Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by handrous on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:34PM (#27624086)

It's a great system. The only real pain I've run into with it, on macOS anyway, is that you can't isolate iCloud accounts and still receive texts on your Mac. So unless you have a separate phone for each client, that's not so great. Also, the lack of profiles on iDevices means any client-specific apps (2fa stuff, for instance, or if you like to have Slack on your iDevice, or dev/testing apps, or whatever) ends up in a shared space on there.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by Buttons840 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:13PM (#27625139)

I created a new iCloud account with my work email.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by handrous on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:32AM (#27627754)

Right, the trouble's getting text messages and such through to your laptop (text message 2fa is so nice with a synced phone—auto fill!), if you have multiple clients. One work phone + personal phone (or tablets, or whatever) is fine. It's when you have three clients, and maybe they rotate out sometimes, that it gets to be a little annoying.

... unless you can add multiple iCloud accounts to one phone. I guess I've never tried, because I just assumed you couldn't. Though you'd still have the problem of things like dev builds and all that existing in the same space, and email accounts (on the phone) syncing to the same application without much separation, and all that.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:15AM (#27640940)

Why are you using SMS 2FA anyway?

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