How to disable call history sharing between two iPhone 16s running iOS 18.3?

I have 2 iPhone 16's, both with iOS 18.3 (one was just updated from 18.2.1 today). Calls on one phone show in the history on the other phone. How can this be disabled? I can't find anything in the community that addresses it in a recent iOS.



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iPhone 16, iOS 18

Posted on Feb 6, 2025 3:20 PM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2025 3:32 PM

cd.scott wrote:

Yes, same ID. I had it turned off under an earlier iOS, and different phones, but my new phones apparently didn't remember that from my iCloud restore.

Things changed with iOS 17 and have continued with iOS 18. They won't likely ever change as for more than a decade, Apple has advised people to not share the same Apple Account.


Read this --> Make sure that each family member has a unique Apple Account - Apple Support


If you want to stop this behavior, a very respected member of this forum, wrote this user tip to help you unshare your account --> How to “unshare” an Apple ID - Apple Community

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Feb 6, 2025 6:05 PM in response to lobsterghost1

Yes, I understand all that. Not my first time using an iPhone. I understand recents/history and it doesn’t show them on her iPhone. For example I got 14 phone calls in the last hour that show in recents/history. She has zero showing in recents.


That “something isn’t working” is what I’m curious about. Clearly everyone thinks it should work that way, but it doesn’t. Things don’t just randomly happen on an iphone. It must be a setting. I mentioned to Bob that I thought it might be an iCloud syncing issue. That’s the only way call history could be shared. What iCloud syncing setting disables the history be synced and shared?

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