Q: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

Champaggne wrote:

 

I dont know you guys are confusing....  To me the call logs should not be merged.  A marry couple should be allowed to have 2 numbers on one id.  Even if my sons number should be allowed on my id.  And this should not happen.  Why should a family have multiple ids????  Pay for apps 2 - 3 -4 times.  I am going to go to Verizon this weekend... and put my husbands new phone back on his own id.  I wanted them merged for many reason (the apple tv as well)  But that obvious cant be ....  Causes too much of a headache!  I managed to shut of each other phone calls an texts threw the settings.  But I do not like having my call log merged with his.  To me that is a bug.  But maybe it is Apple feature.  who knows.  But in order to fix it bottom line I am going to have to reset my husbands phone.  which upset me.

 

By the way when I set it up... it added all his contacts to mine as well....  annoying.

Family Sharing is how to pay once for apps, Contacts problems too. in fact everything that went wrong for you was because it was done wrong, Ypur choices

The only aspect that I can't address directly is the Apple TV.  We have one but I'm the only one that uses it.  I have a few thoughts but, because I might be incorrect, I'd rather not describe them and muddy the waters.

It appears that the Apple TV solution is that you would need to download the desired movie from iTunes (for free) and then you can play it on Apple TV.  See below.  Of course, it's not unreasonable that you may well find another solution.

All your family’s purchases, on all your family’s devices.

Everything’s better when shared, and sharing has never been easier. After you set up Family Sharing, all the eligible songs, albums, movies, TV shows, books, and apps ever purchased by family members are immediately available to everyone else in the family. And, of course, so are new purchases. The content appears automatically in the Purchased tab in iTunes, iBooks, or the App Store for each family member. Just select the family member whose collection you’d like to browse, then download and play the content you choose. Other family members can access your collection in the same way. If you want to keep some purchases private, you can choose to hide individual items.

yeah I mean we have ipads he can use for the Apple TV at this point I will just have to fix the way I set up his phone.  -

As for wrong choices -  I thought it help our family....  So I mean at the time I thought it was the right choice.  I guess now I have to fix it.  I was thinking about going to Apple to see if they can help with the situation... without resetting the phone.

NO assumption, that was my use case.  Go back and read.

Thanks I will look into Family sharing after I fix his phone.  I mean I never thought I would create such a problem  At first I couldnt even call him... it ring on my phone too.

Just take your time and it will work out.

Well, you don't have to reset the phone at all. You just need to sign out the Apple ID from these places:

Settings>iCloud

Settings>iTunes & App Store

Settings>Messages

Settings>FaceTime

Once you have signed out the shared ID, you can then sign in his personal ID instead, and you should be all set. When you sign the old ID out of iCloud, it will ask if you want to keep the Contacts on the device. Say "yes" to this question. Then when you sign on his ID to iCloud, it will ask if you want to Merge the contacts on the phone to his iCloud account. Click on Merge, and any Contacts that would be missing from his iCloud account would then be added to it.

Once you get his ID signed into all of those places, you can then look into setting up Family Sharing as Philly_Phan indicated above:

Apple - iCloud - Family Sharing

You can also set up a Genius Appointment at your local Apple Store and get help with getting this set up and configured so that you can share your purchases.

Best of luck,

GB

Thanks for jumping in.  I was afraid to add that info because I wasn't certain about the details.

Well, hopefully I've not confused the poster. I think a Genius Bar appointment might be their best bet!

GB

Yeah, that's probably best.  I wouldn't worry about confusing the poster as she quickly understood my reference to Family Sharing.  She made a mistake but she's competent.

okay so if I sign out and in with this id?  Essentially I will be separating the two accounts again correct??  His phone with his id.. and mine with his?  And not really having to reset his phone?  I would like to do it that way??  The pictures would stay. 

Yes I usually know my way around this apple stuff.  But I did a doozy here by signing his phone one my id.  I want to make sure I fix it right... and not loose his data.  HAHA...  I surely dont want to end up in divorce court over this   teehee

As far as the pictures go, it depends on how you have them set up. What iOS are you running on your phones? If you are using Photo Stream, then once the iCloud account is signed out of, the Photo Stream will go away. Anything in the Camera Roll would stay, and anything that was sync'd directly to the phone via iTunes on a computer would stay, but Photo Stream is tied to the iCloud account that is signed into iCloud.

If you wanted those photos on his phone, you can always send them to his phone from your phone using iCloud Photo Sharing:

iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support

You can also have shared albums with the Family Sharing account, so you should be able to get the photos back to his phone fairly easily via either one of those two mechanisms.

And yes, to your first question as well - by signing your ID out, and his ID back in, you are "re-assigning" the phone and all of the places where that phone is connected back to his ID, so the accounts would then be separated again.

Cheers,

GB

Follow Gail's instructions and the two phones will become separate.