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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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May 24, 2016 7:16 PM in response to Csound1

No need to have one ID or several, no need to alter your cloud settings, all that just makes matters worse, As I suggested long ago at the start of this thread you just need to go to settings/phone/calls on other devices//allow calls on/ then disable the check mark on the ones you don't wanna share with!. it's no big secret or difficult obscure setting. make sure you back out of this properly. sometimes there is a save or cancel option! not sure if theres one here though.

Jun 5, 2016 9:55 PM in response to garypaul

Re: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

This will solve the problem go to settings--Mail,contacts,calendars-- scroll down to the contacts section and click on the my info tab and change that to the correct iPhone contact number. If your phone is logged into the same iTunes iCloud sign in it defaulted to that main contact. I have a personal phone and business phone and my business phone was listed as my personal contact name under my info that is why all the calls would show in recent calls this will solve the problem.


I added a new myinfo contact with the number of my business on my business iPhone and log sharing has disappeared, Chances are that if you do the same for your multiple iPhones on the same iCloud account the call logging will stop. You will have to add a new contact for your self on each phone

but with the primary number of each particular phone.


If this indeed is the 'solution" we all each owe PenelopeDoloa 1$

Jun 8, 2016 4:41 AM in response to Fredy

Fredy wrote:

you just need to go to settings/phone/calls on other devices//allow calls on/ then disable the check mark on the ones you don't wanna share with!. it's no big secret or difficult obscure setting.

Unfortunately- not enough (or not always enough). Also Penelope's solution with "my contact No. setting" setting didn't work in my case.

For me disabling wrong phone numbers helped to get rid of call history syncing from iphone with ios9 to iphone with ios8, but vice versa. What helped to get rid of call history syncing from ios8 to ios9 was disabling Facetime's cellular calls. But- glad to hear that for some of us at least one "method" or their combinations finally works.


So, as colleague said

RexRox wrote:

it is not consistent therefore by definition is a bug

To be more exact- I'd like to remind for those who insist that it's

gail from maine wrote:

Perhaps a design omission or a design flaw, but it is not a "bug"

that subject what we call "bug" is "an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways." According wiki.

Regardless of our liking of disliking of "to be angry at the big bad company".

Jun 8, 2016 6:31 AM in response to Csound1

I don't mind things are called their real names. In discussion thread about particular question or problem it is useful to use correct definitions and names- it helps IMO. Othervise there can be situations when discussion participants cannot get to the root of the issue.

No need to take any "lessons" here or in any other forum thread if they are not interesting (I think).

Jun 8, 2016 6:08 PM in response to @lice

Not exactly sure what point you are making, however, your quoted Wiki definition of a bug: "that subject what we call "bug" is "an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways." makes a big presumption - that being that the shared call logs is an unexpected result...or is behaving in unintended ways.


At no time has Apple commented on whether the result that you are seeing was intended or not. All we have established is that a large number of people do not like the way it works. That does not make it a bug....


GB

Jun 26, 2016 1:43 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

The only way I was able to shut it off was to make inactive Facetime. I tried everything else. I am using 2 iPhones on the same user account. And when I say

I tried everything I mean EVERYTHING to prevent calls I make on one phone showing the same call history in the other phone..


Oh did I mention I tried everything? From what I have gathered there is something in Facetime that transfers call history into the other phone.. In my

limited test I turned on Facetime all the call history transferred over to my other phone. When I turned it off the call history did not transfer over.

One phone I use for business the other for personal. I went in and out of settings fore and aft.. did I mention.. the only thing that prevented call history

from transferring to the other phone was shutting off Facetime on my business phone.



Yes this is a bug in the iOS not a feature.

Call History showing up on another iPhone

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