Imessage and Itunes account question.
I have an iphone 5s with my own separate Imessage account but my kids all share my itunes account. I notice that when I'm going to send a text it will attempt to autocomplete and shows me all my kids contacts on their phones. Why is this if my imessage is different than my itunes account. Does it sync it via the imessage or the itunes account or both? Apple needs to reconsider all this since it isn't great when you have different individuals using the same account to listen to music. I know that this would be great if I had different devices that only I used since it would allow me to see my contacts across all devices but this is not that situation.
So my question is: Is this normal if you have the same itunes account and different imessage account for multiple phones?
Does it sync using the itunes account or the imessage account or both?
Do I need to have separate itunes accounts to stop this from happening? (if this is true then its definitely a money making situation)
Huh? You're just not settings things up properly:
That's because y'all are using the Apple ID for iCloud/iMessage & FaceTime.
While you can continue to use your ID for iTunes content, for everything else everyone needs their own ID
The Apple ID needs to be a verified email address. Once you have an email address, that can be verified, go here & create the IDs:
https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/wa/createAppleId
Then on each phone, turn off Contacts, Calendars, etc. for iCloud. You'll be prompted to keep the data or delete it from the phone, then turn off iMessage, FaceTime & delete the iCloud account...Settings>iCloud...scroll down...delete account. Then, setup iCloud using the new Apple IDs, turn on iMessage & Facetime.
This will have no affect on the ID y'all share for iTunes content, & you can continue to do so.
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