Roughly every time my wife’s new M3 MacBook Air wakes from sleep, she is being prompted to log on to my Apple Account (she is already logged on to her account):
Ages ago, for reasons lost to failing memory, I had my wife log on to her own Apple Account, as well as mine. It’s caused some minor inconveniences over time (confusing “Me” entries in Contacts, e.g.), so when she got her new Mac for Christmas (which we set up using Migration Assistant from her old 2018 MBA), I thought it would be a good time to stop that process. So far, she reports no loss of functionality from not being logged in as me, but canceling the prompts is getting annoying.
Have you checked in Sys Pref, Mail, Calendar, or Contacts if anything is left over connected to you account? (Search “Accounts”) Did you download an App from the AppStore under your name, even a free app, that could be downloaded and replaced by one in her account, even if it is under Family Sharing?
I assume you’re referring to a user login account, and if so, no, I do not. But I’ll go ahead and check the Login Items to see if there’s anything odd there.
So it looks like my wife had been signed in to Apple Music under my ID on the old computer. I chose “Sign off”, and so far no further prompts to log in as me. Fingers crossed (or thumbs held, as I’m told my Swedish friends do).
My Swedish is a bit rusty but I think they distinguish between crossing fingers (korsa fingrarna) and holding thumbs (hålla tummarna).
We cross fingers for good luck. Which is why we cross our fingers (often hidden) when we lie (nullifying a promise)— as in, good luck needed to avoid punishment for lying.
For Swedes on the other hand the lie is the meaning of crossed fingers. And thus they need something else for good luck. They use holding thumbs as a sign of rooting for somebody (as the equivalent of our hoping for good outcome).
I believe the Germans use that in a very similar way (die Daumen drücken, or den Daumen drücken? never sure about singular/plural there).
In Swedish also note the subtle differences: korsa fingrarna is the right expression, not krossa fingrarna (as I once mistakenly attempted) — that would mean crushing your fingers.
