Call History showing up on another iPhone

Something to be aware of if you are looking at the Family Sharing option. Family sharing does not automatically share all your apps when set up. Developers must agree to the family sharing. If they don't then you need to repurchase the app for that device. Also, in-app purchases also don't seem to transfer and in many cases need re-purchasing. All-in-all, family sharing is not the way to go for a trouble free family sharing environment and it will most certainly require you to shell out more money.

I still see absolutely no point in apple syncing call histories. Unless you are wealthy enough to keep an iPhone in every place you are likely to use it and want to be able to have the same call log on each device, I see no purpose of this function. I know no-one who owns more than one iPhone for personal use.

svsmailus wrote:

I still see absolutely no point in apple syncing call histories.

I use it constantly. I can initiate and answer iPhone calls from my Macbook Air, my Macbook Pro and my iPad. Having the recent list makes it easy to return calls from any device. So I see a definite point in the recent call sync feature.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I use it constantly. I can initiate and answer iPhone calls from my Macbook Air, my Macbook Pro and my iPad. Having the recent list makes it easy to return calls from any device. So I see a definite point in the recent call sync feature.

Can't argue with that! I never make or receive calls from my Mac or iPad. Don't want the intrusions, that's what my iPhone is for.

Perhaps apple can create a way to turn this feature off, especially on other iPhones? Maybe it's less likely that people want to answer and make calls on other iPhone's than their own?

Druidmagic wrote:

So even with the most recent update to 8.4, it appears the problem still persists. Has anyone found a solution yet?

It isn't fixed because it isn't broken. It's a feature and it's designed to work that way among devices sharing an Apple ID. However, a workaround is to turn off iPhone Cellular Calls in Settings/FaceTime and turn off Handoff in Settings/General on ALL devices sharing the Apple ID.

That may be conceived as a feature, but a poorly thought one if it cannot be turned off. Again, it may be useful for some users, but I do not want to mix the call lists of my personal and work phones... There is a reason I keep separate phones.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

It isn't fixed because it isn't broken...

Actually it is broken for many people who never wanted the feature to be added in iOS 8. It was not there previously, hence the many complaints.

Not allowing users to choose whether or not they want to use this "feature" is appalling, especially as Family Sharing is anything but and requires laborious setups including the adding of credit cards and still won't guarantee that you can actually share your apps as this requires the buy-in of the developers many of whom don't as it will increase their revenue.

All told, it is definitely broke for users who were quite happy before this "feature" was added.

Sadly there is no fix, unless apple puts in a switch to allow us to turn it off and considering the appalling decisions apple has made with it's own Mac apps (as seen by their extremely low users ratings) and the increased bugginess of iOS and OSX in general, I wouldn't put up much hope.

Steve Jobs we miss you!

guardajoias2 wrote:

That may be conceived as a feature, but a poorly thought one if it cannot be turned off. Again, it may be useful for some users, but I do not want to mix the call lists of my personal and work phones... There is a reason I keep separate phones.

That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've seen here. There is a reason you keep separate phones, yet you refuse to use separate iCloud IDs. Seriously?

It's not broken. You are. Your opinion of how well or poorly thought out it is is irrelevant.

Guess after all the past replies we still have the uneducated replies. we have shared our account for over 7 years. If you read my past posts mine has been resolved for over a month now. Just follow my changes i did. So please quit posting nonsense about stop sharing accounts!!

KIlted Tim what is your problem? Being aggressive and arrogant about something you obviously no nothing about. You are saying that shared calls lists, occurring at random between devices using the same AppleID is not a bug? The pure randomness and chaos about it screams "bug!"

I am the same person on my devices, so it certainly makes sense to keep the same Apple ID. But I can be the same person, and still keep separate call lists. It is not for you to decide that it is ridiculous that I want to keep my business and my personal call lists separate... and it never hurts to remain polite and civil.

Have a nice day.

darenH123, the problem with that "solution" is that it requires turning off Handoff entirely, which I do not want to do as I do use handoff otherwise. The only proper solution, if it must remain, is a clear switch so one can chose to have it work (but then it probably should work both ways reliably which is not the case today) or not (as most of us here would prefer).

KiltedTim wrote:

That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've seen here. There is a reason you keep separate phones, yet you refuse to use separate iCloud IDs. Seriously?

It's not broken. You are. Your opinion of how well or poorly thought out it is is irrelevant.

Oh yes seriously. Let's see now, did I have this problem on any iOS prior to 8? Answer: NO. Do I have the problem now: YES! Then it's broken. Of course we could create a proverb here that might help the argument:

"One man's feature is another man's problem"

Why in a family would you want to keep accounts separately? Let me guess in your household every family member has their food in separate places, does it's own shopping and pays for all their food separately using their own credit/debit cards? 😉 I can understand the separation for business and keeping it separate from Personal. But not in a family. Since the invention of the iPhone families have been happily sharing their accounts for a multitude of reasons. Apple's Family sharing is way off beam and does not appropriately fill that need. Until now apple have been very happy with people sharing IDs. Only that sharing process that has been working perfectly well for millions of users for 8 years broke with the introduction of iOS 8, hence folks are looking for a fix.

Oh I wasn't saying the issue has been resolved, I was just stating how I got mine to quit having my call logs on my wife's phone. No, the problem is still there as out of the box you shouldn't have to make any changes if you share an account for call logs to be on other devices. I think Apple needs to step up and OWN this problem and fix it. People need to call in as each and everytime I do they say it's the first time they have heard of it.....

I agree with this, and appreciate your lack of a nasty tone. I've always said that for me, the headaches (and this is one of them) of sharing an apple id are worth it.

That's because, at least right now, sharing and working on photos with my fiancé is very important to me. The family sharing and various other methods Apple wants us to use just don't work very well. Family sharing and shared albums don't support photo keywords or folders very well at all. Those things are important to me. For that reason we choose to use the same Apple ID. I know that's not what Apple would prefer, but I'd prefer it if they supported a true family photo sharing plan.

Anyway, I know the upside and downside and prefer to do it my way. Now if some of the experts on this forum would mellow out a bit, that would be nice.

CSound1, do you even know what this thread is about? It is about recent calls list being shared amongst devices using the same AppleID. The calls list are shared at random, with no pattern at all, between some, or all of the devices (once again with no rule at all just complete chaos). And you say this is OK and that everyone who experiences this problem is dumb. I think you should look at yourself. I personally have 4 iPhones each of them with SIM cards from different countries. They are each used for completely different purposes and in no way should be shared. People writing about handoff and all this other stuff are talking about a DIFFERENT issue. They're mistakenly talking about calls appearing at the same time on different phones or devices. That is NOT the issue of this thread, this is about recent call lists being mixed at random between devices. It is not fixed. It is clearly a bug. So wake up or get out of this forum please.