[ajeet_dhaliwal]

There’s other things Apple’s doing that are even worse imo. I didn’t realize until yesterday that if you receive a phone call on your iPhone (on the number) that if you’ve used your Apple ID on an iPad (used by family members) it also receives the call and can be answered via FaceTime, I kind of considered that a massive invasion of privacy but after searching around online seems no ones bothered by it. I have now turned that “feature” off. I had already been careful to turn off syncing that takes place all over the place too on these devices. iCloud and the like shouldn’t be turned on by default and I had no idea about the call option, it didn’t occur to me a phone call to my phone number could be received by someone else using a shared iPad. The problem is someone has to sign into these shared devices that family/kids sometimes use in order to download apps. It should really be limited to the store though. Now I’ve tried signing in just for the purpose of purchasing and we’ll see if that works, I think the iCloud/call features are off now.

[forgotmypw17]

Not only that, but if your primary texting device is not Apple, but you use FaceTime even once, FaceTime will eat any text messages sent to you from Apple users, and they won't reach your main texting device. It happened to me, and that's how I know.

I've learned to stay away from Apple ecosystem altogether, because it rarely brings anything good to my life in the long term.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

This is not correct; you are conflating FaceTime and iMessage.

If you insert your SIM in an iPhone or iPad, then yes your number will be registered for iMessage and all iOS users will default to iMessaging you.

You cannot FaceTime to or from your phone number without your SIM being inserted in the device. In the absence of this, you can FaceTime just fine using your Apple ID as the identifier.

[forgotmypw17]

I promise you, this exact thing happened to me.

I had never used my number with an Apple device, I only registered my email and FaceTimed someone.

Maybe I gave Apple my phone number at some point.

One day, I looked at my Apple device after not using it for a while, and discovered a handful of text messages which had been forwarded there -- you're right, to iMessage, not FaceTime -- on the Apple device.

I never received them on my actual number.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Everything I know (and my expertise on this topic is pretty good) indicates that a phone number cannot be registered for iMessage without a SIM carrying that number being inserted into an iPhone or iPad.

Other devices signed into the same iCloud account can then use that number as well.

[nojito]

How is that a privacy issue?

You logged in with your personal Apple ID and stayed logged in.

Just use the family option for getting apps on kids/family members devices.

[ajeet_dhaliwal]

You have to stay logged in for the App Store, or you need to login each time. The point is I only want to be logged in for one purpose (the store), I don’t need all devices I’m logged into be syncing and taking my calls. I understand now this behavior can be changed but I had no idea this was even a feature. My stance is that this should not be the default setting the same as the thread creator doesn’t appreciate books offloading to iCloud by default to be a helpful feature. It’s the default option of these types of things that can inadvertently lead to privacy issues or issues where data you expected to be there when you need it not being there.

[andor]

If your family uses your iPad, you can create a new Apple ID and then use the "Family Sharing" feature to get access to apps bought with your main account.

[Jtsummers]

This is what my wife and I do, and will do for our kids when they're old enough to have a device like that. One purchase, shared by the household. Much simpler than manually logging in or having your credentials used by others.

[gruez]

>You have to stay logged in for the App Store, or you need to login each time.

You can log into app store with a separate account and it will remember it.

[soared]

Very much by design and it’s an excellent feature. I want to be able to text from my iPhone and iPad without having to fiddle with apps and settings and other nonsense. It works right out of the box. Everyone I know is the same way; you are going against the grain here.