my iphone is showing my wife's recent calls, how to I stop this

Bob Cohen wrote:

My new iPhone is now showing my wife's recent calls. We share the same Apple ID. How do I stop this from happening. It did this when we first got our iPhones several years ago and I did something to stop it but I can't remember what I did.

Above is correct. Stop sharing.

A whole lot of stuff will work as designed—and often not as preferred—if an Apple ID is shared.

Here is an intro to what is involved when disentangling a shared Apple ID:

… Stop sharing Apple ID with wife - Apple Community

Quick Fix to Separate Voicemails:

To prevent voicemails from merging, follow these steps:

1. Open Settings on your iPhone.
2. Tap on your Apple ID at the top.
3. Scroll down and select iCloud.
4. Find Phone and turn off the switch next to it to disable iCloud sync for phone features.
5. Make a phone call and leave a voicemail to check if the issue is resolved.

Keep in mind that this is a temporary solution. Apple may make further changes to prevent account sharing. If you want a more permanent fix:

here is another article I’m attaching here as well that also tells you that they recommend you not share one with anyone even a family member or a friend this is just so you can keep your information secure Security and your Apple ID - Apple Support

Hello, Just like the other people said you shouldn’t be sharing an Apple ID together it doesn’t matter how many years you have had it together but it can cause problems for you down the line. Even if you was able to get the issue resolved. A lot of people do this and they end up having issues especially if it’s more than two people sharing the same account. Here is an article with some info Make sure that each family member has a unique Apple ID - Apple Support

You need to stop sharing an Apple ID. Workarounds that used to work may not continue to do so once iOS changes.

alan8254 wrote:

This is really weird , we never had this problem until recently when my wife got a new iPad. Now we get only each others phone messages. This is a problem that we shouldn’t have to deal with.

You chose sharing when you shared the password, so I fail to see any issue here.

You wanted sharing, and you got sharing.

Sharing has been and will only get more pervasive, too.

Anybody with that Apple ID can ~permanently brick everything associated with it too, and much more.

If you want to share apps and services and purchases, but not your data, and not the ability to brick devices, set up Family Sharing.

DRP2017 wrote:

They need to find another way of fixing this other than separate IDs. We have a six year old and immediately want to see each others photos of her as we both work full time and are events with her separately. According to apple there isn't a way to share all photos automatically if you have two Apple IDs. It can only be done if you both use the same ID. So that’s the reason and it is not logical for us to have separate IDs. We have the same issue with call logs and are forced to ignore it to obtain the benefits we enjoy which is immediate access to photos in real time.

Aggregating and intermixing everything is not a fix.

You can view those photos by logging into iCloud while your child still allows that (if and when the child has an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad), and your child can then choose to share photos via album, or a shared photo library; all as likely has been described to you in your discussions with Apple. When parents are sharing an Apple ID, y’all are going to get all sorts of unrelated photos, mixed passwords, and the rest of the expected results.

As for other potential options that might exist, please post your own thread asking for assistance with immediately sharing photos.

Or more commonly, each person can upload selected photos to a shared album as the events happen, from their own Apple ID.

Also log feedback with Apple suggesting a means to automatically upload photos (from a child’s iPhone or iPod touch or iPad) to a shared album, but I’d suspect that request might encounter privacy concerns as it’s seemingly also prone to misuse.

Sharing an Apple ID shares all associated data. It also means that your six year old can brick all of your devices, or can delete some or all of these photos, if they also have access to that shared Apple ID.

You’re wasting electrons by posting your opinion here. Apple is not here. Send them feedback. HTTPS://apple.com/feedback

NO ONE here can do anything to change it.

They need to find another way of fixing this other than separate IDs. We have a six year old and immediately want to see each others photos of her as we both work full time and are events with her separately. According to apple there isn't a way to share all photos automatically if you have two Apple IDs. It can only be done if you both use the same ID. So that’s the reason and it is not logical for us to have separate IDs. We have the same issue with call logs and are forced to ignore it to obtain the benefits we enjoy which is immediate access to photos in real time.

Thanks but I’m not sharing with a six year old child. Just my wife and the other steps do not work for her so we deal with the small issues of sharing an id for the benefit of having the immediate access to precious photos.

DRP2017 wrote:

Thanks but I’m not sharing with a six year old child. Just my wife and the other steps do not work for her so we deal with the small issues of sharing an id for the benefit of having the immediate access to precious photos.

So to confirm, your spouse is willing to share everything else of theirs including the ability to brick devices and this to avoid an explicit share of these particular photos, and the thing that pushed this over the edge was sharing your phone data with your spouse?

That's still headed for trouble, though.

Log some feedback with Apple of course, but I'd expect Apple will suggest using per-person Apple IDs, and the existing selective photo-sharing mechanisms.

Each member of my family DOES have a separate Apple ID. I have two iPhones. Both of them are mine. Why should I have two Apple IDs for one person? I have been an Apple customer since 1979, I own the stock. I'm about ready to go to Android.

Ziatron wrote:

Each member of my family DOES have a separate Apple ID. I have two iPhones. Both of them are mine. Why should I have two Apple IDs for one person? I have been an Apple customer since 1979, I own the stock. I'm about ready to go to Android.

We don't care what you do. This is not a place to debate whether you like the way it works. No one here has any control over how it works. We are not Apple. All we can do is state facts. The fact is that this is the way it works.

You can take that information and do whatever you want with it.

This is really weird , we never had this problem until recently when my wife got a new iPad. Now we get only each others phone messages. This is a problem that we shouldn’t have to deal with.

Correct. That’s why you shouldn’t share an Apple ID.