Why is my iPhone 4 reacting with someone else's?!

So it's been happening for a while, but whenever my dad downloads a new app on his iPhone, it gets downloaded to my iPhone as well! But not my mom's! And it's weird because it's only when he gets new apps that it also transfers to my phone. Today he added new locations for the weather app, and suddenly all of mine disappeared and changed to the ones that he had. When I changed it back, his changed as well! Can someone please help? I don't know what's going on.

^^ Which might not be possible if you are under 13.

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