Sweet Work Phone

My new job out in here in Flagstaff provided me with a sweet iPhone 6 work phone.

My boss and the company in general is cool with me using it as a personal phone, however, I'm not sure how to handle an iCloud account.

Thoughts on this?

I have the same thing. Make sure you understand whatever corporate policy exists. You don't want data you think is personal to become legally discoverable, or otherwise become available to your employer.

General rule of thumb...If it's a work phone, anything on it is usually considered company property. So just think of it as that and be smart. I wouldn't really use ICloud if you can avoid it. (Dunno about how integrated the ICloud is...I'm an Android user)

I would say anything on it belongs to the company, or is at the least accessible by the company. That's how I would look at it if I was supplying the phone.

That's why I give a phone allowance and let them supply their own phones.

I'm kinda with Toyman here. I wouldn't blur the lines too much, if at all, between a work phone and a personal phone.

Heck, I have two personal phones, one for work and one as my main personal phone, simply because work reserves the right to wipe any phone that's hooked up to corporate email under certain circumstances.

I have a BB Z30 supplied by work. I am on-call all the time so my employer allows personal use.

They couldn't care less what I have on it, as long as it's not porn.

I have personal pictures, games, etc.

PHeller wrote: Thoughts on this?

It is their phone. Anything you do, say, store, write, etc on that phone can be used against you as an employee. Use it accordingly.

So, if it were me, I'd still have my own personal phone.

If the company provides a phone I always have my own.

Keep the phone business casual. Pictures of the family and cars are ok, no boobs or party pictures. Install the guitar tuner app, but not tinder. Watch your language in texts. Ya know, Business casual.

A phone is just a piece of hardware...your concern is over content and data. My iPhone 6 has both my personal account and my work account on it. Anything that work buys gets bought through their Apple Account, anything personal gets bought on mine. I use the Cloud to back up both accounts. If they want to fire me and wipe my phone, fine. I can buy another iPhone and setup my personal account and all my stuff will be right back where it was. If they want to spend the time looking through my browsing history, fine, I am not violating company policy so have at it.

^^^^^ What pinchvalve said ^^^^^

I have a 5s for work. It is the only phone I carry. No cellphone bill for me. I use it for some personal stuff. Content must follow company policy.

I have an android, it is mine, but in order to access resources from it I was forced to agree to policy that allowed them unfettered access to my data. A wholly unagreeable situation.

I rooted the phone and faked out the agreement code to said policy such that I retain full authoritative rights over the phone and the "other" account only thinks it has them.

My phone. My rules.

Their phone, their rules.