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My iPhone is running latest iOS 13.6 and I never used beta iOS. When I go to Settings, Messages, Text Message Forwarding, it shows 3 Macs. I own and always owned 1 Mac computer. Its the only Mac computer I have ever owned.

Two weeks ago, 2nd Mac showed up in the settings. Two days ago, I formatted my MBA hard drive and reinstalled Catalina 10.15.6 from scratch and 3rd Mac showed up in the settings.

When I log in to my iCloud account (www.icloud.com), I go to settings and it shows 1 MBA. My iPhone, also shows 1 MBA (Mac) when I go to Settings, Apple ID and on the bottom it shows 1 MBA

Anyone know how to remove incorrect entries?

Ive attached images for reference.

Thanks in advance.
 

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If you don’t sign out of iCloud on all your (i) devices before installing or reinstalling MacOS, it will duplicate your device. If you want to get rid of the 2 duplicates, you will need to change your Apple ID password.

Ohh, well that's a lot simpler than I would have guessed.

Thanks.
 
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