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".

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;🕊

anyway, tried to edit my post, but it wouldn't let me, so here's the update.

The way Genius bar guy told me didn't work (uncheck e-mail on Facetime. that just didn't make any sense anyway).

what seemed to work is this- found on this site:

http://www.iphonetopics.com/stop-sharing-call-history-iphone/

Solution 2: Turn off option calls on other devices (for old iOS users)

1. Go to Settings > Phone -> Calls on other devices
2. Turn on ‘allow calls on other devices’. This will list all the devices signed into your iCloud account
3. Turn off all those devices
4. Turn off ‘allow calls on other devices’

By doing this even if you are sharing the same Apple ID across family members, the call details will not show on another iPhone.

After calling my primary phone, the history has not appeared on the 2nd phone 15min later.. keeping my fingers crossed...

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.

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.

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! 😉

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

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.

Found this in another thread. Fixed it for me:

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

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?

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!

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!

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.