Problems with sharing the same apple account?

foothillfanatic · Sep 22, 2013

My wife and I both got new iPhones a week ago. This is our first experience with a smart phone. I set up both phones using the same Apple account. The problem is, when we send iMessages to each other, both her number and my number show up at the same time on each of our phones with the same message. Is this because we are both under the same account and synced under iCloud? Should she have her own Apple account, and would this solve the problem? Appreciate some help on this.

foothillfanatic · Sep 22, 2013

I saw Briffdog's question after I submitted mine. I think we have the same issue.

Mickey330 · Sep 22, 2013

In your Settings app, under Messages, just make sure you both don't have the same contact information. My suggestion is to use your phone numbers as the main contact - and don't have the other's number. Also, if you use an e-mail address as an alternate contact, again, don't use the same one.

You can have the same AppleID. Just don't share the same contact info.

Hope this clarifies.

Marilyn

foothillfanatic · Sep 22, 2013

That helped! Thanks!

kruseanderson · Sep 23, 2013

What I did was basically create a his, hers, and ours accounts. The ours has our apple store and apps, etc. it is loaded as thesis icloud account on every idevice we have. Then put the his or hers on second. Then I can turn on or off whatever things we want to share or not share. Works great for us.

foothillfanatic · Sep 24, 2013

kruseanderson said:
What I did was basically create a his, hers, and ours accounts. The ours has our apple store and apps, etc. it is loaded as thesis icloud account on every idevice we have. Then put the his or hers on second. Then I can turn on or off whatever things we want to share or not share. Works great for us.

This sounds like it could work for us. Not sure what is meant by "thesis iCloud" though. Just got the iPhones and am in the beginning stage of learning how to use them. Thanks.