Shared technology

[HoopsandEverything]

Please share how it is done in your homes. I am wondering if we are being unreasonable and too open with each others technology.

In our home it's just DP and I. Our technology is:

Personal Iphone (both one each), password code protected but we both know each others. If his phone is closer and I am making a "mutual" call (restaurant booking, mutual friend, GP appointment booking etc.) I will pick up and use his phone and vice versa. Occasionally he'll say "I had a text from so and so" with the expectation that I will scroll through and read what is happening (usually a close family friend with news).

We both have work phones and we can't access each others (work in quite a data sensitive environment).

No home phone. Our home wifi is for both of us, we both know the login details, where the router is stored and we have no 18+ filters set on it. It's in an open space. Not sure if you can access someone else's browsing history from a router.

Work laptops - I have two, he has one - all these are password protected due to where we work.

We both have personal laptops and a shared "family" PC. Both know passwords, and both use each others when more convenient if it's something quick, but usually make the effort to find our own. Family PC has one log in only so we both use the same one.

We have separate google accounts and separate itunes accounts, but that's as we've had them since we got together.

What's it like in your house? Do you expect each other to have more privacy with what they are viewing etc? There's been a few threads I've read that have made me think I should maybe be offering him more privacy.

Pretty much the same here. Own phones with PIN locks, but we both know each other's PIN. Work stuff private, but pc and laptop open for us both to use.

Never occurred to me that it's an issue. We're both comfortable with it, and to my knowledge neither of us has ever snooped.

Same, though we don't use each other's phones to make calls/text. Also have a shared network. Some stuff password protected due to work. Everything encrypted just in case.

We have work stuff (phones /laptops) that the other can't access for legal reasons.

We each have a personal phone, and share a home laptop. Would both use the others phone if couldn't find our own. Sometimes swap phones if convenient eg. one going out and battery dead. I think we may be a bit weird but we both know each other's passwords for Google accounts/Facebook and we share an Amazon/spotify/audible account...we don't stalk each other but are just a bit lax and occasionally order stuff through the others account/use each others cards if can't be bothered to get up and find own wallet etc. Not sure if that's usual though.

Pretty much the same here...

Personal iPhones and iPads with passwords but we know each other's. Use our own most of the time but might use each other's if our own battery is dead.

Personal laptops but we know each other's passwords. We tend to use our own but this is really just down to convenience rather than privacy.

TBH I think this is how a good, healthy relationship should work. What's with all the need for privacy if both people are just using it for the usual things?

Also there is private browsing so if either person really wanted to look something up with privacy they can....

DH and I know all of each other's passwords, pins etc. (and I do mean ALL - email, banking, cards etc etc just not work ones because of the nature of his job). I can't access his work phone or work laptop due to serious security encryption and multi layer passwords. He will often tell me "you've just had a text from x asking you blah blah". He doesn't have a personal mobile so will use mine for personal stuff if it's to hand. We share Amazon, itunes etc. At this time of year we don't look at each other's email to keep any Christmas stuff secret but the rest of the year it's a free for all.

Separate phones - they are work phones. Do not use the others phone unless e.g. One is driving and other needs to do directions or something.

Shared iPad.

Shared Netflix account.

Separate laptops - work ones.

Separate email, facebook, amazon, anything communication or financial

Separate iPhones, laptops and iPads- don't know each other's passwords.

Definitely don't share banking/website passwords etc. He's not on FB, Strava, Twitter or Instagram so we're not social media friends.

Share an iTunes account purely because we live overseas and only one of us still has an active UK credit card we can use to get UK iTunes.

Shared PC and laptop, we know the pins for each others phones and know each others passwords for various things. We also know the passwords we're likely to use so could make a good guess if needed, though usually just ask each other.

Dh doesn't use my tablet, but not for any privacy issues, he just prefers to use the PC or his phone.

We know each other's phone pins but wouldn't look through each other's phones as we have jobs/emails that require privacy.

So we might use the others phone but would never open the mail or messaging app.