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What iOS 8 feature is this and how do I turn it off

Trekkie

Trekkie

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After updating all my phones to GM I have a new feature I never noticed when I ran the beta on just one phone.

When someone calls it, suddenly my other iOS devices start ringing along with it (iPad, another iPhone).

While a neat feature, one of my phones is my employer phone and i get a ton of calls on it, and having all my devices start ringing is a little weird.

I looked around, but I'm not sure what feature that is. Anyone know? That isn't handoff is it?
 
Try under "Facetime" settings, disable "iPhone celluar calls"
 
FaceTime has done that for ages. But I think normal calls do that too with iOS 8 and Yosemite now.
 
Go into the Notifications settings on the other devices and alter them for FaceTime and Messages. You can set the sound to nothing, I think.

(Looking on my phone now, I can do that with Messages but not FaceTime. I'm pretty sure that iPads let you turn both off, though.)

This is not new (for FaceTime anyway) but installing the new OS must have reset the settings for you.
 
OK. I think that was it. I'll let you know next time I get a call :)

Was hoping it wasn't handoff. Neat idea, but I get too many calls for work and my iPad ringing was crazy.

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Small White Car said:
Go into the Notifications settings on the other devices and alter them for FaceTime and Messages. You can set the sound to nothing, I think.

(Looking on my phone now, I can do that with Messages but not FaceTime. I'm pretty sure that iPads let you turn both off, though.)

This is not new (for FaceTime anyway) but installing the new OS must have reset the settings for you.
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I'm pretty sure it's new. I've never had it do this before, and only the devices upgraded to iOS 8 did this, along with Yosemite. My Mac OS X 10.9 laptop never flipped over.
 
I've disabled Handoff and iPhone Cellular Calls on all my devices, but I am still getting call and missed call logs syncing between the wife and my phone. Anyone know of a way to disable? It's confusing to get a missed call popup on all phones.
 
muzzymate said:
I've disabled Handoff and iPhone Cellular Calls on all my devices, but I am still getting call and missed call logs syncing between the wife and my phone. Anyone know of a way to disable? It's confusing to get a missed call popup on all phones.
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Are you using the same iCloud account on both devices? With iOS 8 they've gotten a lot more aggressive on syncing and if you use the same account they are working a lot tighter than they used too.

I'm hoping today the iOS Family Share stuff enables better than it is, as I'm having issues with my kids accounts I tried to create/found my daughter had created type of thing.
 
Trekkie said:
After updating all my phones to GM I have a new feature I never noticed when I ran the beta on just one phone.

When someone calls it, suddenly my other iOS devices start ringing along with it (iPad, another iPhone).

While a neat feature, one of my phones is my employer phone and i get a ton of calls on it, and having all my devices start ringing is a little weird.

I looked around, but I'm not sure what feature that is. Anyone know? That isn't handoff is it?
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Why on earth would these devices (belonging to different people) be logged in to the same iCloud account? This is not how iOS devices are intended to be used.
 
Padmini said:
Why on earth would these devices (belonging to different people) be logged in to the same iCloud account? This is not how iOS devices are intended to be used.
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I own an iPad Air, an iPhone 5 (personal) and an iPhone 5 (work). Why would I not use the same account on all of them, they're all mine.
 
Trekkie said:
Are you using the same iCloud account on both devices? With iOS 8 they've gotten a lot more aggressive on syncing and if you use the same account they are working a lot tighter than they used too.

I'm hoping today the iOS Family Share stuff enables better than it is, as I'm having issues with my kids accounts I tried to create/found my daughter had created type of thing.
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There is no reason to ever be sharing an iCloud account with different people, even your own family.

Sharing an iTunes Store account is something completely different, and does have a lot of merits. Probably more so than Family Sharing even offers.
 
Padmini said:
There is no reason to ever be sharing an iCloud account with different people, even your own family.

Sharing an iTunes Store account is something completely different, and does have a lot of merits. Probably more so than Family Sharing even offers.
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Prior to iOS 8 yes there was, you couldn't create accounts for two year olds. I turned off iMessage/Facetime and left on only Find My iPad. With iOS 7, Find my iPad got tied to the iCloud account for the security so I couldn't create the 'Find my' only option that worked prior to that. Again, with four children under 13 none of them could have an iCloud account.

I wrote a feature request for what is family sharing (mostly) about two years ago for iOS 6. I'm very excited to use it, just with the GM so far none of the web based iCloud features that support family sharing are working.
 
Looks like a lot cheating husbands are going be caught by wives with this feature. Imaging mistress was calling you while your wife was using your iPad.
 
I think you're referring to continuity. If don't want the office phone to ring every other device, just turn it off on the office phone.
 
Padmini said:
There is no reason to ever be sharing an iCloud account with different people, even your own family.
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Plenty of reasons -

If you want to share a single family Address Book so all contacts are up to date. In fact you still do as I don't see the Family Sharing offering a solution to sharing Contacts.

Also, I have two small children. I wanted to make sure all photos be synced to our iPhoto library. This may change with Family Sharing but I'm not entirely sure yet. I didn't want to have to buy iCloud Storage twice. It was previously very expensive.

Regarding photos: "Now collecting and sharing family memories is easier and more fun. When Family Sharing is turned on, a shared album is set up automatically in the Photos app on all family members’ devices. Then everyone can add photos, videos, and comments to the album and be notified when something new is added." Doesn't sound like it's a single photo stream for all people, just a single shared album that people can contribute to.
 
So if handoff will ring your ipad for incoming calls, is it possible to make outbound calls from ones ipad via "reverse handoff"?
 
muzzymate said:
If you want to share a single family Address Book so all contacts are up to date. In fact you still do as I don't see the Family Sharing offering a solution to sharing Contacts.
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In order to share contacts, you can add a second icloud account under "mail, contacts, etc" and only turn on contacts.
 
Batavian said:
So if handoff will ring your ipad for incoming calls, is it possible to make outbound calls from ones ipad via "reverse handoff"?
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At least in the betas, I believe so, yes. You use the iPad's FaceTime app to initiate the call.
 
Yep, via your contacts.

Can click any phone numbers on websites and it'll call from the iPad too.
 
Trekkie said:
Prior to iOS 8 yes there was, you couldn't create accounts for two year olds. I turned off iMessage/Facetime and left on only Find My iPad. With iOS 7, Find my iPad got tied to the iCloud account for the security so I couldn't create the 'Find my' only option that worked prior to that. Again, with four children under 13 none of them could have an iCloud account.

I wrote a feature request for what is family sharing (mostly) about two years ago for iOS 6. I'm very excited to use it, just with the GM so far none of the web based iCloud features that support family sharing are working.
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I also wrote and emailed Apple when iOS 6 came out for the feature that is now FaceTime Audio and with iOS 8 the number association with the Apple ID. :) it seems Apple DOES listen to its customers
 
Night Spring said:
In order to share contacts, you can add a second icloud account under "mail, contacts, etc" and only turn on contacts.
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Cools, thanks! Didn't realize you could do that. Now just need a solution for a single all pictures, automatic photostream.
 
dojoman said:
Looks like a lot cheating husbands are going be caught by wives with this feature. Imaging mistress was calling you while your wife was using your iPad.
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If we are going to be sexist by assuming the men are the cheaters, let's just take it all the way to the extreme.

Husbands won't get caught because they are the ones settings up the devices and accounts. It's the cheating wives that will fall into the trap.
 
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