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This is still happening to me. All four of us have different Apple IDs, using family sharing. It is also sending them to my sister mistakenly, who has a different Apple ID, different phone carrier, lives in a different state, and is not family sharing. Deleting the thread temporarily fixes the issue, but it comes back. I am tired of everyone saying it is just because people are sharing an Apple ID. WE ARE NOT SHARING AN APPLE ID. Still happens to us, clearly a bug.

Same problem here since iOS 12 Beta. Went back to 11 and just waited for general release of 12 figuring this would be solved along with the horrid FaceTime camera switch delay. I'm kicking myself for not backing up my phone when I was on 11 and upgraded to general release 12. Same thing happened and the Apple tech told me the same thing as everyone was told "gotta have your own AppleID". Well, guess what? I changed my wife and my son to have their own ID and still same problem. It's not an Apple ID issue, it's an iOS 12 issue. One tech actually tried to tell me that my iPhone X was broken...really? My wife and son are having same issues and I told her I guess all 3 devices must be broken then. Funny that works just the way it's suppose to on my Macbook.

Today I was told by the tech that this is a "known issue" and that they're working on a fix and that 12.0.1 update didn't address this nor the FaceTime issue. I guess I will be using Whatsapp to text for now between my an my wife and son.

Forgot to add, when we changed Apple ID's it worked for a few days and then back to the problem. Then I deleted message threads from both my son and wife and it worked again...for a few days. Then Tech had me delete contacts and create them again, fixed again for a few days and same problem comes back. For those that change Apple ID and it starts working (I hope it fixes it for you) I wouldn't get my hopes up. Also if Apple has you delete message threads, and contacts, it will work again but fail again. They asked me to restore my phone, I refused because it's too time consuming and I didn't want to deal with setting up all my financial apps with FaceID all over again, etc, etc.

I have this same problem! My family of 4 shares one Apple IDs. We shared this before family sharing was a thing. But the main reason is because of iTunes Match. We have iTunes Match and Apple music family. But iTunes Match isn’t shareable and Apple Music is horrible for having live version of songs on the studio albums. It’s so irritating so the only way we can listed to the real version not the live is to use or iTunes Match Library. Is there a way to turn off ios12 streamlined messaging or is there a work around to prevent this but still all have access to one single iTunes Match account?

I have the same issue and share the same concerns - I have been on with apple support for the last hour with no resolution. The message below points out the solution of simply not sharing an apple ID - we were originally encouraged to share the ID before family sharing was a thing - once you have MASSIVE numbers of PAID FOR songs it isnt right that they then change the rules so you no longer can listen to your music depending on whether you use your wifes phone or yours.

This is unacceptable. My husband has the same Apple ID for his work phone and personal phone. If the last message he sent was from his work phone, that’s the only phone I can text without having to delete the entire thread. Make this an option Apple. I’ve never wanted to switch from an iPhone until now. I can’t stand messages merging from two different phones.

Also experiencing the pain of not being able to text my wife and daughters' phones using iMessage. We were all under one AppleID, but last night we each established our own AppleIDs and set up Family Sharing, but still having the same issue with iMessage. Can't even send SMS messages properly after turning iMessage off. There must be some reason for this. I have removed the common email address that was on both my and my wife's vCard, but that had no effect. The kids didn't have that email address in their vCards. I think we're migrating our conversations to Facebook Messenger until Apple gets this straightened out.

Thank for this! I did not change any of our Apple Ids yet but went ahead and deleted the “infected” text string with all 3 kids combined text after the IOS 12 update. It seems to be working now. Fingers crossed Apple doesn’t do another update and this same thing will happen again. I could not text my kids individually for a week. I would prefer not to do family share.

I’m a little confused. So are you saying delete all text strings with the people who are experiencing this problem? We had 1 ID. Then set up individual ones. Still have the problem. Our family can’t text each other. If I text my wife it goes to my daughter. Everyone in my family is experiencing similar problems. The only way we can text is through a group text. Apple can’t figure it out.

I am still having the same issues. All of my texts are going to everyone with the same Apple ID even though I have deleted all iMessage strings. Even when I start a new one, it changes the recipient to the last person I sent a message. We have a family of 6 and this is terribly frustrating. Anyone make this work without setting up new IDs for each person?

Same issues here! I’ve used the same if for almost 10 years on all my family’s iPhones. We shouldn’t have to have this streamline feature unless we turn it on. Also for those saying create other id’s, no we shouldn’t have to have our kids on separate id’s. Makes it harder to control and monitor purchases and what they’re doing. Also i do all the updates and upgrades on the phones so having one id is better and all we need.

I’v been working with apple. 6 hours on the phone so far. They just uploaded diagnostics from my phone and iTunes on my computer. Apparently an engineer at apple is trying to figure this out. Hopefully I will hear something today. I will reply what they come up with. Basically our family can’t text each other. I text my wife and it immediately goes to my daughter. We all have a similar problem with who we can and can not text in our family of 4.

NO! NOT SOLVED!! I have this same issue. When I text my daughter, she even gets the message from herself sometimes. Can't text my wife at all. They all go to my daughter. We share the same Apple ID for a reason and we are not going to delete a decade worth of texts. Please help Apple! You are the most powerful company in the world. This simply does not make any sense.