Two iPhones belonging to ONE person that share an Apple ID share a call history. How do you turn it off?

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Two iPhones belonging to ONE person that share an Apple ID share a call history. How do you turn it off?

I have two phones in MY name, one for work and one personal. I don't want to share call history between them. If there is a missed call, I can't tell which number was called and I don't want to call them back from the wrong phone as I don't want clients to have my personal number (or I'd just have one phone).

I don't want a separate ID because they are both MY phones with MY notes and MY reminders and MY calendar.

Is there not a fix for this? I found this being asked in forums going back 8 years. It seems that with all the useless updates you've come up with since then, you could solve this one that people have been asking about for nearly a decade.

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 12

Posted on Jan 11, 2023 8:59 AM

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Jan 11, 2023 10:19 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

That's definitely something to think about. I don't store anything locally at this time, so hopefully that won't become an issue.

I did just figure out that disabling iMessage and Facetime on one phone seems to have solved my problem. I can still access all my notes, reminders and calendar without sharing a call history and duplicating texts on the other phone.

The downside obviously being that I cannot use iMessage or Facetime on that phone, but I can still text and use Teams for video calls. It might not work for everybody, but this solves it for me.

Thanks again for you input!

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Jan 11, 2023 9:10 AM in response to melany1000

There is no fix for what is not broken. That is how sharing an Apple ID between devices works and is designed to work. One solution is to have different Apple IDs on the two phones and link them with Family Sharing. Or just 2 Apple IDs, and share notes, reminders and calendar.

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melany1000 Author

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Jan 11, 2023 9:21 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Thanks, that might be the workaround I need. I still think each phone should have it's own log. It doesn't make sense to have the phone logs connected, and many others feel this way. If there's not a way to separate it I'll try what you said. I appreciate the suggestion.

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Jan 11, 2023 9:37 AM in response to melany1000

I don’t know anything about your work or employer, but if your employer provides an MS Exchange email account on your work phone they effectively control the security features of the phone, and may legally own the data on the phone.

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Two iPhones belonging to ONE person that share an Apple ID share a call history. How do you turn it off?

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