"Recent calls" list won't clear

Hi. Hope this article will be helpful: http://osxdaily.com/2013/05/23/clear-call-history-iphone/

1. From the Home screen, tap Phone.
2. Tap on Recents.
3. Then tap Edit.
4. Tap Clear.
5. Tap Clear All Recents to confirm. This will remove call history

I've read all of the comments in this blog and it appears that everybody has an iPhone device with this problem. I've experienced the same problem on my iMac and my Macbook Air over the last few years. Can't identify exactly when it started. The iMac now running El Capitan and the Air now running Sierra. I don't now or have ever used iCloud Drive.

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Same problem here. "Recent" calls (some from last year...) persistently reappear in call history even though I've deleted the entire history every time this has happened (and it seems to happen almost daily now). Just like NetScore said, powering the phone down does not help and there seems to be no obvious pattern to when the calls reappear. I updated to iOS 8.4 recently and hoped that this would resolve the issue, but apparently it didn't... 😕

NOT HELPFUL. This does not work. Oh sure you can delete all. But the come back! My call log is showing calls from July 2016! Then it jumps to August 15 , 2017. The other thing that is annoying is you cant just delete missed calls. If you are on the missed calls screen and try to delete them then everything goes. Its stupid!!

I Also experienced this problem Today 3 deleted calls from 2014 appeared as missed calls on my lock screen. When I looked at my missed calls a list of old deleted calls appeared. It took me two tries to clear all to get rid of them. But I had already cleared them last year. Anybody else?

I have the same problem. I've tried everything and can temporarily delete my recent call list, but they keep coming back. Powering the phone down after clearing the list does not solve the problem and I can't find a pattern to why the calls reappear. Hello Apple Support -- any suggestions?

I have today started having the same problem. Clear calls list and it later reappears. I thought it might have been related to several calls I've had from one of those numbers which appears to be genuine but which hangs up the moment you answer. This is on an iPhone 5 using iOS 8.4.

Hello Brianlp and others !

I think instead of deleting the whole list at once you should delete the numbers one by one i know it will take long but this is the only thing we can try here.

let me know if you any more assistance.

Have a nice Day !

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I Have that exact issue and I have tried your resolution and no this does not work, I woke this morning to missed called form over 6 months ago and several face time calls that have been deleted. this has become a pain in my butt and nothing that has been suggested has worked.

I am having the same exact thing happening to me, all the replies i have done and it still happens. Apple has no resolution????

Hi

Restore back to Factory Settings

After restore use same Apple ID to get your apps & data back

This will get rid of any bugs .

Cheers

Brian uk

Brian, what you said would have worked if this was a bug related to the device you're holding in your hand or it's software installation but this issue has nothing to do with your device. It's most likely an iCloud issue because when you delete recent calls from the device they get deleted on the device... then after a while (usually around midnight) they come back to your device. Deleting iCloud Backup does nothing to resolve this issue either. So they must be stored at some other part of the iCloud that's not accessible to users.

This is a pretty nasty bug that may appear to be gone for a while (as it did for me after I installed iOS 8.4 update) but then it comes back out of the blue and bring back your recent calls from months, sometimes years ago.

As urbncwby76 described, the problem sometimes seemingly goes away but then comes back all of a sudden... and the length of the calls list keeps growing as new calls are made, making it more and more tedious every time to remove the calls one by one (especially since removing them one by one does not seem to solve the problem ultimately). Please, dear Apple tech people, try and figure this out...!

This has just started happening to me, had an iPhone for years and had never happened before. Just upgraded to the iPhone 6 and installed the latest update and hey presto.....3 months worth of old calls, including dialled ones. Does anyone (that includes you Apple) have a fix for this?