Tip: if you have a company iPhone, I recommend that you associate it with your personal phone for 2FA before separation. You may need to get access to the account after your company phone number and email are disabled. I had some personal AirTags associated with it and it was a helluva job to regain control of them
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Thanks this is actually great advice.
My personal phone is android so I do have airtags attached to my work iphone.
How do you associate it with your personal phone for 2fa though? Wanders off to google but any advice welcomed from non IT person!!
Thinking that I will need to disconnect them from my work account and then reconnect them from a new account?
If for any reason at all you are using your company email as your Apple ID, switch that to a personal email ASAP, like yesterday, to retain photos, iMessages, Contacts, etc in the cloud. Then you can sign into a new device and retain that history. That belongs to you, not the company. After I resigned, my next employer’s IT explained that they could care less about the Apple ID and cloud because they control what they control…like try to copy/paste or screenshot from Outlook. Point being, if you leave Chevron with a Chevron email Apple ID, good luck trying to use that email after your last day should you need it for any verification. YMMV.
@d0 “Old SLACKER” says it all. Too cheap to have your own phone (number) for friends and family. Always su-king on the corporate teet.
To CV1. Actually with that kind of attitude I wouldn’t want to be your friend let alone an acquaintance. And I wanted to keep that number because it’s the one my family used to contact me and still do. Also I have many friends from my days at Chevron I still play golf with and socialize. But then again I had 36 years with the company to build those relationships. How many years do you have and does anyone even bother to try and be your friend? You must be one lonely mother trucker.
Why do people keep their company iPhones and phone numbers so those that kept their jobs can pester you? You really think your old “friends” are going to call you just to chat and see how you are doing?
I disagree with you. My Team Lead let me keep my phone as it was older and not worth turning in. I actually stayed on the Chevron plan for a few years after retiring but of course I was paying the bill myself instead of the Company. And I still have my number I had at Chevron even to this day. I’m now on Xfinity with that same number I had for years at Chevron and of course a new phone. But I still have that old phone along with my other old IPhones I keep in my dresser as part of my memories of all the years I worked at CVX. I was on the Security Team at the time I retired in 2017. I also have an old GIL Laptop I kept as well. It’s sitting out in my garage on a shelf. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Even better, don’t use the company phone for anything personal in the first place