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

I Want to second this. We share an Apple ID on all devices so that all pictures taken get automatically shared with all devices. So we have the max data plan and share it for backups as well. We did experiment with family sharing and I lost access to all the pics on my phone as well as having a backup too big to do in the free 5 gig. Family photo sharing isn't automatic, you have to choose pics to share and we just want them all to Be shared. A solition would be to enhance family shareing to optionally upload all pics to photos for the main Apple ID (not everyone might want this) and to allow the icloud space used to be pooled. The idea w family sharing is to share purchases and iCloud Drive space is a purchase so why not share or allow the main account my to allocate space to the sub accounts. When that happens it will be great and I'll move everyone to their own Id under family sharing. And before the license complaints come these devices are all mine but I let family members use them. The phone call thing is frustrating as we each think we missed calls. If the recent calls would show what device originated or missed the call that woujd be helpful. But since my phone does not ring when my wife receIves a call what good does the log do me for answering the call? None.

Hello,

any luck with solving this matter?

i Also have two iphones which i would like sharing everything between apart from the call history..

best regards,

zaid

The whole discussion here about how should one use his/her Apple devices is completely irrelevant.

This thread should be rephrased as:

In my iCloud settings I can turn off syncing of iCloud Drive, Photos, mail. contacts, calendars, reminders, Safari, Notes, Wallet and Keychain.

How comes I don't have the option of turning off call history syncing?

[The answer is, of course, a sloppy implementation by Apple. Somebody there added a feature and forgot to add the switch to turn it on/off.]

Thank you shaulm ... this is exactly what it looks like. I don't need and i don't want my call history be stored in iCloud. But it seems as if i can't switch it off :-(

Turning iCloud Drive off on one of the phones involved "cured" it for me. It really should be a separate setting.

Yes, all very tricky

We have three phones, all using one ID. My wife is sit, and we need to share calendars, contacts and Notes (since iOS 9, Notes cannot be shared between different IDs BTW). All phones have a different ID for FaceTime and Messages and have different phone numbers. The phone numbers alone, are used for FT and oMessage. My two (i use one overseas) have iCloud drive on and my wife does not. The call log on my Australian phone is mirrored on my overseas phone, but not vice versa. Nothing gets to my wife's phone.

Very inconsistent.

So, three phones, two people. Happy with this Tim, my wee kilted buddy?

All of this started with the IOS 9 upgrade.

I will investigate further.

Tony

Well thats it. I tested it with my two iPhones, MANY times:

Test 1 - Common Message and FaceTime ID

Settings:

- No iCloud drive

- Common ID for tunes photos etc.

- Different, yes common ID for Messages and Face Time

Results:

- Details of calls logged on either phone copied to the other, although I had to wait up to an hour for this to happen at times

- Delete call logs on either phone had no effect on the other phone's logs

Test 2 - iCloud Drive on

Settings:

- iCloud drive on

- Common ID for tunes photos etc.

- Different ID for Messages and Face Time

Results:

- Details of calls logged on either phone copied to the other, although I had to wait up to an hour for this to happen at times

- Delete ALL call logs on either phone deleted ALL calls on the other

- Delete individual call logs on either phone, delete MOST calls on the other (some just stayed put!)

Note: This occurred when I switched iCould drive off then back too

I only switched on iCloud drive in the first place to enable the backup/sharing on my keyboard text replacement (which is great)

Summary:

- Logs can be shared with or without iCloud drive on.

- There is a mix of behaviour, so probably a bug or two in there

- if we want to share IDs, we just have to live with the consequences, until Apple comes up with a better solution.

For those who shout about the fact that we should not share IDs e.g. Tartan Tim, think on this:

- The functionality is there to do so

- It is being sold by Apple support and those in the know in Apple stores

- To me, that is as good as published functionality

So, GET OVER IT!

Also, Apple gives and it takes away.

For someone like me who needs to share medical and other daily information with a sick wife, we have to share a lot.

Prior to IOS 9 we could have completely separate IDs, and share everything but Explorer Bookmarks. Life was good

Along came IOS9 with the usual, Apple settings to make us all less private, and bulleted notes that we could doodle on

Bingo, everything went backwards and we had to use common IDs and our call lists became common. Shopping is much easier with the new lists though!

Roll on IOS 10

Happy Days!

Tony

Bless you! I've been bothered by this ever since upgrading to iOS9.

Hi Brian,

You have made your point clear as have many others regarding setting up you very own apple id to solve phone log sharing. There are reasons we do this. Photo stream is but one, using a common iCloud backup account for ALL devices is another, and I am sure there are many others. Please know that many of us did this years ago and it worked perfectly. I shutter to think how much time it would take to create the separation of this one account now into several.

Just want you to know we hear you, but are not willing to separate accounts until all possibilities are explored.

There are situations where sharing an ID is necessary. We purchased a phone for our son but he's not old enough to create an email. Literally it won't allow us to create one due to his age. Therefore we need to share an Apple ID in order to have certain things i.e. Find my iPhone turned on. Please stop there are people who need this figured out!!!

This seems to address the original poster's concern: Re: My recent calls appearing on another iPhone!?

That is precisely my use case as well -- I carry 2 iPhones, one for business use and another for personal use. There are obvious reasons and benefits to use a common AppleID on both, but having my call history between both phones "blend together" was confusing and useless.

Taking the advice to disable iCloud Drive (Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive > Off) on one of the iPhones resolved this issue for me, where both devices are running iOS 9.3.1 (so very unintuitive of a solution!).

Thank you for offering this. It worked.

I too have two iPhones one for work and one for personal. Sharing the phone history had been plaguing me for a long time but this seems to work from another persons response who references another user who went to the genius bar. By shutting off facetime on the work phone I no longer share that phones call history SO FAR, on my private iPhone. I wish that there was a software switch that would allow us to just shut off call history. I really do not use Facetime on my work phone, but one never knows when this might become handy. It is much easier to have the business calls stay separate from my personal iPhone and vice versa, and yet still be able to share the iCloud for both devices.

Never mind shutting of Facetime does not prevent the calls from my business phone to show in the call history of my personal phone.. DARN