Unable to sign out of iCloud account due to Family Sharing restrictions

**Please help ASAP** I recently signed out of my apple id/icloud on my phone so I could log in to my daughter's old icloud account and transfer her old pictures. I did not do the option that deleted my data, so now I can see my normal apps/msgs/contacts/etc, with some of hers mixed in. Her account was attached to her dad's icloud family share and he has a passcode set up for restrictions and now I cannot log out and back into mine. We are not on good speaking terms, so he will not agree to log out. If he gets on her old phone that is still logged in to her old icloud acct, will he be able to see my stuff now too???

Posted on Oct 30, 2026 12:59 PM

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Phil0124

Level 10 (242,520 points)

Nov 2, 2026 7:24 AM in response to tkdanimal5

Short answer: Yes. He will be able to see anything that was on your iPhone and set to sync to iCloud.

Long answer: This was really a bad idea. You won't be able to resolve it without her dad's help now. He will need to remove the Screen Time restrictions before you can do anything else. If she was storing pictures in iCloud, the thing you should have done was to log in to her account on the iCloud.com website instead of directly on your iPhone. That was, sorry to say, a pretty dumb thing to do.

It bears saying, you should never, for any reason log in to someone else's iCloud account on you device.