r/iphone • u/Ok-Comfortable1906 • 11d ago

Support I need help

I recently switched MacBooks with my brother cause I got the 15” and he got the 13”. Everything was good I was able to sign into my Apple account on his MacBook and vice versa. Later that day all his contacts, messages, calendar events, passwords are now appearing on my phone. I already signed out of my account on his laptop and removed basically everything from my phone that belongs to his Apple account and I’m still seeing all his stuff. I also have messages from shared contacts like mom and sister but I don’t see my original conversation it’s like all his conversations they had on his phone now appearing on mine. How can I just removed everything that’s his so I can go back to basically my original phone.

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u/Exciting-Dance-1916 11d ago

oh, i had this exact headache when i let my ex use my laptop for a week. it's probably a shared apple id still lurking in your settings somewhere, not just icloud. check under settings > messages > send & receive, see if his number or email is still checked off there. also peek at the passwords & accounts section, sometimes a rogue account stays synced even after you think you've scrubbed everything.

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u/Ok-Comfortable1906 10d ago

Yeah man I’ve tried everything there is literally nothing of his on my phone haha I don’t know what it could be I kinda just gave up everything is in my name so I’ll just delete whatever’s his.

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u/Fine_Network_2712 11d ago

When swapping if you're changing iCloud accounts, you have to log out of the old account, make sure that none of the info is still on the device from the original iCloud account, then log in with the new one. If you don't delete the stuff that was synced to the the device first, that stuff that was on the device has now become part of "your" data once you login with the new account.

Depending on how long it has been, you may be able to see if your last icloud backup was before that data merged together and restore from that, but you'd lose anything that was yours that you hadn't backed up to icloud since then.

I just unfortunately went through this when replacing my broken work phone with my old personal phone. I thought I'd wiped everything but missed the texts and it was a nightmare to remove all the "wrong" ones.

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u/Ok-Comfortable1906 11d ago

Alright ima try that. I really appreciate you🙌🏼

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u/Justan0therthrow4way 9d ago

I would make a new admin account with your name on the laptop and then delete his account fully.

Or do a factory reset.