Q: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

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For the usual reason.

Blue Fluorescent Dunes wrote:

 

I am, however, still curious to hear thoughts on this. I do not feel that I am sharing my ID as I am, indeed, only one person. Accordingly I'm recommended to use the same ID across my devices.  But my phones are, apparently, no longer distinct.  Why is my call list being attached to my ID, and not the individual phone, in the first place?

To be clear, there is no problem sharing an Apple ID among multiple devices used by the same person. In fact, it is RECOMMENDED. If you didn't you would not be able to share documents from apps (e.g., Pages, Numbers, and other apps that use iCloud), photos, contacts, notes and reminders. I have 4 iOS devices (2 iPhones, 2 iPads) that I use exclusively. My wife has an iPhone with a different iCloud ID. But my 4 devices share the same iCloud ID and my 2 Macs also share the same iCloud ID, and I'm quite happy with the way it works; they are seamlessly integrated through iCloud. I have not tried to prevent call lists from being shared, because all of my devices PLUS my 2 Macs have been used at one time or another to make and receive phone calls through the same iPhone. Because I like the fact that call lists are shared I have not tried to find out how to unshare them, although it should be possible by turning off certain Continuity features. When I have some time I will investigate this further, but it should be related to Settings/Phone - Calls on other devices. Turning this off should also uncouple the call list sharing. If it doesn't I would consider that a bug.

Apparently it doesn't. Some of the posters have found that the only thing that works is turning off iCloud Drive. Which is weird, but I would say that it is a bug. The people who have been posting about the issue can find no rhyme or reason for the co-mingling of call lists. It is not consistent between devices and they have discerned no pattern.

Personally, I don't get what the issue is (with the one exception of the poster who has the same ID signed onto his work phone and his personal phone). But I don't really look at my call lists. It just is of no importance to me. For those to whom it is important, it appears to be a major source of frustration and confusion. I suspect that things are not working the way they were intended....

Cheers,

GB

I just posted a long message about this very problem.  That it started to happen last May sounds about right.  The only suggestion given to me so far is to get separate accounts for each phone.  Why not have Apple simply return it to where it was. 

The problem with the answer above "it is working as intended" is that the poster fails to recognize one particular feature of iCloud;  Once connected to iCloud you are given a list of Apps, like calendars etc., which we can choose to share or not.  I like that feature.  Yet, there is no choice as it relates to my recent call list.  This is something foisted upon us by Apple.  Why not simply give us a switch to turn it on or off.  After having the same Apple ID for my Mac for 10 years and then one iPhone 7 years ago, and then a 2nd phone 5 years ago, followed quickly by an iPad 5 years ago, why should I suddenly have to set up different IDs for my various devices to avoid an unwanted feature I never had before?  To anyone with that answer I say, don't bother posting one.

To all of those who say we should not share an iCloud account I humbly ask you to either read the posts carefully or go take a long walk off a short pier.  One person with multiple devices should share an iCloud account.  It is a good thing.  We can CHOOSE which apps and other features we wish to be available to the various devices we own and WHICH TO NOT share.  The recent call lists have been forced upon us and many us find it a great inconvenience to share that.

GovtLawyer wrote:

Why not simply give us a switch to turn it on or off.  After having the same Apple ID for my Mac for 10 years and then one iPhone 7 years ago, and then a 2nd phone 5 years ago, followed quickly by an iPad 5 years ago, why should I suddenly have to set up different IDs for my various devices to avoid an unwanted feature I never had before?

Things change. No one here could say why Apple has changed it, if it's intentional or, if it is, why they don't give you the option to turn it off. What you can do is submit all this feedback to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

You are absolutely correct - it is a great idea.  Very valuable.  The only problem I and other poster's have is that we cannot choose to turn the feature on or off.  I can share photos or not!  I can share contacts or not!  I can share notes or not!  I MUST share my recent calls!!!!  Why does that make sense?  Also, to those who like the feature I ask you if you would still like it if you made and received 40 calls on your business phone only to discover that your personal phone, on which you may get 2 or 3 a day, had them as well? 

Hmmm, lets see who it was who called me earlier and I let it ring.  Oh, which one of the 40 calls on my phone was it? 

GovtLawyer wrote:

 

To all of those who say we should not share an iCloud account I humbly ask you to either read the posts carefully or go take a long walk off a short pier.  One person with multiple devices should share an iCloud account.

Your response is out of context. When we have stated that you should not share an iCloud account, we are talking about sharing an iCloud account (i.e., between two or more users). That is what you should not do. No one has suggested at any point that you should not use the same iCloud account over multiple devices if you are the one an only person using that iCloud account.... By definition, "share" means to "use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others". Another or others means people, not devices....

GB

GovtLawyer wrote:

 

To all of those who say we should not share an iCloud account I humbly ask you to either read the posts carefully or go take a long walk off a short pier.  One person with multiple devices should share an iCloud account.  It is a good thing.  We can CHOOSE which apps and other features we wish to be available to the various devices we own and WHICH TO NOT share.  The recent call lists have been forced upon us and many us find it a great inconvenience to share that.

Id you actually bother to read the original post in this thread? If YOU have multiple devices, then you're in the wrong place. This thread has NOTHING to do with your issue.

Wow this is a long thread with some really angry people who get annoyed easily.   

Here is my deal.   I have two iPhones, both mine.  One is a work phone for my business and I leave it at home most of the time.   FaceTime is turned off on this phone,  Sharing is turned off, iCloud drive is turned off.  I don't have family sharing turned on any of my devices.  I also have an iPhone thats my personal phone and keep it with me all day.   Just starting yesterday, after no updates of any kind, my recent calls lists for both phones have synced.  

I don't have handoff turned on.   nothing changed on either phone. 

I like to keep my calls list separate because I keep track of who calls my business line and don't want them mixed in with my personal phone. 

I should not have to get a separate Apple ID for each phone.  That means another email, another log in and that is just crazy talk.   It's never done this before and frankly I've been using apple iPhone products for several years and recently they have more bugs than I care for.   Never used to have issues like this and others.   There is absolutely no reason why two iPhones with two phone numbers that have zero SHARING set up, should be sharing a call log.   Apple needs to stop ramming stuff down our throats.   Whenever I do an update now, I have to go through all my settings to make sure none of them were switched on or off during an update,  like always having bluetooth turned on after updates.    updates shouldn't change anyones settings period. 

DanNJ73 wrote:

 

I like to keep my calls list separate because I keep track of who calls my business line and don't want them mixed in with my personal phone.

I should not have to get a separate Apple ID for each phone.

No one here can do anything to change this. Submit your feedback to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I could have written this myself.  Actually, I did write something almost identical.  Makes no sense whatsoever.  I see where I had a call on my personal phone and I have to wade through all of my business calls to figure out who it was. 

Another really galling thing about this is that iCloud and Apple Sharing and Handoff, etc, all have switches which can turn the feature on or off.  I can choose which apps to use or not.  Why this silly feature was added and cannot be turned off is beyond me.

Totally agree with GovtLawyer and DanNJ73.  I love all of my apple products but this was not advertised as a new feature and it makes no sense to have a separate appleID for business and personal use.  The attitude and condescension by some of the respondents on this thread is crazy.  This thread should be about 1/8 the length sans the ridiculous unhelpful replies.

Hi everyone!

After a real fight with my wife today I really worked on the problem (including reading this thread for half an hour in vain) and apparently found the solution by myself.

We share one apple ID, one iCloud account, apple watches and numerous iPads on same account..

Latest iOS installed

How I got rid of the shared recent calls log problem:

Settings/Phone/Calls on other Devices

in my case this feature was already turned OFF!

I turned it ON and a list of all my devices linked to my apple ID appeared (including my wife's phone)

then I switched off(green button to grey) ALL devices one by one and finally switched Calls on other devices back to OFF!

Did the same on my wife's iphone.

And it worked!

Run several "tests" on both phones - it works!

Good luck to everyone.