incoming calls ring on multiple phone numbers

You can use Find my iPhone with different Apple IDs. And also share apps and music among those IDs. Family Sharing - Apple Support

In addition to what Lawrence suggests, you can also set up and use Find My Friends to know where the others are. Instead of Family Share, you can also use a common ID for purchases and separate IDs for iCloud -- you can have more than one ID and it is painless to set up and nothing to maintain.

Why are you asking people to stop using a feature they have used for years to prevent a clear bug from happening? If I use different IDs for every device then what happens to all of the apps purchased? Find my iPhone shows all of my devices on the one screen , I don't need to log in and out with different IDs. So I need 10IDs, 10 new passwords and security questions? It's absurd. I fail to understand why Apple keeps connecting devices which use the same ID and yet have different phone numbers. It's completely illogical. And why anyone would want their call list replicated on another device is beyond me. Also can't understand who would want more than one device to ring at the same time. It's plain dumb.

Because a feature you have used for years has been augmented with a new feature called Family Sharing. But if you don't want to use it you can still solve the problem. This is a feature called "continuity." You can answer any device from any other. If you don't want it go to Settings/FaceTime on each phone, turn it on if it is off, then turn off iPhone Cellular Calls. You can then leave FaceTime on or turn it off, as you desire.

I find it a very valuable feature, as I can answer my phone from my iPad, my iMac, my MacBook Pro, or my backup iPhone. And also initiate calls from my computer without pulling out my phone. Which is why I'm happy Apple provided it. But if it doesn't meet your needs, simply turn it off.

Lawrence I have turned it off on all devices some weeks ago and thank God this annoying "feature" has dissappeared. I have heard similar complaints from colleagues that have for example a German SIM card in one iPhone and an Austrian in the other. It annoys the **** out of them when both ring especially since one is in international roaming. Really this feature causes much more trouble than good.

The replicated call list problem currently has no solution . Or do you have any ideas other than creating new IDs which is impractical.

You're not paying attention. You can use one ID for purchases for all devices -- that way all the apps you have can continued to be shared across devices.

For devices that you don't want iCloud/continuity features to be shared, set up separate IDs just for iCloud (keeping the common ID for purchases). These extra IDs are a one-time set up, and you don't need 10 different passwords -- use the same password for all for simplicity. As far as security questions, that I believe is optional, but if required would be a one-time setup and you can use the same questions/answers for all IDs.

Going this route DOES address the call list issue you mention -- my wife and I share an ID for purchases, but use separate IDs for iCloud and we do not get each other's call list.

This continuity feature is great, I happen to love it for my iPhone/ iPad, and Mac, and so do many users (which is why it was developed). If you don't like it or find it cumbersome, then you have simple workarounds to get what you want.

I Personally have iPhones with German, Austrian and Australian SIMs and they are always turned on. So Apple is saying that it is a good feature to make all phones ring , regardless of which country you're in. Imagine the roaming costs incurred due to Apple's "feature " . Whereas I can understand linking an iPad and iMac to the iPhone, iPhone's using the same ID clearly have different phone numbers connected to them (possibly even with SIM cards from differrent countries in them - as in my case) and hence should never be connected in any way whatsoever.

SO you are saying I should create different Apple IDs for each iPhone (which are all mine but have SIM cards from different countries in them). This seems so inefficient. Look anyway there is a workaround for the "phones ringing at the same time problem". But not for the "recent call lists replication" bug. This is a bug, definitely not a feature, and should be fixed.

Wrong again. Continuity features like having phone calls come in on multiple devices require the devices to be in Wi-Fi range of each other. As far as your carrier is concerned, the phone call is only coming in on the phone whose number is associated with the call. That device then alerts the others over Wi-Fi that there is an incoming call. No extra charges involved.

OK you think it's a good feature - for me it stops me from knowing which number they actually called! I don't want to answer someone who called my Australian phone when I'm in Germany for example to avoid roaming costs. With this feature I cannot know which number they actually called!

any idea how to stop the replicated recent call lists problem?

robdinoto wrote:

Look anyway there is a workaround for the "phones ringing at the same time problem". But not for the "recent call lists replication" bug. This is a bug, definitely not a feature, and should be fixed.

Again, you're not paying attention. Using separate iCloud IDs DOES fix the recent calls list, calm down and actually read what I wrote in my last post.

Rob? Bueller? Anyone?

all good Rocky. still think the big should be fixed though.

It isn't a bug so it won't be fixed.

it isn't a bug that the recent calls lists are mixed between phones holding different SIM cards? If you think that isn't a bug, then your logic is mis-guided, sorry.