Send & Receive. Make each phone is in fact on its individual Apple ID inside the Messaging app.
Hope this helps.
p.s. When we switched to unique Apple IDs some time ago, none of us individually set the iMessage "Send & Receive" screen. For some reason, two of the six phones didn't switch over (mine never changed as it was the original primary/shared Apple ID).
The same problems started yesterday for me. My kids conversation are one. Did anyone find a solution?
Has this been resolved??
Correct me if I'm wrong, but sharing an iCloud account is the only way to have shared access to Apple Calendar correct? That's our only use case but the reason why we use one common iCloud account.
It's not a bug. Forbes is wrong.
I’ll go with Forbes.
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I’ll go with Forbes.
OK. Buy your phone from Forbes.
Family sharing is not the answer for many people also. Photo syncing is practically non existent in family share. Quite frankly family share is half baked at best.
This is exactly what we are experiencing. It’s caused chaos in our home with the merging of contacts and messages. It’s embarrassing!
This is happening to me and it is 2 family members. None of us share the same Apple ID nor do we share the same email or phone number. Very frustrating!
I have had individual Apple IDs across all phones on my account for several months. This problem only arose after IOS 12.
Dan - one simple solution to get away from Apple on calendar is to create a Gmail account such as “peck.fam.cal@gmail.com” - once you have that, everyone can use it on their phones, laptops, etc and you can share, edit, etc a family cal... works great for us and others we know who use this. You don’t use the email, just the cal, notes, contacts if you want, etc.
This issue has been reported by Apple, and are under current investigation.
My merged contacts are now gone from my contact list and will not save them when re-entered....
That's precisely why work/personal phones should have different IDs, one assigned to John Doe and the other assigned to John Q. Doe.
We continue to have the problem no matter how many times we delete the message thread, delete contacts, etc. I’m so frustrated with iOS 12 and this problem!
Why is iMessage combining two contacts into one thread. I can only text back the last one that messaged me. This started with iOS 12
