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Call History showing up on another iPhone

Hi,


Hopefully you can help.


I use my phone for business and we have noticed in the last few days that all of the calls I make and receive are appearing in my wife's iPhone recent call history?


I have hunted high and low in settings on both phones but with no joy.


It is only affecting calls i make, not the other way round? so i am not seeing calls my wife makes on her phone in my recent call history?


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It is also not affecting text messages...

We are both using the same iCloud account but the inconsistencies above suggest its something more involved (or very simple!)


The slightly odd thing is that it only seems to do it when my phone is at home, i went out this afternoon and the calls made/received have not appeared on her history. so maybe its a wifi thing?...but...


I also phoned vodafone when i got home to see if they could help (they couldn't!) and that short dial number is also not appearing on her history?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.3

Posted on May 22, 2015 10:46 AM

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Posted on Jan 3, 2017 8:15 PM

Yes me is two separate people with different names, numbers and emails. Why would I create a separate accounts when we have had iPhones for 5 years with no problems before? This thread is on page 126 on my phone, that has been mentioned ad nauseum. I want the phones to work like they have the last 5 years.

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Jul 10, 2015 5:40 PM in response to Joewalsh91

Frequently asked questions about Apple ID - Apple Support


Quoting:


Can I share my Apple ID with someone else?

You shouldn't share your Apple ID with anyone else. It provides access to personal information including contacts, photos, device backups, and more. Sharing your Apple ID with someone else means you're giving them access to all your personal content, and it may lead to confusion about who actually owns the account.

To share photos, a calendar, iTunes purchases and more with someone else, try these sharing features.

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Jul 11, 2015 12:10 PM in response to Joewalsh91

Use their services. The Apple system WORKS AS INTENDED. This support community is designed to help people that are having trouble with their systems that are not working as intended. We are here to help with that. Right now you're taking up space on the server and distracting people from actually helping with someone that's actually having a problem with their system not working as intended.
Apple ID was never intended as a solution for multiple people. It was possible to use with multiple people, but now it's not without having issues with your data syncing across all of the devices. If you want to argue about whether or not this syncing service is the one you want to use, head to mac rumors or gizmodo or something.

You can send feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback if you think they should have a different type of cloud service, but it's not likely that it's going to change.

Jul 12, 2015 10:57 AM in response to jhcarw

jhcarw wrote:


We're not supposed to be using a shared Apple ID on both of our iPhones for poorly clarified reasons...

I don't consider these words from Apple to be poorly clarified.


Can I share my Apple ID with someone else?

You shouldn't share your Apple ID with anyone else. It provides access to personal information including contacts, photos, device backups, and more. Sharing your Apple ID with someone else means you're giving them access to all your personal content, and it may lead to confusion about who actually owns the account.

To share photos, a calendar, iTunes purchases and more with someone else, try these sharing features.

Jul 15, 2015 5:46 PM in response to socalpk

Here's the thing. IOS devices have ALWAYS been designed as single-user devices. On the flip side, one user could always be associated with multiple devices. "Way back when" it was reasonably painless to ignore that design characteristic but, with each major IOS level change, the difficulties increased and, for you, they finally reached the breaking point.


This is not a "newly added bug" but rather the latest evolvement in the single-user & multiple device concept. The system IS functioning as intended and Apple HAS said so.


Use the same Apple ID for both Store purchases and iCloud (recommended)

We recommend that you use the same Apple ID for Store purchases and iCloud. Using multiple Apple IDs might be confusing and might cause issues with accessing purchased content or using some services.


Can I share my Apple ID with someone else?

You shouldn't share your Apple ID with anyone else. It provides access to personal information including contacts, photos, device backups, and more. Sharing your Apple ID with someone else means you're giving them access to all your personal content, and it may lead to confusion about who actually owns the account.

To share photos, a calendar, iTunes purchases and more with someone else, try these sharing features.


Can I merge multiple Apple IDs into one?

Apple IDs can't be merged. We recommend that you use the same Apple ID in the iTunes Store and iCloud. Using multiple Apple IDs might be confusing and might cause issues with accessing purchased content or using some services.

Aug 21, 2015 4:41 PM in response to Osama.Hamaydeh

Osama.Hamaydeh wrote:



I am using my own THREE ( 3 ) devices and they are ( iPhone 6 ) and really my recent calls issue is completely making my daily life very difficult and this has to be solved immediately by Apple in the next update .... since the iPhone 4s i am using 3 devices for my own personal and business use with same apple id and never had such problem in my recent calls duplication between the 3 phones .... MY Message to the high level guys to report this serious problem to Apple ios teams instead of fighting us because they have no answer or solution.

😮😮😮

Yes, if you use the same Apple ID on both phones, your recent calls will be synced across devices. This is expected behavior. You are just as capable of reporting your displeasure with this as anyone else. So, do it yourself:


http://www.apple.com/feedback

Aug 27, 2015 3:08 PM in response to Squidaped

Squidaped wrote:


Now I'm curious which syncing item they are sneaking this under or if it's not covered by any of the select-able options.

Because it's an underlying part of how Apple IDs work. It's the way they are supposed to work. Until Apple decides they should work differently, this is the way things are. Not everything in life is user-selectable.


Submit your feedback to Apple requesting something different here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Sep 30, 2015 8:28 AM in response to barneyman

Hello,


Please read this article Use Continuity to connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac - Apple Support


Turn off Handoff

To turn off Handoff on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps, and turn off Handoff.

On your Mac, go to System Preferences > General and uncheck the Allow Handoff setting.



Good luck

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Oct 17, 2015 6:06 AM in response to barneyman

This is a bug. There is no feature that is documented claiming that call history lists are necessarily to be shared with the same Apple ID. If there was, it would happen all the time, not randomly. Also someone should be able to post a link to that claim and I haven't seen one yet (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202659). Yes, if one doesn't share Apple IDs, the problem goes away. But shared Apple ID was designed for a user with multiple devices and they may want the call history lists separate just like fingerprints are stored on separate devices. Splitting Apple IDs is a workaround, not a solution.

Nov 5, 2015 6:25 AM in response to JAta2

Frequently asked questions about Apple ID - Apple Support


You shouldn't share your Apple ID with anyone else. It provides access to personal information including contacts, photos, device backups, and more. Sharing your Apple ID with someone else means you're giving them access to all your personal content, and it may lead to confusion about who actually owns the account.

To share photos, a calendar, iTunes purchases and more with someone else, try these sharing features.

Nov 5, 2015 5:02 PM in response to KiltedTim

>> If you're not, then but out of this thread and go start your own. You're off topic.
Actually not - if you had read this thread, you would have seen some users (e.g. skwirl from May 28h) who have multiple devices on their own account as well as multiple users (OP). From a technical point of view, it doesn't matter - it's not intended behavior in either case. For those who are interested, take a look at Apple's documentation on iCloud and what it provides at the following links:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en#/mm2038548b
http://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en#/mmfc0efea4 Nowhere does Apple mention in its documentation that the call history across devices is shared. And nobody has ever pointed any documentation to substantiate this idea.

Nov 8, 2015 9:17 AM in response to JAta2

For other users who might not want to wade through the forum entries, I'm reposting the two links:


"For those who are interested, take a look at Apple's documentation on iCloud and what it provides at the following links:

http://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en#/mmfc0efea4

http://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en#/mm2038548b

Nowhere does Apple mention in its documentation that the call history across devices is shared. "

Nov 8, 2015 6:16 PM in response to Walter Rowe

Walter Rowe wrote:


My wife and I share an iTunes account, and why wouldn't we? We are one household. Account sharing was designed for this purpose. We too recently started seeing merged recent call lists. I have done all of the suggested changes. Turning off iCloud Drive seems to have stopped it. I later turned iCloud Drive back on and the problem has not returned.


For those insisting that this is "working as designed" and we "should not share an Apple ID" across our own devices, please stop. Apple would have advertised and documented this "feature" if this were part of the intended design. Apple is very thorough in this regard. For a long time Apple has extolled the advantages of sharing an Apple ID across devices. Saying we should NOT be sharing an Apple ID goes blatantly in the face of what Apple tells us we should be doing and why this is such a useful capability.

Here you are Walter, this is what Apple say.


Frequently asked questions about Apple ID - Apple Support


Can I share my Apple ID with someone else?


You shouldn't share your Apple ID with anyone else. It provides access to personal information including contacts, photos, device backups, and more. Sharing your Apple ID with someone else means you're giving them access to all your personal content, and it may lead to confusion about who actually owns the account.

To share photos, a calendar, iTunes purchases and more with someone else, try these sharing features.

Now go and argue with them,

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