[davisp]

Who are these companies that either require a non-personal Apple Id or forbid a personal Apple Id? I’ve worked for startups and multinationals and never had an issue with my work machine allowing a personal Apple Id.

Obviously I have to be personally ok with allowing work possible access to my Apple Id, but for me it’s an acceptable trade off given that they have access to everything I say on Slack, and if we’re being honest, that’s the where the “HR needs a word” is gonna come from.

[piperswe]

My employer requires you to use a work Apple ID if you use an Apple ID (optional for just MacBook, required if you have a work iPhone). I think it's perfectly reasonable - I don't want my personal Apple ID intermingled with my work computer.

[macNchz]

> Obviously I have to be personally ok with allowing work possible access to my Apple Id, but for me it’s an acceptable trade off given that they have access to everything I say on Slack, and if we’re being honest, that’s the where the “HR needs a word” is gonna come from.

Strange sentiment to me...I can modulate what I communicate in company channels, but in absolutely no way would I ever consider it acceptable that a random person from my employer could access a huge amount of my personal information... iCloud contents might include phone backups, messages, emails, passwords, personal photo library, web history, bookmarks, notes, etc, synced in from all of your other personal devices.

I've learned firsthand the hard way that a small percentage of people are deeply unethical and completely untrustworthy. I can't optimize my entire life around avoiding them, but I certainly can make sure that if they happen to be an {IT employee, HR employee, higher-up} in my company, they won't have access to my personal things.

[theshrike79]

Same here.

I log in with my personal Apple ID and get the stuff from App Store I bought on my company machine too.

All companies have used MDM to disable iCloud Drive though, which was a pain with a few apps that used it to sync stuff between computers, but perfectly reasonable. It's so transparent that it'd be too easy to accidentally get corporate stuff on my own Cloud Drive.

I moved that stuff to sync via a Dropbox account I don't use for anything else and everything has been fine for years.

[Dalewyn]

Never ever ever mix personal and professional anything, for that way lies hell and tragedy.

[jtc331]

The truth is, as usual, probably somewhere in the middle.

[SoftTalker]

Most of the time it's fine. But it can become a very major problem, and the risk is easily avoided. If you need some equipment for work, work should pay for it. If you can BYOD and want to do that, don't use it for anything else.

[DaiPlusPlus]

> Who are these companies that either require a non-personal Apple Id or forbid a personal Apple Id?

They exist, but they're mostly the companies that are the kind you'd never see on HN: relatively high-employee-turnover medium-sized businesses entirely uninvolved in technology - that aren't large enough to have an adequately funded IT dept - or where their IT is outsourced to a nepotistic MSP.

...the kind where IT policies are set by the same-kinds-of-people that banks hire that tell them to actively try to stop users pasting passwords into their online-banking logon screens.

[jtc331]

I don’t understand the downvotes to this comment. Obviously you can disagree, but it’s the obvious question in response to lots of commenters implying this isn’t possible.