You would like to avoid having photos taken with your own iPhone are automatically saved to iPad but you don’t know how to prevent it? You tried to disable the synchronization of messages, notes, contacts and other data between iPhone and iPad but haven’t found the right option to do it? If the answer to at least one of these questions is yes, don’t worry: you’ve come to the right place at the right time!
With today’s guide, in fact, I’ll show you how to get out of sync between iPhone and iPad providing you with all the information you need to succeed in your intent. In addition to the walkthrough for disabling the syncing of photos, messages, calendars, and Safari-related data, you’ll also find instructions for preventing apps downloaded on one device from automatically downloading on the other.
If that’s what you wanted to know, let’s not go any further and see how to proceed. All you have to do is set aside five minutes of free time to devote to reading the next paragraphs and carefully follow the directions I am about to give you. By doing so, I assure you that you will be able to delete the synchronization between iPhone and iPad without experiencing any kind of problem. Enjoy the reading!
Index
- Preliminary information
- How to un-sync Photos between iPhone and iPad
- How to remove Safari sync between iPhone and iPad
- How to un-sync Messages between iPhone and iPad
- How to remove Calendar sync between iPhone and iPad
- How to remove app sync between iPhone and iPad
- How to delete sync between iPhone and iPad
Preliminary information
Before we get to the heart of this tutorial and explain yourself how to get out of sync between iPhone and iPad, let me give you some preliminary information in this regard.
First, you need to know that synchronization between two or more devices associated with the same Apple ID takes place via iCloud, the Apple service that allows you to securely store your photos, files, notes, passwords and many other app and operating system data in the cloud, automatically synchronizing them on all devices on which the service in question is active.
This means that to disable synchronization between iPhone and iPad, simply disable iCloud – for individual data or completely – on one or both devices. Keep in mind, however, that by doing so you will not only lose synchronization between iPhone and iPad but also that between iPhone / iPad and all other devices associated with your Apple ID.
To understand better, let’s take a practical example. If you have decided to activate iCloud on iPhone, have enabled synchronization of your photos and it is also active on iPad and Mac, the photos you take from iPhone will also be automatically available on iPad and Mac (and vice versa). If, however, you decide to stop the synchronization between iPhone and iPad, by deactivating iCloud on your “iPhone by” the photos will no longer be synchronized on iPad but not even on Mac.
Therefore, if, in addition to your iPhone and iPad, you have other devices associated with your Apple ID, before deactivating iCloud, evaluate well on which Apple devices you actually want to disable this feature and on which to keep it active. Regardless of your choice, keep in mind that you can re-enable syncing at any time. Having clarified this, let’s see how to proceed.
How to un-sync Photos between iPhone and iPad
For remove Photo sync between iPhone and iPad, take your “iPhone by”, press the icon of gear wheel to access the Settings of iOS and tap on yours photo displayed above.
On the screen Apple ID, tap on the item iCloud, select the option Photo and move the lever next to the item ICloud Photos from ON to OFF, so as to stop syncing photos between iPhone and iPad.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to proceed from iPad in order to leave the synchronization of photos between iPhone and other devices associated with your Apple ID active, also in this case you have to do is access the Settings iPadOS, press on yours photoat the top left, select options iCloud And Photo and move the lever next to the item ICloud Photos from ON to OFF. To learn more, you can check out my guide on how iCloud Photos works.
How to remove Safari sync between iPhone and iPad
If your intention is remove Safari sync between iPhone and iPad, even in this case you just need to access the settings of your device and disable the synchronization of data related to Safari via iCloud.
Before explaining how to do it, however, keep in mind that by leaving the synchronization active you can not only keep the same bookmarks and synchronize the Safari history on both devices, but you can also take advantage of the function ICloud panels, which allows you to see the panels open in Safari on a specific device and thus continue browsing from another device, picking up right where you left off.
That said, if you still intend to turn off syncing, grab your iPhone and log into Settings of iOS by pressing on the icon gear wheel. Now, tap yours photo, select the option iCloud and, in the new screen displayed, move the lever for the item Safari from ON to OFF. If you have previously synchronized iCloud Safari data on iPhone, click on the option of your interest between Keep on iPhone and Delete from iPhone.
As I indicated in the opening lines of this guide, if you have other devices associated with your Apple ID, your iPhone’s Safari data will not automatically sync to any other device. If you want to keep the synchronization between iPhone and other devices (e.g. a Mac) active but not with your iPad, you will have to deactivate it only from the latter.
To proceed, then take your iPad, access the Settings iPadOS, tap yours photo and access the section iCloud. Then locate the item Safari, move its lever from ON to OFF and, if necessary, select the option you prefer from Keep on iPad and Delete from iPad, to keep or not the Safari data previously synchronized by iCloud.
How to un-sync Messages between iPhone and iPad
For un-sync Messages between iPhone and iPad and, consequently, disable the ability to automatically view all the conversations available in the app in question from both devices, simply access the iCloud section of one of the two devices and disable the option relating to messages.
To proceed, then take your iPhone / iPad, press the icon of gear wheel to access the Settings iOS / iPadOS and tap yours photo.
In the new screen that appears, select the option iCloud, locate the item Messages, move its lever from ON to OFF and confirm your intention by clicking on the option Disable and download messages.
How to remove Calendar sync between iPhone and iPad
The synchronization of the app Calendar between iPhone and iPad, it allows you to share your calendars between the two devices. This means that you can add, edit and delete events from a single device and have everything automatically updated on the other device as well.
If you have decided to remove Calendar sync between iPhone and iPad proceeding from your “iPhone by”, access the Settings of iOS by pressing on the icon gear wheel, press on yours photo displayed at the top and tap on the item iCloud.
Once this is done, locate the option Calendars, move its lever from ON to OFF and, if you have previously synced iCloud Calendar data to iPhone, choose whether to keep this data (Keep on iPhone) or whether to delete them (Delete from iPhone).
If, on the other hand, you prefer to proceed from iPad in order to leave the synchronization of calendars between iPhone and other devices associated with your Apple ID active, all you have to do is access the Settings iPadOS, press on yours photo, at the top left, select the option iCloud and move the lever for the item Calendars from ON to OFF. Simple, right?
How to remove app sync between iPhone and iPad
If you are wondering if it is possible remove app sync between iPhone and iPad, that is to avoid that the applications downloaded on the iPhone are automatically installed on the iPad as well (and vice versa), you will be happy to know that the answer is yes.
To proceed, then take your iPhone or iPad, tap on the icon of gear wheel to access the Settings iOS / iPadOS and press on the item App Store. Now, in the section Automatic downloads, move the lever for the option App from ON to OFF And that’s it.
How do you say? With “remove app sync between iPhone and iPad”Do you intend to disable the data synchronization of individual applications? In that case, you can access the section iCloud of your device and choose which apps to disable syncing.
To do this, on both iPhone and iPad, click on the icon gear wheel in order to access the Settings iOS / iPadOS and tap yours photo. Then press on the item iCloud and, in the new screen displayed, locate the app of your interest (eg. Note, Memorandum, Contacts, Health, Home, Whatsapp, Telegram, Google Drive etc.). Then move the relative lever from ON to OFF and, if necessary for the selected app, press on the item Deactivate.
If, on the other hand, you want to prevent the passwords you saved in the Key holder iPhone / iPad, tap on the item Key holder and, in the new screen that appears, move the toggle next to the option ICloud Keychain from ON to OFF.
How to delete sync between iPhone and iPad
For delete sync between iPhone and iPad, i.e. disable this option for all applications that use it, you need to access the iCloud section and manually disable synchronization for all apps. Alternatively, you can log out of your Apple ID: in this case, however, you will not be able to download new apps or use the services that require an Apple account.
In the first case, take your iPhone / iPad, access the Settings iOS / iPadOS by pressing on the icon gear wheel and tap on yours photo. Then press on the item iCloud and, in the new screen displayed, move the lever for all available applications from OFF to ON, in order to completely disable the synchronization between iPhone and iPad.
If, on the other hand, you have decided to log out of your Apple ID, after pressing on yours photo, scroll down the screen, tap on the item Go out, enter the password associated with your account in the appropriate field and click on the option Deactivate. In that regard, my guide on how to sign out of iCloud might be useful.
I remind you once again that by doing so you not only disable the synchronization between the two devices in question but also between iPhone / iPad and other devices associated with your Apple ID. If you have second thoughts, you can retrace your steps at any time: in that case, you can take a look at my guide on how to sync iPad with iPhone.
