Q: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

Hi

This is because you are sharing your apple ID they are only for one person

Your wife needs her own apple ID .

All apple devices with same ID get the same infomation .

Cheers

Brian

Thank you so much GovtLawyer.  This has finally solved the UNBELIEVABLY IRRITATING problem of recent call sharing between my business and my personal iPhones.  I tried every solution on this tread, and then some others from elsewhere to no avail.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Also, to all the "High Level" posters who mindlessly chant "Stop sharing an ID", and worse, put people down:  Thanks for wasting space on this forum.  You were WRONG. And you caused harm by: a) Stating a FALSE policy.  b) Confusing and dissuading customers from finding a solution. You were WRONG.  And you know who you are.  Please consider the harm you do when you mindlessly repeat non-help in the face of something that clearly was and is a problem (but finally there's acknowledgment that said problem exists and will be addressed.)

Sharing ID's is perfectly acceptable and in some cases required.  Why in the world would I use different Apple IDs on phones and devices THAT I OWN?  I wonder how extensive a use of media sharing and Apple TVs scenarios have you "Don't share an ID" bots even bothered with.  I guess you folk got all your points answering stuff like "Hold down the home and sleep/wake buttons at the same time to take a screenshot! Have a nice day".  Obviously the 'Level" system  on these forums has lost most if not all of it's credibility, which is a shame for those people with high level scores who actually earned it by earnestly helping people.

Thendil wrote:

 

I guess you folk got all your points answering stuff like "Hold down the home and sleep/wake buttons at the same time to take a screenshot! Have a nice day".  Obviously the 'Level" system  on these forums has lost most if not all of it's credibility, which is a shame for those people with high level scores who actually earned it by earnestly helping people.

People can only get points if the original poster in a thread awards them because they believe that the post has helped them.

Like you, we are also entitled to have our own opinions about what is the correct way to proceed on a particular issue. You are free to ignore or disagree with it. However, the histrionics about causing "harm" are just a tad over the top. Take a deep breath and calm down.

The bottom line is that no one here can change what Apple has done. We can (and have) provide suggestions that work under certain circumstances (the most successful being to turn off iCloud Drive). We can suggest that Apple appears to have intended an Apple ID to be used by one person and that sharing them can lead to a number of unwanted consequences. And we can suggest that, if you don't like what Apple has done, submit feedback. I don't actually see that any higher level people have suggested that an individual have multiple IDs, unless that is the only way you can find to stop sharing recent calls and that is an issue that is so important to you that nothing else will do.

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

Re-reading my post I realized that while I thanked GovtLawyer for the solution he found I never mentioned the actual solution to end recent call sharing between phones:

Open Settings -> iCloud.  Turn iCloud Drive Off.

That's it.  And after fiddling with it for an afternoon, I found you only need to turn it off on one phone sharing an ID if you have two.  (If you more have more than two, just a guess but you'll probably have to turn off iCloud Drive on all but 1 phone)

Hope this helps some people avoid digging around too much in the thread to find an actual solution.

As has already been pointed out you are free to do as you please.

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.