How do I stop sharing text messages between iPhones?

How to keep personal messages from showing up on a shared iPad

Here are your options for stopping personal messages from going to a shared iPad.

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How to keep personal messages from showing up on a shared iPad
How to Prevent iMessages From Accidentally Appearing On Other Devices
See All the Devices You’re Signed Into
Turn Off iMessage On Extra Devices
Share Your Purchases Without Sharing Your Private Data
Enable Two-Factor Authentication
Why Am I Getting Other People's Texts on My iPhone?
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Sharing an iPad with a spouse or family member is a common occurrence. Maybe you have a common iPad in your kitchen, or use it in the living room to read the news or check email while you watch TV. If you used an Apple ID to set up the iPad initially, you might find that personal iMessages are unintentionally ending up on your shared device.

Here's what you can do if personal messages are showing up on a shared iPad.

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How to Prevent iMessages From Accidentally Appearing On Other Devices

Thorin Klosowski

4/12/17 2:13PM

If you own multiple Apple devices, you’ve probably signed into all of them with your Apple ID. You’ve also probably noticed that when you get a Facetime call your computer rings, or when you get an iMessage your iPad beeps. For most of us, this is a small annoyance worth fixing. For others, it’s a potential privacy nightmare.

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See All the Devices You’re Signed Into

First things first, lets give your Apple ID a little audit to see every device you’re signed in on.

Head to your Apple ID page and log in.
Scroll down to the Devices section and take a look at where you’re logged in.
If there’s a weird or old device here, click on it, then select Remove to log out.

Now, you should know exactly what devices you own that are still linked up to you Apple account.

Turn Off iMessage On Extra Devices

You probably do not want to log out of you Apple ID entirely on every device. Good news though, you can turn off just Messages (and Facetime, while you’re at it).

How you do so depends on which device you’re on:

On iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

If you don’t want iMessages showing up on an iPad or on an old iPhone, it’s easy to disable:

Open up Settings > Messages.
Set the iMessage toggle to off.
You may also want to disable Text Message Forwarding, which sends regular non-iMessage SMS messages from your phone to Messages on your Mac or iPad. Tap the Text Message Forwarding option, then uncheck any devices you do not want SMS messages to go to.

On a Mac

If you don’t want iMessages showing up on your Mac, you just need to log out:

Open up Messages.
Click Messages > Preferences, then select the Accounts tab.
Select your iMessage account, then click the Sign Out button.
To log out of Facetime, open Facetime, then head to Facetime > Preferences, then click Sign Out.

Now, your messages won’t sync up anywhere you don’t want them to.

There’s a chance that one reason you might be signed into your Apple ID on multiple devices is because your family doesn’t want to purchase the same apps, music, or movies multiple times. Well, in that case, you’re doing things wrong. Don’t share your account with your family; set up Family Sharing so you can both have individual accounts.

With Family Sharing, you can share each other’s iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases without actually sharing accounts. This means your phone calls, iMessage conversations, Safari browsing history, photos, and everything else that’s linked to your Apple ID remains yours and yours alone. With Family Sharing, one person is the family organizer who sets it all up. That organizer adds other users to the account, then confirms any purchases someone else in the group tries to make. Theoretically, you could also do this with your personal account and a work account, which would help keep private data private.

Again, set up here depends on which devices you have:

On an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

Go to Settings and tap your Apple ID.
Tap Set Up Family Sharing, then tap Get Started.
Tap Continue to agree to being the Family Organizer, then follow the rest of the instructions to add additional members to your family group.

From here on out, you can manage, remove, or add new family members by heading to Settings > iCloud > Family.

On a Mac

Open up System Preferences.
Click iCloud.
Click the Set Up Family button, then follow the rest of the instructions to add additional members to your family group.

You can now manage, remove, or add family members by heading to System Preferences > iCloud > Manage Family.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Finally, the last thing you’ll want to do is enable two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. This not only secures your Apple ID and every device connected to it, it also prevents you from doing anything on accident in the future because it requires a few extra steps to sign in. With two-factor authentication, when you sign into a device for the first time, you need to authorize it with a verification code sent to another, trusted device.

For example, if you get a new MacBook, you can’t sign into your Apple ID on that MacBook until Apple sends a code to your iPhone. Yet again, set up depends on which device you’re on. This might sound cumbersome, but Apple’s implementation is less annoying than other options, and the security is well worth it.

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Open Settings, then tap your Apple ID.
Tap Password & Security.
Tap Turn on Two-Factor Authentication, then follow the directions on screen to finish the set up process.

On a Mac

Head to System Preferences > iCloud > Account Details.
Click the Security tab.
Click Turn on Two-Factor Authentication and follow the directions on screen to finish the set up process.

Now, your Apple ID is not only secure, it’s also much less likely you’ll accidentally sign into a device without realizing the repercussions of doing so.

Beyond all that, one final thing: do not link your personal accounts to your company-issued devices, especially if you work for the state. It’s not only bad form, it’s also a privacy nightmare. Besides the fact that you may potentially look like a dummy when someone in your IT department figures it out, most company-issued devices grant access to everything you do on that device to your company. Which is to say, if you send an idiotic, racist, scandalous, or whatever other stupid message to a friend on that device, your company might just happen upon it.

Why Am I Getting Other People's Texts on My iPhone?

by Chelsey B. Coombs on December 16, 2015
in iPhone/iPad Apps, Phones and Mobile, Mobile Apps, Tips & How-Tos, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 :: 15 comments

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Back in the age before smartphones (scarily enough, it really wasn’t so long ago), if you had a cell phone, it was yours and yours alone. It didn’t need to be connected to an email account just to work, and if your kids used it, it was just to play Brick Breaker. A lot of us eventually upgraded to the iPhone, and as the kids came along, brought them into the iPhone/iPad fold by putting our Apple IDs onto their devices.

Of course, what was once the easiest solution for getting a new device up and running has now become a nightmare: you’re getting messages from your kids’ friends about Minecraft, and they’re getting messages about Mom’s wine club. Yikes.

And with Apple’s introduction of Continuity with iOS 8, which lets all of your devices work in tandem and receive notifications at the same time, the problems have gone even deeper.

It can be really annoying, but fortunately, it’s easy to stop the iMessage madness.pan

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Contents

1 How To Stop Sharing Messages On Iphone?
2 How do I stop sharing text messages between iphones?
3 How do I stop two iphones from syncing Messages?
4 How do I stop getting my wifes Messages on my iPhone?
5 How do you turn off sharing between Apple devices?
6 How do I stop my text messages from going to my husbands phone?
7 Why is my phone linked to another iPhone?
8 How do I unlink two iPhones from each other?
9 Why are my messages appearing on another iPhone?
10 How do I stop two iPhones from syncing contacts?
11 Why does my wife get my text messages on her iPhone?
12 Why is my wife getting my text messages on her phone?
13 Can someone see my texts with my Apple ID?
14 How do I stop my iPhone from sharing messages with my iPad?
15 How do I unlink my iPhone and iPad text messages?
16 How do I stop sharing between iPhone and iPad?
17 How do I separate two iphones with the same Apple ID 2021?
18 Why are my husbands contacts showing up on my iPhone?
19 How did my contacts get on my wife’s iPhone?
20 How do I unlink a phone number from iMessage?
21 How do I stop sharing call history between iphones?
22 How do I stop my iPhone from syncing?
23 How do I turn off phone sharing?
24 How can I Unshare my iPhone?
25 How do I Unshare my contacts on iPhone?
26 Why am I getting text messages meant for someone else?
27 Can my spouse see my text messages?
28 Can someone read my texts without me knowing?
29 Can someone else read my texts?
30 How do I stop iMessages going to all devices?
31 How do I remove iMessage from my iPad?
32 Can someone see my iMessages from another device?
33 How do I stop my iPhone from sharing photos?
34 How do I remove my husband’s Contacts from my iPhone?
35 How to stop getting someone elses Imessages and Calls. Hint you are using the same Apple ID
36 Stop Reciving Messages On Multiple IOS Apple Devices
37 How to fix receiving someone else iMessages and Facetime call in your iPhone
38 Stop Sync Messages on iPad and iPhone | Unsync iMessages from iPad and iPhone