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Quantum Entanglement

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vandermast

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Apr 12, 2015
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When a phone call is receive by my wife's Apple Watch / iPhone, it also rings my Apple watch too. However, this doesn't happen to her if a call is made to my number.

Both watches have the same Apple ID. This entanglement doesn't happen with the iPhones. That is to say my iPhone doesn't also ring, just my watch.

Any suggestions?
 
I thought an Apple ID could only use one number at a time? I'm guessing you signed into iMessage on her phone after yours?
 
Both my work phone and home phone run off the same Apple ID and I initially had this issue. You need to check your FaceTime and Messages settings on both phones and make sure that only the relevant phone number is selected.
 
We've seen this several times - people trying to share an apple ID. You really can't do this with Apple watch. It messes up digital touch, amongst other things.

You should use family sharing. I think the only reason that people were using a shared apple id as a family was to keep the same contact list (but, honestly, your kids want to have their own friends in their own contact list - and you shouldn't have them).

Family sharing allows you to share your iTunes and App Store purchases.
 
For the love of Jobs, please sort out this mess. Get your own iCloud account and enable iTunes sharing if you need to share purchases.
 
My wife and I share an iCloud so that we can shere both the Contact and the Calendar. Is there any other way to share the Calendar?
 
Hmmm, looking at the Family Share, it doesn't look like it shares the Contact file. Does it? (I hope I'm wrong)
 
vandermast said:
When a phone call is receive by my wife's Apple Watch / iPhone, it also rings my Apple watch too. However, this doesn't happen to her if a call is made to my number.

Both watches have the same Apple ID. This entanglement doesn't happen with the iPhones. That is to say my iPhone doesn't also ring, just my watch.

Any suggestions?
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Sharing apple ID is just asking for trouble. You really can't complain about an issue like this until you stop sharing the ID.
 
You both need your own Apple IDs, this is just plain silly. There are a ton of ways to share calendars and purchases in addition to the family share. You can share your calendar with anyone with an iPhone under settings.
 
Please stop guys. You're saying the same things others already have further up the thread. The OP needs to weigh the info and decide for themselves a path forward.
 
Apple Support's Suggestion

Apple support suggested this and it worked:

iPhone / Settings / General / Handoff & Suggested Apps / Handoff / set to off

iPhone / Settings / FaceTime / iPhone Cellular Calls / set to off
 
vandermast said:
Apple support suggested this and it worked:

iPhone / Settings / General / Handoff & Suggested Apps / Handoff / set to off

iPhone / Settings / FaceTime / iPhone Cellular Calls / set to off
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Well, that's a partial fix. You guys really do need to look at having your own Apple ID's and enable family sharing (allows you to share App Store and iTunes purchases as well as having a shared calendar).

There will be complications with a shared Apple ID that you will continually run into as you try to use more functionality of your devices. You need your own identities.
 
fischersd said:
Well, that's a partial fix. You guys really do need to look at having your own Apple ID's and enable family sharing (allows you to share App Store and iTunes purchases as well as having a shared calendar).

There will be complications with a shared Apple ID that you will continually run into as you try to use more functionality of your devices. You need your own identities.
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I agree this is only a partial fix but it solved the problem and only took a minute to do it. Besides, I don't think I've ever come close to using all of the features in any of the devices among my electronic managerie.

For example, I've been a constant computer user since the Apple II, but I've never liked electronic calendars. Our shared calendar, solar powered, hangs on the kitchen wall along with an Alvin 0.5mm mechanical pencil. We work from home and don't need anything more complicated than that to manage appointments.

But yes...sigh...separate Apple IDs are now on the bucket list.
 
AppleCorn said:
Thanks, we'll need to think about the change. Thanks a lot!
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You don't need to do that. On each device set up the main iCloud account as that person's individual account. Then on your wife's device, turn off contacts in the iCloud settings. Then add a second account in mail, contacts and calendars in the device settings adding your main iCloud account but only add contacts. This will allow you both to share a contact list but keep all other stuff separate. No shares iMessages or anything else. You can share calendars or set them up the same way depending on what you want to share within calendars.
 
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