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

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.

Doing it wrong? We have 5 phones that all use the same Apple ID (Mom, Dad Personal, Dad Work and 2 kids) but only 2 of the phones have the same call history. Cam't figure out why. Turned off iCloud, Turned off handoff, turned off all the other suggestions and still calls history shows up on 2 phones. I deleted all the calls in history on one phone and it deleted all the calls on the other phone as well. the other 3 phones were not effected.

I might have another thing for people to try.

First, it is not true that you have to have more than one apple ID, we have had only one used over 2-3 phones for many years and apple has supported only one apple ID for them. We share contacts, notes, calendar, and a few pages/numbers files. Family share does not allow that (at least not at this time).

Every now and then we run into a problem where they don't work independently. Sometimes there is a new setting (like handoff) or something got changed after an IOP update.

We ran into this problem (call logs showing on both phones, not just the phone sending/receiving the calls) after updating to ios 9.3.4 this last week.

First call early this morning with Apple they checked that:

1) imessages and facetime were going only to the phone number of that phone (no other number, and not to any email address).

2) Handoff was turned off.

3) FYI, our icloud drive is turned on for both phones.

A couple of those had gotten set wrong (that person doesn't change their settings so not sure how that happened).

When checking this evening, sharing calls logs was still happening.

Just now rep had us log off of icloud (settings, icloud, sign off - at the bottom, choose to delete the notes off the phone - they are saved pm the cloud, but kept contacts and calendar on the phone). Then a reset (hold down home key & volume key). Then sign back on icloud (settings, icloud, merge contacts, calendars, etc.).

After the first phone finished, we did the same on the second phone.

Did a test (rep called each phone number) and they didn't show on the other call log.

All looks good (the calls made 30 minutes ago do not show up on the other phone).

So that is something to add to your list of things to try (especially tad44 who had the problem on two phones and not all 5, doing this on the two phones misbehaving will hopefully fix them up).

A side note, I always have apple-care on one of our phones (as problems with one typically are also on the other, even if it is a I can't figure out how to ...). When first level support can't fix it they pass me off to second level support and issues have always been fixed, including them giving me their contact number so I can contact them directly if the problem comes back. Well worth the price of the apple care (saves me time, frustration, etc.).

You hit the nail on the head. I would LOVE to use separate Apple ID's, and we do for some functions, like Messages and Facetime. But we need to continue to share a main Apple ID for photos and iTunes Match. Family Sharing is way too limited in its features.

Well obviously you are right. Because you are not having this experience so it must be the fault & problem only of stupid people right?

Seriously.

Apple does not anywhere state that you cannot share an Apple ID across multiple devices.
Within the iOS are places where you are supposed to be able to toggle things on & off to prevent the problems people are experiencing from happening.

For some users the inbuilt options do not work. If you read my comment you would see that in my case, as is the case with others, it is only happening between a limited number of our devices despite them having IDENTICAL settings. Not every device as you would expect if it was 'expected behaviour'.

Sorry, but that fits every definition of a bug.

When I talked with Apple 2nd tier support on two occasions the techs were baffled as to why it was happening. They said everything I had switched off should be preventing it from happening.

I also asked them outright 'is it okay to share an ID?'... their response was 'yes, it shouldn't be a problem'.

I don't know what you think these forums are for but my understanding is that they are for users seeking help & support.
Repeatedly telling people they are doing it wrong & that your way is the right way really is not in the spirit of these forums.

Thanks. This almost fixed the problem. We have not had these problems until we just upgraded my wife's phone. Same thing...we have multiple phones, imacs, apple tv, etc on a shared drive. We have had the phones for several days and did not have an issue until tonight. We went in and the iphone drive was off for both phones but it did not solve the problem. We made the other changes. The call log is still sharing but some of the other issues have stopped. Just have to figure out how to turn that off. My wife answered a call meant for me and started talking then I answered my phone to take the call and it hung up on her. If this isn't considered a "bug" or issue I don't know what would.

My Info has to have a different email address for each phone. Add your email contact to contacts and use that for one phone and for the other a different email address for that one.

Settings->contacts->My info

I have the same problem, except that it makes absolutely no sense for me to get two apple IDs

I have 2 iPhones, one for work and one personal and the contacts and call history should be separate.

I can't find a workaround for this and I definitely don't want "another" ID!

I was able to solve this quite simply. Go to 'settings', 'phone' and turn off 'calls on other devices'.

Go to iMessage and turn off 'text message forwarding' and turn off (uncheck) the phone number whose messages you don't want to see in 'Send & Receive'. Also within 'Send & Receive' at the bottom check the right phone number for 'Start New Conversations From'.

This fixed it for us - we kept the same apple ID, ICloud Drive on and were able to continue synching our contacts, emails and calendars. But now we don't share the same call history or call conversations.

You may find that you have to turn the phones on and off for the settings to take effect before testing it

Tried this and did not work either. Same outcome as Aladdin-It had above.

This could easily be fixed by Apple providing an option in settings to "not sync recents" across devices, or "do not merge" or something similar. No different to switching off iCloud Drive across devices. Just enables it on one device not the 2.

But Apple seems to not want this???

Why provide the iCloud Drive option to switch off then?

Come on Apple, please provide the option for owners of multiple phones to switch the merging of recent phone calls. Not too hard is it? Certainly not for Apple the all concurring tech giant.

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)

Not "yet another" Apple ID, but just one ID for each user. If you're sharing an Apple ID, instead of using Family Sharing, you're "doing it wrong" and will continue to run into issues.

That's not a "solution." That's a clumsy workaround that deprives you of all iCloud Drive functionality.

But hey, it's your life, your devices.

This did the trick without sacrificing any functionality. Thanks for the tip!

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