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Use one Apple ID on every farm phone to skip repaying for the proxy app

Failed: TikTok linked the accounts, one flag hit all; lost 120 work hours

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What they did

To download the paid proxy/IP client once, logged into every phone with the same Apple ID. TikTok fingerprints Apple IDs, linked all accounts as one device regardless of different IPs, and one flagged account hurt the rest.

What happened

Cost a week of work for three people (120 hours).
Effort
All farm phones

In their words

An Nayal - Full App Growth Guide 2026 - How to Make Viral Content to Get Users & Make Your App Retentive

Play from 26:50

An Nayal… about downloading the TikTok app on your phone and setting it up right. It starts from setting up the entire iPhone. Like, setting up the entire iPhone from scratch. You have to reset the entire iPhone, you have to make sure there are no fingerprints left on the iPhone, then the Apple ID. One thing we learned along the way, one of the shortcuts I took is we paid for our IP provider, which is a client which allows us to link up different proxies.

26:50

An NayalI paid for it, and I thought I would be clever, I would use the same Apple ID to log into every phone so I could download the client for free, I won't have to pay for it again and again. It cost us a week of our work time, that is 40 hours for three people, 120 hours. Why? Because we realized once we did that, that TikTok has a way of fingerprinting Apple IDs, and when you do that across multiple phones, it connects all these Apple IDs and the accounts linked with them under one device.

27:16

An NayalSo doesn't matter if you had a different IP, doesn't matter if you had a different setup on a different phone, because we used the same Apple ID, all of these accounts were connected, and one account getting flagged led to the other accounts being impacted as well.

27:27

JosephInteresting. So you're you're simulating a brand-new person setting up a brand-new iPhone, so you're kind of like factory resetting, make sure you don't have the fingerprints, new Apple ID for each phone. You have a proxy as well for each phone to have in different locations.

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