iMessage and FaceTime are end-to-end encrypted. The phone number or email address you use is shown to the people you contact, and you can choose to share your name and photo.
Apple retains limited information about the use of iMessage and FaceTime, such as when you attempted a FaceTime call and whether your device is eligible to use iMessage, for up to 30 days.
Messages are backed up in iCloud and encrypted if you enable iCloud Backup or Messages in iCloud.

iMessage is an Apple service that sends messages over Wi-Fi or cellular connections to other iOS devices (with iOS 5 or later), iPadOS devices, Macs (with OS X 10.8 or later), and Apple Watches. These messages don’t count against your messaging plan. Messages sent via iMessage can include photos, videos, and other information.

FaceTime is an Apple service that makes video or audio calls to someone who’s also using an iOS or iPadOS device or a Mac, or audio calls using an Apple Watch. These calls don’t count against your cellular minutes.

Tips & Tricks If you want to remove individual calls from your call history, then you can. Open the FaceTime app and select either Video or Audio at the top. Swipe across a call entry from right to left to reveal a Delete button, tap this and the call will be removed. Find the inactive sessions. To do this, paste the following statement in the New Query window, and then run the statement against the DEXSESSION table. SELECT. from TempDB.DEXSESSION where SessionID not in (SELECT SQLSESID from DYNAMICS.ACTIVITY) Delete the inactive sessions in the DEXSESSION table.

We designed iMessage and FaceTime to use end-to-end encryption, so there’s no way for Apple to decrypt the content of your conversations when they are in transit between devices. Attachments you send over iMessage (such as photos or videos) are encrypted so that no one but the sender and receiver(s) can access them. These encrypted attachments may be uploaded to Apple. To improve performance, your device may automatically upload attachments to Apple while you are composing an iMessage. If your message isn’t sent, the attachments are deleted from the server after 30 days. When a passcode or password is set on your iOS, iPadOS, or watchOS device, stored messages are encrypted on your device so that they can’t be accessed unless the device has been unlocked.

You can choose to automatically delete your iMessages from your device after 30 days or a year, or to keep them on your device forever. For your convenience, iMessages are backed up in iCloud and encrypted if you have either iCloud Backup or Messages in iCloud enabled. You can turn off both iCloud Backup and Messages in iCloud whenever you want. On iOS or iPadOS, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud. On Mac, go to Messages > Preferences, tap iMessage, and deselect the “Enable Messages in iCloud” checkbox. We never store the content of FaceTime calls.

You can sign in to iMessage and FaceTime using your Apple ID, or just your phone number. If you sign in with your Apple ID on your device, you will be signed in to iMessage and FaceTime automatically. Your Apple ID or phone numbers will be shown to the people you contact, and people can reach you using your Apple ID and email addresses or phone numbers on your account. You can select which phone numbers or email addresses you’d like to start new conversations from, and which phone numbers or email addresses you can receive messages and reply from, in iMessage and FaceTime settings. You can add and verify additional “Reachable At” information from your Apple ID account page.

Share Name and Photo allows you to share a name and photo with people you iMessage. You can choose to automatically share with just your contacts, or to be prompted each time. Your shared name and photo will be sent with your next iMessage to the people you share with, and stored on their devices. If you share your name and photo with an iMessage conversation with multiple people, your name and photo will be sent to all the people in the conversation. You can update your name and photo at any time. If you automatically share, updates will be sent when you next send an iMessage to each person you share with. If you have shared your name and photo and later turn off sharing, others who previously received your name and photo may still have your information on their devices. The name and photo you select for messages will be sent to Apple, and stored on Apple’s servers encrypted in a way that Apple cannot see.

Apple may record and store some information related to your use of iMessage and FaceTime to operate and improve Apple’s products and services:

• When you use iMessage and FaceTime, Apple may store information about your use of the services in a way that doesn’t identify you.

• iMessages that can’t be delivered may be held by Apple for up to 30 days for redelivery.

• Apple may record and store information about FaceTime calls, such as who was invited to a call, and your device’s network configurations, and store this information for up to 30 days. Apple doesn’t log whether your call was answered, and can’t access the content of your calls.

• Some apps on your device (including Messages and FaceTime) may communicate with Apple’s servers to determine if other people can be reached by iMessage or FaceTime. When this happens, Apple may store these phone numbers and email addresses associated with your account, for up to 30 days.

By using these features, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information as described above.

At all times, information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be found at www.apple.com/privacy.

Users of Apple devices, such as iPhone or iPad, have at their service a wide variety of applications that allow them to get the most out of their devices. Sometimes some of them require that we have linked our phone number. But what happens if our beloved smartphone or tablet is lost or stolen? Or if we change our phone number? In these cases, we may want to unlink our phone number from the Apple account and prevent third parties from accessing it.

Being an iPhone or iPad user has many advantages and if you are reading this blog, you probably already know them. Much of these advantages are directly related to linking our phone number to our Apple account, such as:

Use our phone number as a username to identify ourselves after entering a password.

Some applications, such as iMessages, allow you to exchange text messages, photos, and videos with another Apple device.

Others, like FaceTime, allowing you to make calls and video calls.

However, what happens if we have lost our mobile device or if we want to change the main phone number of our Apple account? To solve these problems and prevent future ones, we may be interested in unlinking or changing the phone number of our account at any given time.

How To Delete A Phone Number

Next, we are going to see how to delete a phone number from our Apple ID from iCloud (Apple’s cloud storage system). For it,

We select our name or Apple ID email address.
Then we log in, if necessary, and click the name, phone numbers, mail. On the new screen, we can access our data, such as the phone number we want to delete.
If we click on Edit and select the number, we can delete it by clicking on the red icon (-) and then on Delete.

There is another way to remove a phone number from our account. To do this, we must close the session of the iMessage and FaceTime services of the device whose number we want to stop being used:

We open Settings on our device.
We will click on Messages> Send and Receive and select the address linked to our Apple ID.
Then we click on Logout.
Finally, we go back to the Settings tab and repeat the same steps in FaceTime.
In this way, calls and messages will stop reaching the devices that have logged into the account. In the event that we want to delete a phone number from a device that we do not have access to, then we need to change the Apple ID password. This will delete all phone numbers associated with any device, and calls and messages from these numbers will no longer appear.

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