why are my missed calls showing on another iphone

Find My iPhone works across all iCloud accounts that are part of Family Sharing. Alternatively, you can use the Find my Friends app, and include people who are not linked by Family Sharing. See: Family Sharing - Apple Support

Each Apple ID gets its own 5 GB, so you may not need to pay extra with separate iCloud IDs. And you can have a different Apple ID for apps and purchases from your iCloud ID, so you don't need to change that. Or you can have a "master" Apple ID for purchases that the individual family members can access. You can also optionally set a requirement that you approve any purchases by family members.

See: Family Sharing - Apple Support

You don't even need to do that if you don't want to. It's easy enough to use one ID for iCloud and a different ID for the app and itunes stores.

Sharing one ID is insecure. Especially with kids involved.

(when managing the existence in Appleworld was simple, dare I say, "It Just Worked."

And passwords used to be safe at 4 characters. Bread used to be a nickel a loaf.

Things change.

Systems get more complex. More bad guys out there with more things to compromise and steal from you.

Apple IDs have evolved, for good or bad, into personal identifiers, like a phone number. Sharing them, while absolutely possible, is neither supported or advocated.

You obviously are young in the Apple universe. If you don't know what "iTools ... free for life" means, then you have no clue what we family leaders have been managing for 10 years.

If you still begrudge a decision made by Apple almost 20 years ago... not sure what to offer.

Find a better system and use it.

Do you use iCloud for your family? If so, how long have you used it?

I have called Apple Support (multiple times) and they haven't "explicitly recommends against sharing an ID for iCloud". They have suggestions to try but have never said I can't do it this way.

Also during the multiple calls, they have been unable to help me set up Family Share! I have always loved apple for the ease of use of products/services. This is frustrating.

I too suddenly started having this issue on my phone today. I call my wife, she doesn't pick up, a missed call from me shows up on my phone! I did not update or sync or change any setting today on my phone or my wife's. I also share my AppleID with all my family members for iCloud also. All my settings are set as suggested here.

I guess it's Apple's way of pushing 'Family Sharing...' on consumers. Doesn't look like there is a choice...I just read about 'Family Sharing' and I am convinced. Looks like it has it's advantages. Even though I have to go thru the pain of setting up all the phones, it seems to be worth it. I'll give it a try. I hope I don't lose any default family sharing that I depend on now. Luckily I don't use two phone personally like Builder1.

But this sudden change in behavior (which worked for years as everyone says here) is really annoying! I hope there is some setting somewhere that prevents this from happening.

moneymajak wrote:

But this sudden change in behavior (which worked for years as everyone says here) is really annoying! I hope there is some setting somewhere that prevents this from happening.

Absolutely. MS-DOS worked great for years and the change to Windows is really annoying.

| We have 4 iphones and 3 are having this issue.

I just noticed that my wife's phone and my phone is doing the same thing.

I think comments saying to split the apple IDs are unhelpful, if 4 iphones are setup with the same ID, but only 3 are sharing call logs, then that's a strong case that there is some bug. Either they should all be sharing the calls and its a feature, or this sharing is behavior and none of them should be sharing recent call entries.

I have a similar issue. My 6 and my ipad mini sync the recent call logs even if I leave the ipad at home and make a call when off my wifi and out of my house. BUT my wife has an identical 6 and mini running the same 8.4 release as me and hers will not do this. We have tried to get it to work on hers, and it simply won't. Any ideas how to make this work? again, not wanting calls on one phone to show on the other, but calls to/from a phone to show on its associated ipad.

For the record I was still using an Ipad 2 at the end of May when this first popped up on my facetime logs. when I restored my backup to the new mini it has kept updating call logs almost instantly.

and no we do NOT share apple IDs between us, each have our own. I use my id on my phone and my ipad, she uses her id on her phone and ipad. Family share is on since both kids also have 2 apple devices each(and their own ids).

I Have ALL the same problem plus one more; now someone calls someone in my group, random people outside my group show it on their phone as a missed call. I've started getting calls from random people telling me they missed a call from me. Wonder if they're getting my texts too. This seems to be a security or privacy issue Apple needs to address.

Thanks for sharing. Let's try it!

By the way, took me 5 mins to figure it out for what you said. iPhone don't use the word Mobile, but Cellular! Thanks!

Settings->Cellular->(Use cellular data for: Phone)->OFF

If this method is not working, then I will have to create 4 separate iCloud accounts for each device per Lawrence Finch mentioned.

Thanks for your advise.

Although Apple may explicitly recommend things on the back-channels of a website somewhere there are certain things that make using the phone easier. Sharing an AppleID across many devices (especially for one user) is one of these. Therefore, explaining why something that just started happening causing user frustration is ok by saying "stop doing that" is not a great response. There is absolutely no reason why missed call logs that had previously been device specific must now show up everywhere. Bugs like this should be fixed instead of basically saying "you're doing it wrong for the past 8 years" when it's been working perfectly well. Maybe try helping instead of just saying "user error".

Completely agree with you Builder1. This and other recent update issues have wasted so much of my time and there's no support from Apple to fix it, just fanboys telling us why we should put up with it. I'm getting sick and tired of apple creating admin nightmares for me (I have to sort my wife's kit out too so it's double the hassle). I don't see any meaningful functional improvements to my digital life from Apple just a few low value graphics tweaks and lots of arrogant updates that assume we're all fanboys and have nothing better to do with our lives than **** around on the settings section of our Apple kit. Apple wake up you're fast becoming the PC world that I left in 2005.

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ROMZ!1 wrote:

Turn Off Icloud Drive - Problem solved

Which is fine if you don't use it for anything else. But I have a couple of dozen files on iCloud Drive that I share between 2 computers and 3 iOS devices so I can update them wherever and whenever I want.