After getting the iphone 6, incoming calls simultaneously ring on my kids' phones that are also on my account. How do I stop this from happening?
iPhone 6, iOS 8
Now I understand why this is happening. And found the disable/Unable option in the settings of any Iphones. I hope this help's alot of people. Knowing that other brands don't do this kind of thing. Apple did it again! They have good ideas, but be carfull when using this functions, because it can be dangerous when you don't other people to know your personal calls/ or other confidential information.
You go into settings/Phone/Calls on other devices (There you will be able to disable or enable the function). Do as you like, and hope this helped you Iphone lovers you.
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.
HAve you figured this out yet? Mine are doing the same thing and I need help fixing this.
I thought I'd reply and explain how my issue was resolved. Basically, my issue was that when somebody called my wife, it rang my phone as well. It didn't matter whether it was a US SIM card or another one, both phones were being rung.
It turns out the cause was due to a friend who had my number AND my wife's number stored in the same contact. She had both our UK numbers and our single USA phone number all together in a single contact. I can't believe I didn't think to check that until Apple told me that was the only explanation (after pouring through 100s of MB of log data).
So yeah. This might not have anything to do with the vast majority of people in this thread but I thought I better mention it. My thanks to Apple for taking my bug report seriously.
Tfhall wrote:
HAve you figured this out yet? Mine are doing the same thing and I need help fixing this.
Well, you could just read a few of the 50-odd messages in this thread and find out what others have said about it.
Turning off handoff IS the solution. Thank you! Calls now do not span 2 phones at the same time.
This only happens with multiple devices sharing apple IDs and iCloud and being on wifi at the time. Turning off hand off made no difference but turning off the cellular option in face time does work. Face time/iPhone Mobile Calls/off. If you read the description under this setting you can see exactly how it is meant to work. I can only assume it is so that you can receive incoming calls on an ipad or other device unless of course you have more than one iPhone of your own.
Apple has an option to do this!
In setting, go to "phone" and see "Calls on other devices" and turn it off or select any other device you want to get calls at same time!
enjoy
:-)
Daurbino wrote:
Apple has an option to do this!
In setting, go to "phone" and see "Calls on other devices" and turn it off or select any other device you want to get calls at same time!
enjoy
:-)
This option was already available prior to iOS 9, but in a different place (was in FaceTime settings). With iOS 9 the setting is logically placed under the Phone settings.
My problem is FaceTime rings on both mine and my wife's iPhone. We have our own iCloud accounts. My wife is also part of our Family Sharing group. Strange behaviour - Still searching here to find similar problem.
You might wish to investigate "Family Sharing." It's pretty slick.
Unfortunately "Family Sharing" does not provide for the sharing of Calendars and Contacts. This is a critical flaw.
It is ALWAYS a mistake to share an Apple ID with another person.
williamshome5 wrote:
Unfortunately "Family Sharing" does not provide for the sharing of Calendars and Contacts. This is a critical flaw.
Incorrect. My wife and I share a calendar and each one of us is alerted when the other adds or changes something.
incoming calls ring on multiple phone numbers
