On 18/01/2022 11:58, Chris wrote:

My phone and Mac use different AppleIDs so how is it possible that
facetime calls to my personal iphone appear on my work Mac? More
importantly how can I stop it happening?

I've never connected them via sidecar nor icloud nor imessage. The only communication they've had with each other is when I've hotspotted the
phone's mobile data.

Where is the work Mac - at work on the work network or at home on the
home network?

I assume the latter and that they are locating each other by virtue of
being on the same LAN at same time.

Not sure how you could stop it other than disabling Bluetooth as someone suggested but then you'd lose headphones etc as well.

If it's any consolation I think it's the phone making use of the Mac to
display facetime calls on a larger screen - not that the Mac is
permanently associated with your AppleID. The way to check that would be
to switch off the phone (or go into airplane mode), restart the Mac
(just in case), get someone to make a Facetime call to you and see if it
still arrives on the Mac.

--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, England

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On 18/01/2022 15:03, Theo wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

My phone and Mac use different AppleIDs so how is it possible that
facetime calls to my personal iphone appear on my work Mac? More
importantly how can I stop it happening?

Turn off bluetooth for one or the other? BT is how the first handshake for things like AirDrop work - could be worth a try to see if that's how they find each other?

I'd rather not. I like to use my phone with a BT speaker or earbuds.

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On 18/01/2022 23:25, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

On 18/01/2022 11:58, Chris wrote:

My phone and Mac use different AppleIDs so how is it possible that
facetime calls to my personal iphone appear on my work Mac? More
importantly how can I stop it happening?

I've never connected them via sidecar nor icloud nor imessage. The
only communication they've had with each other is when I've hotspotted
the phone's mobile data.

Where is the work Mac - at work on the work network or at home on the
home network?

I assume the latter and that they are locating each other by virtue of
being on the same LAN at same time.

Yes, at home both on wifi.

Not sure how you could stop it other than disabling Bluetooth as someone suggested but then you'd lose headphones etc as well.

Indeed. Plus my BT mouse.

If it's any consolation I think it's the phone making use of the Mac to display facetime calls on a larger screen - not that the Mac is
permanently associated with your AppleID.

That's more acceptable, I guess, but still a bit creepy.

The way to check that would be
to switch off the phone (or go into airplane mode), restart the Mac
(just in case), get someone to make a Facetime call to you and see if it still arrives on the Mac.

I'll try that.

Thanks!

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