iPhone call history shared between devices after iOS 17 Update

Someone please fix this. I have a work phone and personal phone. I don’t need them both to be connected.

That is really a problem. I have the same ID with my wife and dont want her to see my call history. So WTF is going on Apple? Bring back the possibility to chancel this ****.

If you share 1 Apple ID for 2 people, + since updating to iOS 17, you now get the auto-sync of each others’ voice mails and each others’ recent call logs.

According to a senior Apple adviser who call me 1 week ago, after first checking with his engineering team, the solution is supposed to be to just turn off BOTH ‘Phone’ + ‘FaceTime’ in iCloud on the 2 iPhones. Then, you should notice that the auto-sync described above has stopped.

However, I tried it. Voice mail syncing did stop but recent call log syncing did not stop.

So, the Apple senior adviser said he agrees with me that this is definitely a bug as it is not working as intended per his engineers, and he will follow up with his engineers to ask them to research this issue and to fix it.

I've already provided feedback. Is there a rule that I'm not allowed to voice my support of the OP and provide the reasons why? Or are all responses supposed to only be providing reasons why the OP is wrong?

This update is the worse. I don’t want my call log going to every device I own under account. I have children who are on my account. Guess I’ll start looking at andriods. This should be at the users discretion.

Agreed, it none of apple’s business what users do with their own apple ID, what apple is doing is allowing the unwanted sync of data and information.

I have found a solution to stop the unwanted synchronization of data and info.

Ok. On device you don’t want your information going to. Go to settings, click on your name at the top. Click on iCloud, select Show All tab, scroll down and remove all the tabs highlighted green. Should be good to go now.

Hope this helps!!!

Call History on multiple devices problem solved after IOS 17 update:

Go to - Settings - Apple ID - iCloud - Show All - scroll down to Phone and turn off toggle - Hope this helps, It solved my problem with 3 iPhones with the same Apple ID.

I’m having this same issue and it’s infuriating. I stand with OP and everyone else who wants this fixed!

Along with submitting feedback to Apple (which I have also done), I think we need to make noise on social media; particularly Reddit and X/Twitter. If Apple gets a good lambasting over this in the public eye it may get their attention.

Hopefully we’ll get some form of fix soon!

This is not true. I have 2 iPhones one for work(self employed) and one for personal. I don’t need to separate for “security “ reasons as I am the only owner/user of both phones. I got a second iPhone to separate my work calls. At the end of the day I silence my work phone and don’t look at until the next day. Now there is no way to separate it? This is not a security concern or Apple ID sharing issue.

I had this happen as well. I stopped it by going to Apple ID-iCloud-apps using iCloud-scroll down to phone and toggle off.

That’s your opinion. I have my own opinion.

Your opinion is not automatically right just because it’s yours.

i choose to wait and see what my various follow-ups with Apple yield.

Yup, I know that now from further research. Toggling off the phone app does not do a thing and likely never will because as you said, and as I found out, Apple changed this on purpose to encourage people to create separate IDs. I thought about creating a new Apple ID on the other phone and using family share, but then I found out that it does not work for Sharing contacts and for that reason alone, I will continue to share my Apple ID with my wife. For us it’s not a big deal to see each each other’s call logs. Just wish we had the choice.