Call History showing up on another iPhone

skiku wrote:

IM also fed up with moralizing tone of some users Thendil has a point. Its a technical questions not phylosophy

I like your post better before you edited it. 😉 But, I agree, users, including Thendil, seem to take this far too seriously.

No one here is advocating that you use two separate Apple IDs for your own devices and your own use.

Apple has long discouraged two different people sharing the same Apple ID, which has become more and more chaotic as the technology to make a single user's experience between their devices and computers as seamless as possible.

There is no question that for those people who have a single Apple ID, but who use two different devices for two separate purposes, the intermingling of call lists is problematic to say the least. This is something that we have encouraged time and time again to send Feedback to Apple about. Only they can change the way the system currently works: Apple - Feedback

In the meantime, if you decide to have two or three or 500 people all use the same Apple ID, then you will get no sympathy from anyone here. There are a myriad of ways for people with separate Apple IDs to share those things they wish to share, but having the same ID for two entirely different people is simply asking for trouble.

Cheers,

GB

skiku wrote:

IM also fed up with moralizing tone of some users Thendil has a point. Its a technical questions not phylosophy

Philosophy not Phylosophy

We don't share an Apple ID. I've put my wife's phone on my Apple ID. There's a difference here.

I don't want to get into an argument but I do have difficulty with the supposed reasons for Recents being shared with Mrs W's phone and the suggestion that if her phone is on my ID I'm some kind of security risk. Mrs W doesn't want an Apple ID or to access iTunes. She's quite content to use a selection of my Apps and for me to buy those that she specifically wants. She's happy to let me update her phone and sort any of the technical glitches that Apple regularly throws at us. She doesn't know my Apple ID password and understands why that is. We have Dropbox to share documents and photos. This isn't me being patronising, it's how she wants it.... in fact she'd be thoroughly hacked off to be told that the only way she can have an iPhone is to have and manage her own Apple ID and iTunes account.

If this was some kind of security enhancement in iOS9 then it would apply to a whole lot of other stuff as well... but it doesn't... sharing Recents appears to be the only specific thing that can't now be switched off through iCloud settings.

I appreciate this isn't how Apple want us to use our iPhones. This isn't a rant... I've had iPhones since the 3G and I'm used to Apple telling us how we should use our devices. You either buy into it or you go elsewhere.

A solution:

I haven't checked this out fully yet, but even with iCloud Drive switched off on both iPhones, we've started to sync our Recents again, apparently from iOS9.3. Knowing how carefully iOS9.3 was tested before release (not) this may be temporary. The workaround I'm using is to disable Facetime on Mrs W's iPhone and remove it from the menu using Restrictions. She's not interested in Facetime, so this works for us, but may not be attractive to everyone.

You can do whatever you please with your phone.

Here is what solved it for me (I had already tried many of the suggestions of this thread with no improvement):

Background info: Yes, 3 other members of my family were logged into my iCloud account on their devices but were using their own Apple ID's for Messages, FaceTime, etc. However, the call log duplication problem only recently cropped up and was not an issue before. I also noticed that when a family member changed a ringtone on their phone, it changed on mine, so.....

I signed up for Family Sharing, added each family member using their Apple ID email address, logged each one of them out of iCloud on their iPhones, then logged them back in using their own Apple ID's, accepted Family Sharing invitations from each phone. Seems to be working fine now with very few hitches and call logs immediately corrected themselves (including old calls). It looks like all the reasons we were using the same Apple ID for iCloud have been covered and work fine using Family Sharing. Hopefully that holds true as I put it through more testing.

Apple iPhone go to SETTINGS >>>>>> scroll down to Phone...there you would see under CALLS, calls on other devices. Switch that OFF So even if you are using / sharing icloud with your family, the call details will not reflect on other phone. Also under SETTINGS>>>>>GENERAL>>>>>HANDSOFF & SUGGESTED APPS.....TURN OFF handsoff. This should help.

Hi

This is because you are sharing the same apple ID with your wifi she needs her own apple ID

All apple devices that use same apple ID will get the same infomation

When on the same WiFi at home .

Cheers

Brian

My husband and I have been sharing the same ID for 4 years. This just started happening! It is driving us nuts! (the calls showing up) I wish someone could figure out why this is happening, there has to be a technical answer, and how to reset the phones so it doesn't continue.

aychray wrote:

My husband and I have been sharing the same ID for 4 years. This just started happening! It is driving us nuts! (the calls showing up) I wish someone could figure out why this is happening, there has to be a technical answer, and how to reset the phones so it doesn't continue.

The answer is right in this very thread. It is happening because you are sharing an ID, and you likely did an iOS update to 9.x recently which kicked in this feature (yes, a feature ... those who use one ID actually want their history replicated on their devices, except those who use multiple devices for different purposes, i.e. work and personal).

The solution is so simple, get a 2nd ID and move on, you can still share everything you need to with your husband through Family Sharing. Besides, if you're sharing an ID you're probably getting more than just shared call history, like iMessages (unless you've jumped through hoops to avoid that issue, which has the same correct solution -- use separate IDs).

On one of the phones: open the Settings App, go to iCloud, set "iCloud Drive" to Off. It'll stop. It's a bug that somehow is sharing phone call info across phones via iCloud Drive. Worked for me instantly, but you won't be able to use iCloud drive on your phone (no biggie unless you routinely edit iCloud docs on your phone) There is no requirement that you use a separate ID per device. Those who claim so do not understand how the apple ecosystem works.

If iCloud Drive is an absolute must on both phones then you *can* create a new separate apple ID, then link it to your spouse's or vice versa, but you lose a lot of functionality (particularly: Photo stream, img. quality and meta data) and add a lot of hassle. Either way you lose something until the bug is fixed, but at least for me iCloud drive is a smaller feature to sacrifice while they fix this.

Thendil wrote:

There is no requirement that you use a separate ID per device. Those who claim so do not understand how the apple ecosystem works.

So neutering iCloud's capabilities instead of following Apple's own recommendation to not share IDs across users makes you understand Apple's ecosystem better? Riiiiiiight ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I myself had this issue and I simply opened [Settings / Phone / Calls on other Devices and then I clicked When Nearby, That opened a list on devices and enabled and disabled as I choose and it worked! Doing more then that I suspect can cause other issues! So remember any further steps you may take just in case you need to undo them 🙂

Just for the record I would like to say I do not agree with this solution, Sorry Thndil

Please see below copied from my previous post, its really so much simpler. unless theres something going on that's over my head. which I doubt but is always possible! 🙂

I myself had this issue and I simply opened [Settings / Phone / Calls on other Devices and then I clicked When Nearby, That opened a list on devices and enabled and disabled as I choose and it worked! Doing more then that I suspect can cause other issues! So remember any further steps you may take just in case you need to undo them 🙂

Maybe it don't work for all but it works for me!

Fred

I add a confirmation of Bearcat2005 solution. With shared ID, my phone calls just now started showing up on my wife's phone and vice versa. I had FaceTime on with only my number listed, and she had it off altogether. I turned my FaceTime off (and restarted the phone) and the problem is fixed.