How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home? • Hacker News Board

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by beckler » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:14 PM UTC

My wife needed more storage, so we got the family iCloud+ subscription. When it came time for me to set up my work laptop, I made a separate account, but added it to my family. That way I can use my purchased apps and subscriptions on my work machine.

Not a perfect solution, but works pretty well for me.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by iamwpj » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:14 PM UTC

positus wrote: post #9

iamwpj wrote: post #6

I sign into my work Mac with my personal iCloud account. I use most of the Apple features, but don't sync files. My login account is attached to Active Directory, and admins would have to sign in with a standard local account or their own AD account to manage my device. AFAIK there's no way to access the Photos.app contents from the filesystem. I haven't tried that hard, but you can't look in the directory in ~/Photo…

Seems like they would be accessible from: /Users/ /Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/originals If another user is a domain administrator (and depending on your AD configuration) they may be able to access the files in your home directory. Might want to check on that!

That directory is files that are exported from the app or imported from MacOS into Photos.app.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by nonameiguess » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:18 PM UTC

My work Mac provided by my company disables iCloud, which is fine by me, as I never wanted or intended to do things like check text messages or listen to music on my work laptop anyway. I do sometimes listen to music while working, but usually I stream that from my television, as the home theater sound system is far better than what I'd get from a laptop.

Heck, I don't even check Hacker News or sign into the browser from my work machine. Laptops are lightweight. I just keep two nearby so I can work from one and goof off using the other.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by 767664386 » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:22 PM UTC

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Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by derwiki » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:26 PM UTC

alejo wrote: post #3

I separate work from personal life as much as possible. I create a new iCloud account with my work email and use that. I never use my iCloud account in my company’s hardware [0]. If I want to listen to music, I play it from my personal iPhone, which I have with me all the time and has all my personal accounts. 0: This is the same as I would use my work email to create a GitHub account and join my company’s organizati…

Especially with a remote role, there is no good reason to use your work laptop for personal. Just keep your personal at the same desk.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by firecall » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:35 PM UTC

Totally seperate.

I learn never to cross pollinate.

If I want to use my Apple Music subscription, then I’ll use my iPhone.

Your work laptop is not your laptop.

Make seperate account and just abandon then when you switch jobs.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by alkhatib » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

LukeLambert wrote: post #8

With Messages and Music in particular (and perhaps other apps), you can sign into a different Apple ID than the one used for the system-level iCloud account.

Did not know about messages, but I was logging in with personal account to Music.

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

Ask HN:

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by superb_dev » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:07 PM UTC

I use Apple Music’s web app on my work laptop, that’s the only apple service I’ve felt a need for at work

Re: How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?

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Post by aSockPuppeteer » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

Music on phone and messages with focus times or do not disturb. I rarely log into any personal things on my work computer.

I encrypt and email my weekly notes or reports to build my resume or send personal things home from work if necessary.

I tried using apple notes for sync between iOS/macOS/pc and it fails due to slow or no updates. Only work around I found is pin/unpin each note which gets annoying.

My co-worker uses a personal PC laptop and remotes into a work PC so he controls what work sees.