My brother in laws daughter is intercepting all his iMessages on her iPhone. Someone sends him an iMessage and instead of going to his phone, it goes to hers???? This started right after she updated his phone and used her info and wifi. Plain texts still go to him
IMessage sent to one phone is going to another phone instead
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iMessage isn't designed to work with just one Apple ID. Instead of having all the iPhones and iPad on one Apple ID, it will be necessary to set up additional Apple IDs for the different users.
When you setup an iOS device and put in your Apple ID, it provisions ALL such services to that Apple ID. Go into Settings on each device (under Messages and FaceTime) and remove the Apple ID. Replace the Apple ID with a new Apple ID unique to each user. Here is a guide on creating new iCloud accounts for this purpose.
Better yet, provision each account completely with its own Apple ID. If a person wants to download an already-purchased app or song from a different account, you can temporarily change accounts in iTunes or App Store.
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Best Answer
Do they, somehow, use the same Apple ID? If so, the phone number has paired to the Apple ID, and every iMessage will notify the most active device (that is, the daughter in this case) before pinging the others.
As some would say, it's not a bug. It's a feature. I have a few solutions for your brother in law:
If the Apple ID belongs to the daughter
You said:
If the father has the daughter's Apple ID logged in on his iPhone, just go to
Settings :: Messages :: Receive aton the father's iPhone and log in with the right Apple ID.If the Apple ID is the father's one
If both the daughter and the father are logged in to the father's Apple ID, you have the following options:
Get the daughter a personal iCloud account
As the daughter already has an iPhone, I suggest your brother in law creates an account for her. If they use a version older than iOS 8, they can go to
Settings :: Messagesand create an Apple ID from there that will just be used for iMessage and FaceTime. She will still be able to download apps from your brother in law account. Otherwise, if they use iOS 8, they can create a new child account that will be used for all services, including the App Store, but use the same credit card (the daughter will have to send requests to buy)Disable the feature
If they have to keep the same iTunes account, you can go to
Settings :: Messages :: Receive aton the daughter's iPhone, and uncheck your brother-in-law phone number. This way, she won't receive his iMessages anymore.