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

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!?

You don't need to pay for anything additional. Keep your files on the main account, set up the others as free 5GB accounts, and share the files from the main account with others via Family Sharing.

Stop using the same Apple ID as your partner. It's that simple. Each person should have their own individual Apple ID.

You sharing your Apple ID with someone else, you are in violation of the Terms of Use for iCloud services. Go ahead. Try and sue them. You will lose.