IOS 12 combining text messages

Deleting conversations from all 5 of our phones is not something I would like to do because all the memorable things from pictures to the conversation itself. This has not been a problem for the past, gosh ever since I’ve had a iPhone 4, I have just kept adding devices for my family. Why is it just now a problem. We have always made sure the settings is set to only send and receive from the phone number attached to that phone. It’s been a really simple process until now and I’m sending messages to 3 of my other phones back and forth they are getting the history of other devices. It’s really crazy and pretty risky thinking that my children may see some of the things that is for my wife’s eyes only. If it was going to be forced on us to make individual Apple IDs for each device then apple should have gotten the word out prior

Xenos8 wrote:

I deleted all the text history on my phone before and after creating new Apple ids. It didn’t help. I also deleted the contacts of my family and recreated them. Did not help either

Once you make that mistake, it's not a simple matter to fix the iPhone. Someone posted a link here (or on another similar thread) with the proper procedures for getting out of this mess. Search the thread and the other threads.

Wow, perhaps Apple could take some "how to clearly state something" lessons from you. I checked the appleid info and it does not clearly state each individual person in your family should have there own Apple ID, as far as I could see. I set ours up when my kids were under 18. Yes, Apple now uses the words, you, yours etc... but as head of the family and owner of all, including the credit card, it still reads as meaning your family. And, if you think I wanted to deal with 4 or 5 separate IDs and passwords every time my childern wanted to download something you’re crazy, Apple's crazy! Anyway, thank you for sharing Apple's policy on the ID and how we're suppose to be using it since apparently they couldn't, (at least as clearly as you).

MrBVan wrote:

my problem is other people who i know sharing ID.

Not my fault.

suggestions? (other than rampaging around the world forcing everyone to create separate apple IDs?)

No one is being forced to create separate IDs. If there are persons that don't care if their systems function properly, they are free to do as they wish.

fournierfamily wrote:

Update from this morning: I'm stuck again and messages are merged. Going to keep playing around and get this sorted out today! Sorry for the false hope 😟

You might wish to try doing things the right way.

This *****!! I hope they resolve it. It is very frustrating and agree creating separate IDs will cause a huge loss of dara for those that will need to create ones in our family. Apple need to come with a fix to sort this out!! Everything is a mess.

So I thought I found a fix to this problem. When I logged into our original Apple account via a computer browser I noticed that even though I separated our Apple accounts all our devices were still attached to this original Apple account that my daughter is still using. So, I did a test and removed my phone from this original account. I then deleted my texting history and rebooted my phone. It appeared to work.....for a day. I was able to txt my son, daughter and wife with no issues. However, this morning I looked at my txt history and my son and daughter are combined again. And here's the best part. My iPhone has reappeared on the original Apple account! GREMLINS!

ifusayso wrote:

This *****!! I hope they resolve it. It is very frustrating and agree creating separate IDs will cause a huge loss of dara for those that will need to create ones in our family.

How will creating separate AppleIDs cause "a huge loss of data?"

I respectfully disagree. It was working before and should work now regardless of the update on IOS. We all as a family use the same ID - and I know we are not the only one. The loss of data will be horrible. I am sure Apple is aware of how many of us (clients) are on the same ordeal and hopefully will resolve. There is more people (families) sharing one ID that you might know. If it was not an issue before should not be an issue now.

Accidentally selected helpful but if there was a way to give an unhelpful I would. I am leaving this thread. People are stating that that have separated their apple IDs and it didn't work. It just feels like you enjoy telling us all how we are doing it wrong. At this point, I would be willing to separate my devices into Apple IDs if I thought it would work. For the high level you have here - It would be nice if you would show some compassion and try to help. Feels like trolling. Goodbye!

I’m not sure how many times we can state the fact in this thread that even after you separate Apple Ids, clear texting history, deleted contacts and turn off iMessage texts from DIFFERENT phone numbers are still combining. If you have nothing new to add please stop telling repeating that we should not be sharing accounts. It’s a bug in a new feature that has to corrrcted.

Oh Great Defender of the Empire (Philly_Fan). I’ve been using shared IDs for the last 5 years and it’s never been a problem. Until iOS12. In fact, so much so, that I’ve never had to come to the forums before to figure out how to use my phone. Up until this point it’s been pretty reliable. When i text Joe, Joe received the message. Not Sally. Seems like an easy enough design requirement. So, omnipotent one, please share the link to the “senior member” thread so I can try to fix what Apple broke. Sorry, it’s called customer satisfaction.

Thank you. You’re clearly the keeper of all wisdom and knowledge. What you fail to address, oh wise one, is that for some of us it has nothing to do with our sharing accounts. Apparently my sister and her kids do or did share an account, and now when I text my sister or nephew, it only goes to my niece. If you don’t have anything constructive to add to the conversation, just stay out of it. We’re lookjng for answers, not useless judgments.

This is causing everyone problems. Even people who don't share Apple ID's. Even you! Though you won't admit it. Constantly condemning people for sharing an Apple ID changes zero, nada, zip, diddly-squat, nothing, zilch, bupkus.

You keep saying we’re supposed to get separate Apple IDs to fix the issue. Please explain how with 4 people sharing an Apple ID, am I the only one having this issue. The other three people on my ID aren’t having issues. Just me. And, it started AFTER I downloaded iOS 12. I did that because the microphones on my son’s iPhone quit working after downloading iOS 11.3. I wanted to try and prevent the microphone issue, but caused other problems.