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

I have one Apple ID and use it on 5 devices: 2 iPhones, 2 iPads and one iMac. It would be certainly painful to maintain 5 separate AppleIDs simply because there are some items i do not wish to synch between devices, yet other items that I do wish to synch. I cannot control this, so everything is shared. Until apple resolves this I guess I am in the same boat as everyone else (one solution fits all, right?) I just have to keep in mind that some of the incoming calls I am being alerted about are from my secondary phone, or some from my primary phone will show up on the secondary phone. What is weird is that, even though I made the call, outgoing, from my primary phone, it showed up on my secondary phone in red as if it was a missed incoming call. This led me to believe someone had contacted me and no little embarrassment when I called them "back".

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

Respectfully Brian, please no longer reply to this thread. I understand you live by the books. Unfortunately for some of us, family share is not even an option. It does not address at all some of our use cases, I can't speak for everyone. For instance, the guy who has a work and personal cell but uses the same apple id. Is he suppose to use two apple id's? I think everyone would agree that it a little ridiculous.

As for why we continue to talk about this, have you every modified anything in your life? Or do you take your car to the dealership for absolutely every thing? Even an oil change?

I honestly have no idea what kind of satisfaction you get from constantly saying "you're doing it wrong" after almost every post made here. All we're doing is trying to help one another achieve the same slight modification that we previously had. There's nothing wrong with that.

The topic is 'How do I stop sharing call history between two iPhones (one mac)'. The detail talks about sharing devices with other people, but the question is the same, two devices regardless of the relationship between them. The relationship between my two phones has nothing to do with you or Apple, they are mine and I want to use both of them as I am one person, not two. I need two phones (greedy yes but still none of your business), and I need differentiate between who calls which phone.

To everyone else with helpful suggestions or just wanting answers. I've not solved this at all, I have unchecked the options people have suggested and still I get calls synchronising. The only outstanding thing is iCloud drive, which I really want between my two phones, so will turn that off tonight and try it.

Really?
Then perhaps you could explain this from Apple...
"Use the same Apple ID for every computer or device on your Home Sharing network...."
Seems from what you say Apple is encouraging people to break the ToU.
Here's the full article by-the-by... Use Home Sharing to share iTunes content with other devices - Apple Support

The simple fact is that this is a bug.
We have 3 x iPhones, 1 x iPad, 2 x iMacs & 2 x AppleTVs all using the one ID.
The sharing of the call register only happens between two of the iPhones.
If it was expected behaviour for people allegedly misusing an Apple ID then it would be happening across all devices would it not?

For what it's worth... on our affected iPhones we have the following switched off;

- Handoff

- iCloud Drive

- Calls on other devices

Also FaceTime & Messages are set to only use the handsets own number.

When I have previously talked with Apple support they have been baffled & said that it should not be happening at all especially with all of those settings as they are.

The problem persist in iOS 10 & in-fact is worse. Previously call logs only shared when on the same wifi network now it happens anywhere.

You can do whatever you want to do with your stuff, and you can live with the consequences of your choices. It makes absolutely no difference to me.

Have a nice day.

How do I disconnect calling history between 2 iPhones with the same Apple ID?

I re recorded greetings on my phones and perhaps solved the "same greeting" problem when I solved the phone history problem? Not sure. But if it helps someone else that's good.....

We agree, well thought out solution. This is why we have the same account too. Plus we have been Apple users for so long (owned the original Mac back in the day....30 years ago almost!). Apple did not give everyone different accounts, so we HAD to have the same account back then. Now, they are not taking that into account and making adjustments. It doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal to share the photos.

Yes, photos are shareable via Family sharing but you have to manually select then share the photos to the shared album. Our goal in our family is to automatically pool all photos taken to the same photo library. Manually sharing photos invariably is forgotten, and is inconvenient especially when there are automated options.

We all know sharing apple IDs isn't optimal, and yes, this is a band aid and not the intended use, but this seems the only way to achieve what I think is a reasonable and common use case and a desirable feature.

Same thing here Steve. But of course people will continue to say "don't use the same apple ID... yada yada yada". Apparently they don't understand that family share is severely lacking in that sense and is NOT a solution. Pretty sad implementation if you ask me. It seems family share is only meant really to share content purchases.

For us, it appears the iOS 9.1 has solved the issue: I turned iCloud Drive back on my wife's phone and after a few tests that previously failed, we're not seeing each other's call log.

Hoooray!! I hope this is a true fix and it sticks. I'll keep my fingers crossed and see how the next few days goes.

Regardless, I hope Apple offers additional sharing features for family share groups so we won't have to rely on bandaids or oversights in the feature set.

Does 9.1 fix the issue for others?

Hi

Stop sharing the same Apple ID since ios 8.00 data is sent to all Apple devices

with the same Apple ID when near your home WiFi

Change one ID .

Cheers

Brian (UK )

This is so that one person gets all the infomation on all apple devices

With the same id but each person needs own apple ID .

I thought 9.1 may have solved the issue for me, but today it has started synchronising again across all devices. Not sure why it stopped, maybe it didn't, just that I replaced my work phone with a new one, so maybe it didn't realise straight away.

I find people's 'use different IDs' particularly irritating and entirely unhelpful (maybe even irrelevant), as I am using the same ID on my personal iPhone as well as my work iPhone, so both IDs are mine, so why should I use different ones. I need to see my content on my Apple ID, not have these separated, even if people want to share IDs with spouses, what's that got to do with anyone else. The reason I don't want calls syncronising is that I need to know which phone people have called so I can call them back on the same phone. Syncronising missed calls should be optional, as it really isn't helpful.