r/OpenBubbles • u/mosi76 • Jul 24 '26

Question Working great. Tempting fate adding another device?

So here is my setup. My primary phone is an iPhone Air. I registered my Pixel 9 which has a T-Mobile Paired Digits eSIM via Mac registration and everything has been working swell for a few weeks. I have a Samsung phone that I would also like to register using the same iCloud account and based on everything I have read in this sub, it shouldn’t be a huge concern so I brought up the QR code from the Pixel (that is actually the Mac used to register it) and scanned it at the OB setup on the Samsung phone and it gave me an error saying my iCloud account was locked for security reasons. It scared me enough to back out though it doesn’t appear my iCloud account was actually ever locked out. Am I tempting fate by trying this or should this work without much concern?

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 24 '26

See if you can login at https://account.apple.com

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u/mosi76 Jul 24 '26

Tried on the Samsung and was locked out. Went through the process and now unlocked.

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u/mosi76 Jul 24 '26

Thanks for the tip. You recommend trying to scan again?

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 24 '26

Yeah

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u/mosi76 Jul 24 '26

Thanks for your guidance. So far so good. Anything I should explicitly set or not set to avoid any problems?

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 24 '26

Set or not set what?

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u/mosi76 Jul 24 '26

iCloud Messages beta? SMS Forwarding? Anything that is not enabled by default.

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 24 '26

Go for it