Call History showing up on another iPhone

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

barneyman wrote:

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...

See my response to "John the Silent Musician".

Here's the thing, this has been happening all week regardless of the fact that I wasn't on wifi during my drive home from work, and my wife (and her iphone) are on the other side of the country, so we haven't been on the same wifi network since Sunday.

Use family share and see if that solves the problem. In any case, you should not both be using the same Apple ID/iCloud account.

Hi Apple ID are not for sharing change 1 Apple ID Cheers Brian

I Am also experiencing this with two iPhones sharing an iCloud account. The strange part as others have stated is that it just started last week. I have disabled handoff, made sure face time is set to receive only with the phone number assigned to the individual iphone and examined every other setting. I and I think others are wondering why this started happening suddenly out of the blue. If someone with Apple could shed some insite that would be helpful. And yes I get it, don't share an iCloud account.😁

Scott Spencer1 wrote:

If someone with Apple could shed some insite that would be helpful. 😁

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I noticed this yesterday for the first time. I have two phones and the only thing shared is contact list. The copied recent call list only seem to go one way.

Same thing is happening with me and my daughters iPhone 4s. Our calls are randomly showing up in each others recent list. Its also happening when we are nowhere near each other but not happening all the time either. I share the ID with all 4 of my kids and its only happening on one phone. Very weird how it just started a few days ago.

Any thought to what version IOS each iPhone is running? My wife's iPhone (the one from which we're all get her call log) is the only device not updated to version 8.3. I have asked her to update her iPhone to see if it clears this up. I'm waiting for her to do it, and will let you know if this changes everything.

What versions is everyone else here on?

All phones on 8.3. I am also running a beta version of Yosemite, and am not sure what role that might play in all of this. I deleted the three files in ~/Library/Application Support/CallHistoryDB after cleaning out the call logs on both devices, and haven't seen the problem recur. But I'm not declaring this fixed just yet.

Apple does some strange things with iCloud syncing. For example, the "Previous Recipients" list in Mail is synced to all machines signed in to the same iCloud account, and it does so unintuitively through Contacts. This has resulted in personal addresses present in that list on my work machine, and vice-versa. I have confirmed this is with a senior Apple support person on the phone, so this is not me speculating. In other words, Apple does this intentionally for reasons that don't make much sense when there is a check box to sync Mail (which was never enabled on my machines).

Given that the calls are showing up on multiple devices -- and specifically, reappearing even after deletion -- leads me to believe that Apple is mucking with something in the code on iCloud. Why else would this issue suddenly be reported by a couple dozen people starting on 22 May and not before?

iCloud is great for syncing things like calendar entries and Contacts. Not so much when it's "over-sharing" data. And if you think the answer is "use a separate iCloud account", then why would they put an option to share Keychain? Sharing between people isn't necessarily a good idea for that reason alone, but one account used by the same person with multiple devices is why it's there.

I chatted with an Apple rep on Monday who declared this should not be happening!!!! So was advised to turn off Facetime on each phone and restart them. Did that and it worked for 3 days. Today my wife's calls just showed up in my call log. What is going on here?????

Well folks, I am mystified as everyone else, as this started happening to me once I arrived today in the US. I have a secondary iPhone 4S that I only use in the States on ATT. My other normal phone I use with multiple SIMs and in the US also use it with an ATT SIM. Both are on the same Apple ID. As Scott has said that Apple said this should not be happening, perhaps there is a bug on iCloud? This is the first time this has happened in over 4 years of using multiple iPhones.

I don't think it's a bug. I only have one phone using my iCloud account, but looking at both my iMac and MBA, I can see all calls made and received by by phone whenever it's in proximity to the Mac in question. I would fully expect the call history on a phone using the same account to reflect the same thing.

Tim:

I thought the same as you, but this does not happen with my Mac, or with the iPad. It only happens with the two phones. This afternoon I was out on the street with the 6 and made two calls and when I got back home I looked at the 4S and found on the phone numbers of the calls I had made on the 6 on the log of the 4S, time stamped and all. The only time that they before today that they would appear on either phone (and on the Mac and iPad) was when a call would come in and all devices would ring because of continuity/handoff.

It really does not bother me to have the "replicated" log on both phones; actually, it is somewhat convenient. I can see why it would bother some people. The only way of avoiding this is, as has been stated, not to share the Apple ID.