Q: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

Go to Settings/General/Reset - Erase all content and settings. You will need your wife's iCloud password to turn off Activation Lock.

I had the same problem: 2 iPhones (2 different numbers, 2 different carriers), one for business, and both sharing the same Apple ID (why not?). I think that this issue (having the recent calls list syncing on both iPhones) can be fixed turning the "iPhone Cellular Calls" on FaceTime setting off (Settings -> FaceTime -> iPhone Cellular Calls). For me, it solved the problem.

Sorry if this is in the new discussion already, I tried to go to the branch and was denied access.

I have the same behavior, and it makes no sense.  It does not change for me after defeating the hand-off insidiousness.  Apple is secretly backing up and sharing this data in a way that is not transparent.  This occurs for me with all hand-off & facetime features turned off, while on separate networks.  I have a TON of apple devices, many of which serve as Netflix TVs or audio platforms.

If you're about to say unique icloud accounts, please don't.  There are many reasons to have this arrangement, and it shouldn't be a situation where users need to reconfigure and manage a household of accounts for people to have useful phone behavior.  I do enough sys admin work as it is, I do not need to add more accounts to the mix.

At this point, it's frustrating.  I've overcome all of the ringing on other devices, but can't get call logs to be separate.  Why, exactly, do I need Apple to be privy to all of my families calling behavior?  That's what's happening.  Somewhere all of this data is being sent up to a server and downloaded to other devices.  Not something I asked for and not something I want.

How do we shut that off?  If anyone has figured this out, please let me know.  I'm testing turning off iCloud storage right now and will report back if I get any traction.

-Michael

If you want use it in a manner not recommended that is up to you, there are consequences, as you have seen. You'll need to live with them. If it bothers you too much you'll need to use a different pair of phones, Androids maybe?

Not helpful, so why are you wasting our time?

On a positive note, if you turn off iCloud syncing it fixes it.  Now I'm curious which syncing item they are sneaking this under or if it's not covered by any of the select-able options.

Squidaped wrote:

 

Not helpful, so why are you wasting our time?

Our?

You mean your time, our is plural, thankfully you are not.

Duo what ever you want.

Squidaped wrote:

 

On a positive note, if you turn off iCloud syncing it fixes it.  Now I'm curious which syncing item they are sneaking this under or if it's not covered by any of the select-able options.

Oh good, a solution. Well done.

Squidaped wrote:

 

Now I'm curious which syncing item they are sneaking this under or if it's not covered by any of the select-able options.

Because it's an underlying part of how Apple IDs work. It's the way they are supposed to work. Until Apple decides they should work differently, this is the way things are. Not everything in life is user-selectable.

Submit your feedback to Apple requesting something different here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Are you saying that you have tested deselecting everything but keeping icloud syncing on?  Or that you don't know?

Squidaped wrote:

 

Not helpful, so why are you wasting our time?

Would you prefer that he lie to you?

Joewalsh91 wrote:

 

Is it too hard to understand that it wasn't broke until handoff was created? If ID's aren't meant to be shared why does Apple allow it? Don't tell people what to do when you don't know the answer.

Apple allows you to drop your phone in the toilet but they recommend against it.  It's the same thing with sharing Apple IDs.

Sorry, but where is Apple recommending against one icloud-account with different devices. This is exactly for what icloud is, syncing over devices.

That isn't what Philly_Phan was referring to. Using the same Apple/iCloud ID on multiple devices is fine as long as all of those devices belong to one person. It works swimmingly with my Mac, iPhone 4, iPhone 5s, and iPad. But I don't share an Apple ID with my husband. He has his own Apple ID and is signed onto his own iCloud account on his multiple Macs and his iPhone.

Entirely different things....

GB

But exactly this icloud over different devices from one person does this (unwanted, buggy) call list sync. And no one should say, that it is wanted in the current way: Syncing of the list only one way, only sometimes, without a Switch to deactivate it.

Someony wrote a few wweks ago, that this sync does not happen anymore / this bug is fixed, with one of the iOS9 betas. Can someone confirm this?