How do I take cell phone numbers off of my iCloud account.

Question

I have all of my devices under the same accounts, both itunes and icloud.  I originally used the smae itunes account on all my family member devices so that we could share all of our purchases.  And the same cloud account so that we can share calanders and photostream(which has been very useful). But now Im finding out that I can select my wifes or daughters phone number and receive their imessages on my phone, or my ipad, air etc...  I dont want to be tempted to read their messages and I certainly dont want them reading mine.  Is there any way to manage my icloud addresses and pull our cellular numbers off the list so that no one can read each others messages.  Ive been reading many similar posts on this forum but am surprised to find that no one else has the same problem.

Answer 1

iMessage is separate from your iCloud account and does not use or even require an iCloud account.  To avoid getting each others text messages, just have everyone use a different Apple ID for iMessage (it doesn't need to be the same as thier iCloud ID).  Have your other family members go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive on their devices, tap the ID, sign out, then sign in with separate IDs to keep everyone's text messages separated.  To avoid getting each other's FaceTime calls, have them do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.