How do I stop sharing call history between two iPhones (one mac)

My husband & I have shared the same Apple ID for almost 10 yrs, just started having the shared call log history issue (yes it is an issue hence the existence of this thread) with the iOS 10 upgrade. Have been trying everything, sans the dreaded choice of one of us having to create a new Apple ID acct. (Neither of us volunteering. Ha ha!) So...Thank you, thank you, thank you Garypaul for the My Info tip. My husband did not have himself entered

as a contact in hisiPhone. Once he added his own iPhone # & email address in his contact info & we both restarted our iPhones...Hallelujah! At long last it looks like the pesky "Call history log sharing issue" is no more! A week & counting. Woo hoo!

You are the bestest! Happy New Year!!!

Oh, & to you "No multiple people

sharing one Apple ID" spewers, you know who you are. SHUT UP ALREADY!!!! You're notthe Apple ID police (contrary to your self appointed belief). Let's lift each other up, not push each other down.

🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 Here's hoping! ✌-1F3FC;🕊✌-1F3FC;🕊

My phone and my husbands phone starting doing the same thing when we upgrade to 9.01...I disabled FaceTime on both phones...didn't solve problem...I disabled Handoff on both phones...didn't solve problem....This morning I disabled Clouddrive on both phones and cleared both our caller histories....If this doesn't work all that is left to do is either wait for a fix from Apple or create separate accounts which is gonna be a pain in the butt! I'll let you know if my last attempt to stop this madness works 😕

I have exactly the same issue. My wife and I share an apple ID and now share the call history since we upgraded to iOS 9.01. Our kids share a different Apple ID and also have the same problem between them. This never existed before iOS 9. Setting up another Apple ID would be a nightmare to manage since my wife and I share everything except contacts and calendars (which I get from my work server).

There doesn't seem to be any fix, yet. VERY frustrating.

They just came out with iOS 9.0.2 this morning and this DOES fix it. No need to create yet ANOTHER apple ID or even turn off the handoff feature (which will disable that capability on my watch). Thanks for helping, you guys.

When apple lets you share your icloud storage space among family members I'll be happy to set up family ID's. Until then I refuse to pay an extra $10/mo when I have plenty of free space to backup our phones under one icloud account.

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Hmm.. I guess it's a dollar now.. still it's the principal here! 😉

Found this in another thread. Fixed it for me:

Settings -> General -> Handoff. Turn this feature off on both handsets.

I have two iphones, both iOS10. second phone periodically gets activated using prepaid service and is used by various members of my family. but call history to my primary phone is showing up on the second phone. I tried all the remedies but none worked (disable iCloud Drive, change "me" on contacts, reboot, disable hand-off, etc)

To remedy this, I found out through Genius Bar that you have to turn off the e-mail address used in the shared iCloud account off in Facetime setting on all phones.

this is even if the 2nd phone doesn't have any appleID or e-mail account associated with Facetime, iMessage or anything (only phone number for each phone).

1. meaning, let's say your iCloud account is history@g*.com
2. you have two phones with different phone numbers/carriers using history@g*.com for iCloud (so you share contacts, etc. between the phones).
3. primary phone lists history@g*.com for Facetime (Settings-->Facetime)
4. 2nd phone only has its phone number for Facetime (Settings-->Facetime)
5. 2nd phone will receive call history from primary phone because primary phone lists history@g*.com and the 2nd phone uses history@g*.com for iCloud.
6. you need to "uncheck" history@g*.com in Settings-->Facetime on all phones to stop the other phones from receiving call history from a phone that lists history@g*.com as approved Facetime e-mail contact address.

so if you don't want to share call history, one MUST NOT use the e-mail used for iCloud account on Facetime for any phones!

Apple should not automatically equate 2 phone numbers into one like this, especially there's a setting to choose Facetime e-mail separately from iCloud account.

especially if Facetime, iMessage has capability of choosing non-iCloud e-mail, had "call transfer" off, etc etc.

if this is a feature, it's very bad. I can see if could be useful but it should be an opt-in service and not hard-linked like this that will force you to lose usefulness of your e-mail used for iCloud as ID. they should make it so it can be enabled/disabled (either at iCloud setting level, or at the Facetime/iMessage setting level) without having to disable iCloud email name use for Facetime on all phones!

We changed our iCloud email address recently and this started to happen. Look at the contacts details in your address book for you and the other person who gets your call log. My wife found that Siri had picked up my cellphone number off an email and added it to her contact page. When she marked it ‘ignore’ the problem went away. I’d suggest you check both sets of contacts to see if the same cellphone number shows in either.

Apple do not have my or my partner's legal consent to share our call history, it's not detailed in any of the agreements I keep being asked to agree with when I update, and they may therefore be in breach of UK or European law. Class action anyone?

Just give us the option to not share between devices, its not a big ask. C'mon apple, please?

SOLUTION: Well this is what worked for us. Go to settings on your iPhone and iPad, then phone, then turn off "calls on other devices". Also under Messages, turn on iMessage, but look under "text message forwarding" and make sure only one phone is listed. Then double check under "Send and Receive" that only the one phone you want is checked. It seemed like the update automatically included both of our numbers in all of these settings. Once we changed this setting, we stopped getting double calls and messages. It's a shame that Apple support can't even figure out what is causing these double messages when it is a settings issue.

Hi

There is a lot of good info above.

I have largely got round this by using a common ID for purchases, iTunes, calendar, contacts, photos and safari shortcuts (the last two not being easily shared) by allowing my wife to use the main ID with her phone and email details. I created a separate ID for myself to iMessage, FaceTime and of course my mobile number

This works well and neither see each others calls EXCEPT FOR when EITHER of us receives a call and I am wearing my iWatch, when it rings. Naturally, I cannot answer the call, but this is a bit irritating.

At one point, like you, I had two iphones under my account, but with different phone numbers, and yes, whether iCloud drive was on or off, MOST (not all) of the call/Facetime histories were logged on both phones.

So, for me the separate ID is the way to go. Also, because every often, an Apple update sneaks another hand-off, or allows iMessage/faceTime to use all contact emails and numbers or some other bit of connectivity that we don't want set, I never get tangled up with with my wife messages and calls.

Managing a separate apple ID is very easy. In fact I have a few so I can purchase is many countries.

Cheers

Tony

Go to setting -> Contacts -> My Info

If both phones have the same My Info change it on your wife's iPhone to her email address. She

may need to add her email address to her contacts. When you press on the My Info contact

in it will bring you to your contacts,

That is simply all you need to do. If both iPhones have the same My Info they will share call

history.

For us, 9.0.2 does NOT fix the issue with shared calling histories between different iPhones. We both have iPhone 6s's on iOS 9.0.2. I tried shutting off WiFi phone calls, disabling Handoff on her phone (I need it on my phone) as well as ensuring her phone and devices aren't selected for "Allow Calls on other devices".

What worked for me was to disable iCloud Drive on my wife's iPhone 6s -- as suggested above (thanks, ifat) thankfully she doesn't use any iCloud drive features. I know this isn't optimal but it works for our situation to preserve the features we need.

I realize people will say use different Apple ID's but the primary reason we are sharing Apple IDs is to share the iCloud photo library: that way pictures we both take end up in the same library. We both then have access to our 325 GB library with over 15 years of photos, a huge benefit of a cloud shared photo library. For us, Family Sharing isn't really about sharing purchases.

If Apple would allow Family sharing to also share the iCloud Photo Library that would solve this issue. Ideally, Apple would allow authorized family members to access the shared photo library (configurable per device as I don't want all my little kid's photos from their devices). It would also require sharing the full storage plan of the primary account holder (otherwise sharing a huge library doesn't work), and this could be used to allow iCloud device backups all to the same storage plan.

Until then, I hope Apple realizes many people share the Apple ID for the photos and re-enable the sequestering of the call history to each device. It would make sense for call history to be sync'd among devices selected in the "Allow Calls on other devices" preference.

All here in this thread are writing "Don't share a Apple-ID" and reprimand the users who do this ...

I have two phones by my own (one is my company iPhone, the other one is my private one).

Would like to share all my data except the call history on this two phones!

So - is this not a "used case" which makes sense???

Regards, Richard