Which, as an Apple employee, is bollocks. I did a quick straw-poll of people I know at Apple - everyone had both work and personal appleids. I asked because I saw the reporting about how “Apple dont let you have separate ids”, and I have had separate ids for the best part of two decades.

Perhaps it’s a new policy, thought I, but that turned out not to be the case either. Both old and new employees routinely kept life at home separate from life at work, because presumably they see the benefits of that.

I’ve got a personal phone, and I’ve got 5 or 6 work phones/I-devices. I’ve got a personal apple-ID which still uses @mac.com, and I’ve got several @icloud.com accounts I use for testing.

You know, If my job tried to actively discourage me from having a two separate phones while retaining the right to search a work phone. I would take that as a warning to absolutely keep two devices and not let them touch my personal device.

Work managed workstations can log every process and command you run on them.

All work IM and emails you send are recorded.

Every URL you visit from your work machine is logged using NTLM auth discovered user name.

Think about all that information and what your employer could take out of context.

Keep your work and personal life separate regardless of the company.

exactly. work is for work devices. personal is personal devices and try to keep the contact between them as small as possible

It would be an encouragement to find another employer.

Wait what? Really? Why?

no that's not true. someone who said they were working for apple contradicted that fact in the other thread.

i personally find the claims weird and have never seen it anywhere. my experience is that some employees choose to use company devices as personal devices. or personal accounts as company accounts, etc.

again, the way things are today, i don't expect many apple employees to come forward and tell us the way things are.