Call History showing up on another iPhone

It is so easy to attribute everything to a dead man. It is to desecration to do so, however. And you are also wrong. Family Sharing and the idea that Apple IDs are personal was part of Mr. Jobs' grand design for iOS. The normal life cycle of product features starts years before they are released.

Your recent calls appear on another phone because you are not using it the way it was designed to work by Steve Jobs. Apple IDs are not intended to be shared, and never were. It wasn't a problem when all an Apple ID was for was to buy music, videos and apps. But once the continuity features (spec'd by Steve Jobs) were added it became important to not share Apple IDs or unpleasant consequences would result. As you have discovered. But Mr. Jobs anticipated this, and solved it by adding Family Sharing. So rather than attributing your issue to the demise of Mr. Jobs you might try using your phones the way Mr. Jobs intended them to be used.

And if you don't want to use Family Sharing you should still get separate Apple IDs for each user. If you want to share music, videos and apps, log in to the iTunes and App Stores with the same ID (which is allowed) but still use different Apple IDs for the phone itself.

777lawless777 wrote:

i have this problem and update 8.4 is years ago. it's a pain in the butt that apple is ignoring clearly since this issue is still alive in 2017. i have FaceTime turned off. we don't use the iCloud in spite of how hard apple keeps pushing it on us. we don't have hand off or family share turned on nor do we share a wi fi connection as my mom lives more than 200 miles away from me. we have cellular data turned off. so, can i hear a solution that actually addresses the problem?

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If you are not using iCloud at all, i.e. none of you are actually signed into iCloud, then the behavior you are reporting is simply not possible.

That's like saying that when you change the channel on the TV in your living room, the channel changes on your mother's TV 200 miles away when there is no physical connection between the two.

There are 93 pages in this 3 year old thread, so it isn't clear what response you are referring to. Perhaps if you explain your question better someone can answer it. Better yet, post a new question in the forum.

Mr Finch,

If I create new apple id for my kids and husband, you suggest that I can do this and still share music? And what about photos when I go to sync with my desktop mac... i won't have issues there? I am nervous to take the step on what consequences for separating IDs. However, this recent calls thing drives me/husband nuts. The facetime fix is not working.

How many separate apple IDs are allowed for my desktop? Any issues there on authentication of devices? Big family, LOTs of devices.

Michelle

ThamerE wrote:

To resolve this problem and I did

You need to disable the following option

contracts Found in Apps

The problem will disappear

Did you bother to read any of this thread? No, disabling contacts found in apps will not resolve the issue.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Ah, Idris; you missed the point of the post. It was not intended to convey a solution; it's sole purpose was to promote the poster's twitter presence.

Oh, no, I caught that. Reported it. I figured our Hosts would delete the whole thing.

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Before IOS 11.0.1 two phones Shared Apple ID for our calendars & different ID for iMessage & Face time. With new IOS this isn’t allowed and two phones mirriored. Turned off ID and assigned just phone numbers for face time & iMessage. Still didn’t solve the issue. What’s going on .. we need to share calendars but not our iMessaging

Since I upgraded my Apple IPhone S

on Monday my husbands new Note 8 blocks my calls. They go right to voice mail and show up in his blocked calls. I am in his contact list and we have unblocked my number, reset contacts but I can’t make a direct call to him.

Re: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

There is no need to share an ID to share calendars.

iCloud: Share a calendar with others

Don't share an iCloud account. They are not intended to be shared.

I'm getting the same thing. My wife's call log is appearing on my iphone and on an old iphone 4S we have that is signed into icloud. I have asked my wife to reboot her phone to see if it clears things up.

FYI we share icloud because it allows us to have a synchronized calendar, "find my iphone" and contacts under the same account. But this **** is weird. If I find anything, I'll share it here.

Happened to me today as well, came looking to see if it was a one-off or something else. I'd say there is some shenanigans in the cloud. I had calls appear from Oct 2014 -- six months ago. Really?

I'm facing the same issue since the last couple of days. I've never faced this problem before. iCloud should not be syncing recent calls amongst iPhones in the same iCloud account. Any solution?

John The Silent Musician wrote:

FYI we share icloud because it allows us to have a synchronized calendar, "find my iphone" and contacts under the same account. But this **** is weird. If I find anything, I'll share it here.

It is not weird. It is working as it is meant to. iDevices that share the same Apple/iCloud ID will have content synched amongst the devices, and will "ring" once a call is received if the Handoff/Continuity feature is enabled and therefore you will see calls on the log of both phones. Handoff will only work if the two devices are on the same Wifi network.

If you want to "synch" calendars, share a calendar only or use the Family share feature:

Family Sharing - Apple Support