I need some advice from the Apple savvy setting up a phone for my grandma. We have a phased out iP5 that we will be wiping and giving to her to replace her ancient flip phone.
I am good with deactivating accounts and wiping the old phone, what I am most curious about is if I should set her up under my Apple account or create her own. She is technologically challenged, so either way I will be managing it.
I have an apple account but currently do not use an Iphone. I may in the future (come on 6S!) but currently do not. My concern with putting her on my account is that my wife and I used to share an account in the iOS5-6 (ish) days and when updates happened our iMessage would always get borked and we would have to tweak the settings to get it back. Given the location of the device this wont be possible. Not sure how iOS8 handles multiple people sharing an account.
Other option is to create her an account and add her to the family via iOS8 and manage her account remotely with a new email address created for her account.
Main goal is for her to have a phone and be able to facetime us. Texting/apps/web browsing will probably be by accident only. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but not betting the farm on that one.
Also interested if there is a better/3rd option I need to know about. I am sure I am over complicating this...
TIA.
I am good with deactivating accounts and wiping the old phone, what I am most curious about is if I should set her up under my Apple account or create her own. She is technologically challenged, so either way I will be managing it.
I have an apple account but currently do not use an Iphone. I may in the future (come on 6S!) but currently do not. My concern with putting her on my account is that my wife and I used to share an account in the iOS5-6 (ish) days and when updates happened our iMessage would always get borked and we would have to tweak the settings to get it back. Given the location of the device this wont be possible. Not sure how iOS8 handles multiple people sharing an account.
Other option is to create her an account and add her to the family via iOS8 and manage her account remotely with a new email address created for her account.
Main goal is for her to have a phone and be able to facetime us. Texting/apps/web browsing will probably be by accident only. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but not betting the farm on that one.
Also interested if there is a better/3rd option I need to know about. I am sure I am over complicating this...
TIA.