2 iphones, 1 itunes account - why are my contacts ending up on his phone??
I am the primary iphone user and just got my boyfriend an iphone. We came home and set his phone up, I went into the settings to sync contacts to yahoo, put in his user name and password and when syncing was done, all of my contacts were on his phone. We restored and it happened again. this time, I checked his yahoo account and it pulled all the contacts off my phone/yahoo account and dumped them into his yahoo account.
We then deleted all my contacts out of his yahoo, restored the phone and synced and this time he ended up with his contacts.
I then plugged in my phone, changed the account in itunes to my yahoo account, hit sync and when it was done, it pulled all his contacts onto my phone.
What are we doing wrong?
I finally deleted all of my contacts out of yahoo and put them in google because he doesn't have a google account but there has got to be something that differenciates his phone and his yahoo contacts from mine so that we don't end up with eachothers contact lists.
Any insight would be greatly appreciate.
Christine
Does iTunes reconize your bf phone as diff from yours ? Should be his name.. Does he have his own apple ID?
He should have.. If those are both yes, then iTunes should reconize and seperate the two iPhone's. Also what operating system do u have? if it's windows u can use windows contacts and let your bf use yahoo so there is no confusion . Also it sounds like your contacts are in his iPhone back up and the same with yours....
Let me know if my babbling helps u lol ...
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