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Cisa1904 Author

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iCloud and iMessage accounts are not the same. Do i need to change one of the two to be identical to each other

Do I need to make my iCloud and iMessag iCloud and iMessage accounts the same to share my name and photo,

iPhone XR, iOS 13

Posted on Jan 5, 2020 5:33 PM

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Miss Smartie Partie

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Posted on Jan 6, 2020 1:37 PM

Yes. Since the picture is pulled from iCloud, you must be using the same Apple ID for iCloud and iMessage/FaceTime: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201287

You should use a single Apple ID for all of your services anyway.

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