Switching phones between users on the same account

What would be the easiest way to do that? My brother is handing his iphone over to me and he is just going back to his old phone, just to make things clear

Yea i was thinking the online would work best, where would i go for that? I currently don't have a smart phone, so i would be switching to one and he would be switching back to his old non smart phone

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