why are my missed calls showing on another iphone

stuffdoggg wrote:

I do know that it is not secure or convenient having my contact and credit card information stored 7 times one for each seperate apple ID.

As I already explained, and you chose to ignore, with Family Sharing ONLY ONE ACCOUNT HAS A CREDIT CARD ATTACHED. The other accounts in the family share plan use that credit card for purchases.

But, as I see your mind is made up, I will no longer confuse you with facts. You're on your own; use your phones any way you want to, and live with the consequences.

I Know there is no toggle for call history , that's the bug, it would resolve many peoples issue, especially those on here that are indeed individuals with several devices, meaning no other family member or iCloud account involved and thus do not need familyshare or such.

stuffdoggg wrote:

I Know there is no toggle for call history , that's the bug, it would resolve many peoples issue,

It would only be a bug if it's unintentional on Apple's part. There's no clear evidence that is the case. Therefore, one of the only reason Apple would have to change the way it works is if a sufficiently large number of people made that request. Even then, Apple might do as Apple is known to do and keep on with the way they think is best.

Use the link Csound1 provided to submit your feedback.

my reply posted before I read your explanation of how the credit card is link inked to only one account , fair enough, but still having to admin 7 separate iCloud acconts and passwords etc. Just to properly set up familyshare ( which I think is actually impossible because family share only allows 5 users) is a huge headache, especially when adding simple toggle functions to items undesired to share would solve all the issues.

im confused by your response here csound1, The consensus by many here is that Apple has this all figured out and by properly configuring family share is the proper resolution to the issue, but with 7 devices familyshare can not be the solution as it only allows 5 devices. Now my only option is to do what has been repeatedly been ill advised , and have several devices sharing the same iCloud account.

stuffdoggg wrote:

im confused by your response here csound1, The consensus by many here is that Apple has this all figured out and by properly configuring family share is the proper resolution to the issue, but with 7 devices familyshare can not be the solution as it only allows 5 devices. Now my only option is to do what has been repeatedly been ill advised , and have several devices sharing the same iCloud account.

Incorrect, it allows 5 users, not devices.

I hate to beat a dead horse and drag on this conversation, but...

I have a family of 5 and we all share a icloud account (WAIT before telling me to use Family share). When i call child A and they don't answer, all 3 get the a "missed call from Mommy" alert. So they each think there is an emergency & call me back...Or a friend of myself & husband calls him and he misses the call, I also get the missed call alert, so I assume they are calling me...You get the point.

I appreciate the family share thing BUT,

1) we have over 40k+ songs in music and 100s of playlists, much of which we have uploaded to our icloud account - with family share ONLY THE MAIN PERSON CAN SEE THAT MUSIC & PLAY LISTS (I know you can share playlists, but seriously). We ALL listen to this music and have group music stuff, so the access is needed...

2) Both parents need to see ALL THE CALENDARS at the same time to make sure our kids are where they need to be. And kids need to see parent's calendar so they don't promise to be somewhere when they don;t have a parent available to drive them

3) there are times when we will monitor our children's texting by getting their texts sent to our computers (Big Brother ish? yes, but I do pay the bill!)

4) At times, i cannot reach a child, so I will text their friend, which ARE IN THE SHARED CONTACTS across phones. With family share, I lose access to their contacts.

It is my understanding (and maybe I am wrong) that the 4 issues above are not available with Family sharing. Since I pay for their phones, and am a caring (yet, rightfully so in this crazy day & age, stalking) parent, I do not want them on their own accounts...yet I also do not need them to freak out when they get 10 of my work related missed calls while they are in school....

So, is my case one that Family sharing should work? nope. so then why can't apple just have an option to TURN OFF missed call sharing (and yes, I have tried almost ALL options in the past 9 pages of replies)...I don't mind a shared call log, but the missed call alert is not needed - i can turn off shared texting, I don't see why you can't turn off shared calling.

Thank you.

dynesomite wrote:

(and yes, I have tried almost ALL options in the past 9 pages of replies)

That begs the question: which ones didn't you try? The one that people seem to have the most success with is disabling iCloud drive. Did you try that one?

I appreciate your time to be snarky to me. I have tried family sharing multiple times and if you can show me where I am wrong (not assumptions but actually tried using), the I apologize. Otherwise, your reply was not necessary:

1) cannot share uploaded music, only purchased music. We've had itunes since it started and have uploaded and integrated Amazon purchases over 10 years and have A LOT of music not available in Apple Music that we want to share

2) there is one family calendar to share - my children have cloud calendars from school to show their homework and sporting events which can be sent to 1 device - I need to see these, not 1 family calendar. Each child keeps their own calendar and I need to see this info too. A family calendar doesn't cut it.

3) I did not see how I can allow their texting to go to my computer imessage when they are on their own account

4) in Family share, newly added contacts are not shared across accounts

Please correct me if I am wrong about these

Surprised by the amount of unhelpful and stubborn "that's not our policy" type response here towards many people that have encountered the same issue. The repetition of you need to use "family sharing" is not a good fix for missed calls appearing on phones that did not miss the call. As a "feature" seeing missed calls elsewhere can be helpful, but the implementation is flawed in that there is no choice provided if you want it or not. A simple toggle in the settings would fix it all. It can be very confusing to see these messages.

Please, stop saying Family Sharing is the answer. It might fix the issue in some circumstances, but it is overkill fo this use case and still not a fix for all. How does it solve my problem? Very simply, I have 2 phones. I own them both. I use them both. I personally DO NOT want to see missed calls from one phone disturbing me on the other phone. It rarely makes sense. I intentionally want to keep them as identical as possible from an apps and content perspective, and as they are both owned by me I do NOT want to create an additional icloud account owned both owned by me.

Also, switching off other features which may be useful such as icloud drive, or handoff - no, those are workarounds that remove other functionality.

I'm not the only one - I suspect there may be a few more people using their phones like me - in fact there are a few here with the same issue!

blokefromlondon wrote:

Surprised by the amount of unhelpful and stubborn "that's not our policy" type response here towards many people that have encountered the same issue. The repetition of you need to use "family sharing" is not a good fix for missed calls appearing on phones that did not miss the call. As a "feature" seeing missed calls elsewhere can be helpful, but the implementation is flawed in that there is no choice provided if you want it or not. A simple toggle in the settings would fix it all. It can be very confusing to see these messages.

Please, stop saying Family Sharing is the answer. It might fix the issue in some circumstances, but it is overkill fo this use case and still not a fix for all. How does it solve my problem? Very simply, I have 2 phones. I own them both. I use them both. I personally DO NOT want to see missed calls from one phone disturbing me on the other phone. It rarely makes sense. I intentionally want to keep them as identical as possible from an apps and content perspective, and as they are both owned by me I do NOT want to create an additional icloud account owned both owned by me.

Also, switching off other features which may be useful such as icloud drive, or handoff - no, those are workarounds that remove other functionality.

What, else, exactly, do you expect us to tell you? This is the way Apple has it set up. We can't change that. The only suggestions we can offer are what you call "workarounds". Sorry, but no one here can magically fix this issue for you. Only Apple can and they are not involved in this discussion.

If you want to complain, complain to Apple. Tell them what you want:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

1ricca wrote:

THIS!^

Steve Jobs would have punched the guy who implemented this idea into his brain child "MobileMe" aka iCloud

MobileMe was deprecated and iCloud released just around the same time that Mr. Jobs died. It is quite likely that he had a hand in the development of iCloud, so in addition to being offensively presumptuous, your statement is also probably factually incorrect.

1ricca wrote:

THIS!^

Steve Jobs would have punched the guy who implemented this idea into his brain child "MobileMe" aka iCloud

Are you talking about the same Steve Jobs that solved the iPhone-4 antenna problem by telling owners "Don't hold it that way."

I know... \facepalm iCloud worked great for several years just like MobileMe. He also famously flipped out cursing and screaming at the entire MobileMe team when it started to have issues like the ones described here in iCloud today. People were fired. The team scrambled. All the problems were fixed and it became insanely simple and effective for families to use MobileMe.

Incorrect. Mixing up call information was not intended. Don't try conflating intended with unintended. Every support person I've spoken to regarding this issue admits this happens at random. Eg, not intended. Sorry, you're handing out bad info.