Really terrible idea to share iCloud accounts. That’s what family sharing is for.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Wish I could upvote this more than once. Apple IDs are not meant to be shared. It will cause a whole mess of issues. I used to work Apple support and can't tell you how many times I had to help people untangle this.
don’t worry, I upvoted for you
You can contact Apple support to see if they can help. Would be interesting to see if they all shut down at the same time, and if they did whether there was a logged reason. I would probably start a chat session from the support website for your iMac and tell them all the devices that were affected. I assume an iDevice will have a log of shutting itself down (if that’s what happened), I’m certain an iMac does.
Question: were your impacted devices actively charging while sleeping AND were there any weather events last night?
I am thinking maybe fluctuations in the power line might have caused the devices to shutoff and protect themselves. Usually, this is not an issue if you use a power surge protector between the wall and devices; or surge protection at the circuit breaker panel.
Also, would like to repeat what others have said about sharing iCloud accounts. It would be best to setup individual accounts for everybody and setup a “Family” if you want to share purchases (IAPs, Apple TV, …)
They were charging. We have surge protection on the circuit breaker panel. Could it have been too low a surge to flip the breaker but too high for the IOS devices? It didn't happen again last night, so thats a positive.
Thanks for the advice on Family accounts (you and everyone else who have mentioned it). I already have my daughter on a separate account, but will spilt my wife off for security reasons.
My daughter’s iPhone makes phone calls by itself when nobody’s touching it
Yep, and my phone looks up porn on its own when no one is touching it.
I thought it was just mine that did that.