How do I stop my sons iPhone from getting text messages?

As a stop-gap measure, you can turn Text Message Forwarding OFF on your iPhone in Settings > Messages. Set up a different Apple ID for him, then set up Family Sharing to give him access to your purchases. As a stop-gap measure, you can turn Text Message Forwarding OFF on your iPhone in Settings > Messages.

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How do I stop my sons iPhone from getting my texts?

How do cancel or delete the 2nd iphone sharing my Apple ID? It's a child account? On the 2nd phone go to Settings, tap on your name, then scroll down and tap sign out. Or, on your phone, go to Settings, tap on your name, then tap on the other phone listed at the bottom and delete it from the account.

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Why is my son getting my text messages on iPhone?

If someone in your family is getting text messages meant for you, or vice-versa, it's probably because those devices are sharing the same Apple ID. This typically happens because, at some point, you all wanted to share content you bought from the iTunes store, including apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, and more.

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How do I block text messages on my kids iPhone?

Go to Settings > Messages, scroll down to Message Filtering, then turn on Filter Unknown Senders. When this setting is on, you can only see messages from people who aren't in your contacts when you go to Filters > Unknown Senders.

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Can you put parental controls on iPhone text messages?

Turn on communication safety in Screen Time settings

(If you haven't already turned on Screen Time, use parental controls to turn it on.) Tap the name of a child in your family group. Then tap Communication Safety, and tap Continue.

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How do I stop text messages from going to multiple devices?

Setting->Messages->Text Message Forwarding, and turn off devices you don't want. This will prevent all SMS texts from going onto other devices. For iMessages (between Apple devices), you will need to sign out of iMessage on each device you do not want to have receiving messages.

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How do I turn off text messages on other Apple devices?

On your iPhone: Tap Settings app > Tap Messages > Tap Text Message Forwarding > It will list the device that can receive text messages from the iPhone, please uncheck your iPad that you do not want messages to go to.

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What happens if I turn off SMS on iPhone?

When you disable SMS, the iMessage system automatically takes over, and sends and receives messages using your cellular or Wi-Fi data connection. To ensure you don't receive any text messages through SMS, you can also disable your cellular data connection to force your iPhone to use an available Wi-Fi network.

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How can I monitor my child's iPhone text messages without them knowing?

How Can I Read My Child's Text Message without Them Knowing? You can read your child's text messages without them knowing when you sync their text to the cloud, log in to their carrier account, or through an app. However, the parental control app seems to be the best option out of the three.

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Can someone see my text messages from another iPhone?

If you backup or synchronize your phone to iCloud then anybody who has the details for that account, or even has their phone connected to the same account (a family member, for example), could potentially see your personal text messages.

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Can my parents see my texts with family sharing?

If you are using iCloud, and share an Apple ID with your parents, yes, they may be able to see your emails and text messages as iCloud syncs across the devices that are signed in with the same ID and passwords.

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How can I monitor everything on my child's iPhone?

Go to Settings > [your name] > Family Sharing > Screen Time. Tap the child you want to set up Screen Time for. Tap Screen Time, then follow the onscreen instructions. For information about Screen Time settings, see Set up Screen Time for a family member on iPhone.

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How is my wife reading my texts iPhone?

That's because the texts are being sent to an ID that is listed as an iMessage receive ID on both devices. See Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > You can be reached by iMessage at: Correct this so each device has a unique ID.

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What happens if I use the same Apple ID on two devices?

Similar questions. If you own the two phones there is little harm in having them both linked to your AppleID. The short version is that the two phones can sync data such as messages, apps, photos, etc. to make it easy to switch between phones.

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How do you Unsync text messages?

To disable this feature:
  1. On the phone, open the Email application.
  2. Tap Settings, then tap Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync in the Accounts group.
  3. Next, tap Settings under Common settings group, then tap your email address.
  4. Scroll down and under the Server settings group, uncheck Sync SMS.

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What happens if I turn my iMessage off?

Why should you turn off iMessage? If you switch from iPhone to Android, you must turn off iMessage. Otherwise, texts from your iPhone friends won't be delivered to your new phone since your number is still registered on iMessage. You will have to create a new group chat with your iPhone friends on your Android phone.

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Can I limit who my child can text on iPhone?

If you haven't already turned on Screen Time, tap Turn On Screen Time, tap Continue, then tap This is My Child's iPhone. Tap Communication Limits, then do any of the following: Limit communication at any time: Tap During Screen Time, then select Contacts Only, Contacts & Groups with at Least One Contact, or Everyone.

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Can I lock my child's iPhone remotely?

There is also a second way to lock your child's iPhone, albeit not an orthodox one: You can use iPhone's Lost Mode to remotely lock the device, provided you have already enabled iCloud and Find My iPhone. You'll need your child's Apple ID password as well.

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What is message filtering on iPhone?

SMS filters provide a way for you to detect and filter unknown SMS and MMS messages. You can install and use third-party SMS filters. If you do, the filter provider can access all of the text and content included in incoming SMS and MMS messages that you receive from unknown senders.

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How can I monitor my child's text messages?

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Can parents put parental controls on an iPhone?

With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you can block or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

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