IOS 12 combining text messages

Since, we don’t use Apple ID, we use our individual phone numbers for messaging, and you seem so smart, why is my phone the only one combining messages and how do I get it to stop?

Apple employees don’t know everything about their own products. One was quoted in a major publication that wireless charging isn’t good for a phone because it uses its own battery to charge itself.

Clearly busy texting in Physics class, and missed the lecture on the first law of thermodynamics.

Clearly missed any and all lessons on logic and common sense.

You were given bad information.

Yes it is.

The problem with that is that at 13 they are not considered a child by Apple.... I have 3 teens, but I cannot restrict their purchases.

If they abuse their phone privileges, take the phones away.

Imesseger

Thanks for the parenting advice..... not sure how it’s relevant 🏼♀

Any Pats answered a question specifically about teens with an incorrect answer..... I was simply pointing out that his solution was not applicable to teens.

Millscdm wrote:

I NEVER ASKED A QUESTION.... I MADE A STATEMENT IN AN ATTEMPT TO CORRECT FALSE ADVICE!!

Please stop shouting. No one has been rude to you. There's just no call for that.

Great advice. Our family has shared an iTunes account for 6 years. Haven't had a problem until we upgraded to ios 12. Maybe apple should fix whatever they broke in this update? This problem persists even when turning off imessage, there is more to it than just the shared iTunes account.

So this problem just arose for me after sharing a family account for over 10 years, again due to this update. After a lot of reading and trial and error, I seem to have solved this solution for my family (somehow we figured this out being hundreds of miles apart across 6 devices).

First, we made sure that all accounts were not directly connected to the apple id for contact purposes. This means going into Settings>Messages>Send & Receive> and making sure the apple Id was logged out and only the phone number of the device was selected. This process was also done for FaceTime. I also turned off iMessage to avoid any more problems from here, although this did not solve the problem and texts were still merging.

Second, I deleted any trace of the numbers/contact information from the contacts whose messages were merging into one thread. Again, because of a shared account, iCloud and apps were picking up their contact information even after simply deleting all traces of them in the contacts app. Also, the individual text message thread (of the merging contacts) was deleted (all group chats did not seem to have an issue).

Last, I restarted my phone by pressing the power and menu buttons. Once turned on, I individually messaged each contact, again, with iMessage off just to be safe, and it worked. Finally two separate threads.

Hopefully this can help other people, not sure if its a perfect solutions, but as the "tech-y" family member, I played around and solved it for us. Good luck!

Alyssa

I also have to disagree. While I did create separate Apple IDs for my whole family and it did correct the issue with my family, there are others outside of my family who share apple IDs. I have no control over what they do and thus the problem still persists. Those people would have no reason to change as the issue may not effect them unless there are more than 2 users sharing an account, but it would effect me and combine their messages. This is a widespread issue that I do not think apple would knowingly create just to prove a point that people should not share Apple IDs.