Well I've seen a lot of people ask about this feature in conjunction with a Family Share Plan and I wish Verizon would re-word how it actually works on their web site as it is kind of unclear as to how other accounts in the plan are handled. It seems to me that if you have My Verizon and you have a Family Share plan with mulitple accounts then the Primary account holder (and only that individual) can have his/her contact book uploaded and ready for download to that Primary account phone or to any of the other account phones. I could be wrong on this and if I am somebody correct me but that is how it appears to me.
However, if this is correct then I would propose to Verizon that they change this so that each account can have their own contact book uploaded and ready for backup in addition to just the Primary. Reason being the Primary account holder may well have some numbers listed that may be private. Also, a family would practically never have the exact same numbers in their respective contact books.
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Ahha! Now we're getting somewhere. First let me say thanks BassPro for the information! The missing link that is NOT mentioned on the provided link is the fact that a text message is sent to the Primary account holder who has to give an OK to going any further. The web site doesn't provide that missing link piece of info and I was going nuts trying to figure things out . . . LOL!
Now, in another similar thread a new poster provided the below information which doesn't include the text message to the Primary account owner asking their OK. I'm not sure if this below method works but this below method isn't found anywhere on the site either. I really wish Verizon would restructure and simplify this whole section. Anyway, below is what the other poster said is another way:
"You can have Backup Assistant for each line on your Family plan, as I do, but Verizon does make it difficult to figure out. First, of course, you need your primary line enrolled in MY Verizon. Next, after you have set up you primary line Backup Asst. you will have to log off and log onto Backup Asst. (register) for each of your other phone lines in your family share account. Either use an id or the cell phone number as the id and pick a password.
The link is https://backupassistant.vzw.com
Once this is set up you can have Backup Asst for each line and the content can be different for each and each user can manage their own contacts.
You can not access all the Backup Asst accounts through your My Verizon but if you access you own and sign out while in the Backup Asst web page you can then log on to one of the othe phone number accounts."
Hi! This does start to get complicated huh? OK, it looks like to me that since you are the primary account holder but no longer have a qualifying device that would even allow you to access backup assistant then indeed you would not be able to see any of the other lines for this reason. The only workaround I can see is to either list one of the other qualifying devices as the primary device. However, this really only give the holder of THAT device the ability to see them all and not you. I suppose the only way around this is for you to get a qualifying device or swap phones with one of the other devices. I could be wrong on this but that's how it looks to me.
Hello and welcome! This basically means that if you (as Primary Account Holder) signs up for "My Verizon" (a free service) then the normal $1.99 fee for Backup Assistant is waived.
