Apple ID and ICloud question with Company iPhone

[Noisette55]

Hello ! I have a question regarding Apple ID. I have a company phone that is not under management, when we leave the company we can leave with the phone. When I created my Apple ID, I have used my work email and not my private one. But I use my phone like a personal phone basically. That being said, I was wondering whether my employer can see the pictures of my ICloud ? Are the pics going to my company server because I use my work email as the ID or is it going to Apple server and nothing to do with my employer server ?
thank you !

 

[Longkeg]

The pictures are going to iCloud. The question is do you have complete control of the iCloud account you're using? Did your company set up the account for you? Can they log in to the account? If you don't have sole control over the account I would suggest you get your photos out of there. Create tour own iCloud account and move your photos to it. You can still use your company email in the mail app.

 

[Noisette55]

Hi ! Thank you !
I have 100% control of my Apple ID and iCloud. My company didn’t set up the Apple ID or I cloud for me. My question because I don’t know anything about IT was more, as I am using the company email, are all my pics that are on the cloud going to my company sevrer. I know that our company emails are, so I was wondering whether it was the same for the apps I am using with a log in with my work email

 

[cynics]

Your company email is just your AppleID username in this case. Its unlikely your work even knows that unless they use it for FaceTiming you and such and/or they are monitor your email and saw emails from Apple. They certainly don't have your AppleID password so its a moot point. They can't access anything aside from your actually email, which is a work email anyway.

I would change your AppleID email. There might be a day you can't access that email which would add some complexity to change it then.

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[TriBruin]

As others have mentioned, your company should not be able to access your iCloud account. In theory they could do a password reset and then intercept the reset email (since they DO have the ability to monitor your email account.) But, if you have 2FA, they would still need access to you phone or other authorized devices.

One other minor consideration. If your company ever decided to federate their domain with Apple, you will be forced to change your AppleID to another email address. (But, the fact that your company doesn't even enforce management on your device, the chances of them federating their domain is low.)

 

[Phil77354]

I would change your AppleID email. There might be a day you can't access that email which would add some complexity to change it then.

Completely agree. Don't use work e-mail for any personal accounts. You never know when things might change.