incoming calls ring on multiple phone numbers

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.

in fact they're not even consistenly shared (the recent call lists) but mixed some how. Some of the calls appear on two of the phones, some don't, and some appear on all 4 phones. No pattern whatsoever. OH but its not a bug Deggie!

There are clearly several bugs here and I am working through one of them with apple support as we speak.

My case is two separate phones, two separate icloud IDs, and a facetime call to my wife's phone rings my phone as well. And since it rings my phone it also rings my computer, but I have set that up so that part is expected.

I think FaceTime struggles when a SIM card is periodically shared between two phones. E.g., I have a USA SIM card that I use when I go to the States. My wife uses the same card when she goes. Somehow the association of that phone number is stuck with both our phones even though we're both in the UK again using our UK SIM cards. And, even when my wife is in the USA still using the USA SIM card, it rings her phone in the US and my phone in the UK at the same time.

So yeah, there are bugs. To repeatedly tell people there aren't is kinda rude.

Well said Jon. I have SIM cards, from Germany, Austria, Australia and Italy and also sometimes switch them between phones. The way that various Apps handle this is a disaster. Its one of many issues.