App Development on OLD iPhone for Personal use

I'm a retired software developer. I want to create apps to use on my iPhone for my own use. I have one of my old iPhones, that has been reset, that I want to set up so I can use it for testing and occasionally use the internet, no cellular use. Cellular is turned off.

When I go to set it up, it wants me to login with my Apple ID. I don't want using this phone to hose up my active iPhone.

I have a couple questions:

  1. If I sign-in the Test iPhone with my current Apple ID, will it ***** up my active iPhone?
  2. Do I need to have a different Apple ID to use for development?
  3. Reading other posts, it seems this Test iPhone has to be active? What does that actually mean?

I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

Not sure what you mean by 3, what exactly have you read?

App Development on OLD iPhone for Personal use
 
 
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