My husband's phone calls show up on my phone.

Ok, so if I create new Apple IDs for each phone in my household, what happens to all of the contacts and everything on the phones with new ID's. And with the mother computer which is the "backup and saving computer" also the computer that houses the photo library. Yes we use iCloud, but not for everything on the phone. I don't understand that we have had iPhones for over 10 years and have never had this problem until the last couple weeks when we went to ios10. I would like to find a fix without the multiple apple ID's because we can't lose the info on the phones.

But why do we suddenly have to do this? Why is Apple pushing everyone to have their own Apple IDs? We are now getting home screen notifications of browsing and texting on other phones!

You are incorrect, this has not been that way for a year, this issue just began in October. The iOS update just prior to iOS 10 appears to be the cause, there have been no changes to any of the 4 phones my family has that share an account. All of our phone logs now show up on every device, if this is "working as designed" then Apple is dumber than I thought.

It is happening to me to and I have handoff turned off.

I don't understand why you've only had this situation for a couple of weeks, when the feature has been on all iPhones for over a year. The reason you didn't have it 10 years ago is that iCloud has only been around for a couple of years, so with no iCloud this feature wasn't available. If you have separate IDs and use family sharing you can still share a calendar. For Contacts, turn off the shared ID and you will be prompted to keep contacts on the phone. When you create a new ID those contacts will be associated with the new ID. Does everyone really need each other's contacts? I have 1100, my wife has 300, and there isn't that much overlap.

Anyway, you have a feature enabled that allows you to answer a call on any device. That's why all devices sharing an Apple ID ring. It's a great feature; if I'm at my Mac I can answer a phone call from it, rather than pull out my phone. Likewise for my iPad. You can turn off this feature; go to Settings/phone and turn off Calls on other devices. Or just turn off some devices. Do this on each device.

If you are sharing an Apple ID that can also cause it. You need to turn off more than Handoff. You also need to turn off "calls on other devices."

You are probably sharing an AppleID. This is a feature of Handoff. Look at your FaceTime settings and Phone settings, and turn off "receive calls on other devices" Ultimately, splitting your AppleID's is the way to go.

MillsFam wrote:

But why do we suddenly have to do this? Why is Apple pushing everyone to have their own Apple IDs?

As that was always the way they were intended to be used, yes. If you need to share data and purchased content, use Family Sharing.

Best of luck

MillsFam wrote:

But why do we suddenly have to do this? Why is Apple pushing everyone to have their own Apple IDs? We are now getting home screen notifications of browsing and texting on other phones!

There's nothing "suddenly" about it. iOS has worked that way since Continuity was introduced, over a year ago.

Apple designed iCloud as a single user system, so it was working exactly as intended.

vankeno wrote:

I don't understand that we have had iPhones for over 10 years

I don't understand that either since the original iPhone was released in the summer of 2007...

I would like to find a fix without the multiple apple ID's because we can't lose the info on the phones.

Apple IDs were never intended to be shared. Follow the instructions above to preserve what you can on the individual phones, and stop sharing an account for iCloud.

Ok thank you for the history lesson, sorry for the exaggeration (my bad).

If I go to their own Apple ID what does the family share iCloud mean to me?

Here's Apple's information about Family Sharing: Family Sharing - Apple Support