Can I sync my phone with just certain contact groups?

Question

We have two iphones that are linked to one apple id. i have had to turn off cloud contact syncing as it was syncing both phones with all contacts
Syncing with my mac allows syncing with specifc contact groups, is this possible with cloud syncing?

Answer 1

iCloud will not sync specific contact folders like iTunes.  The only way to separate your contacts is to set up different iCloud accounts on both phones.  If you want to do this, first decide which phone will be moving to the new account, then on the phone that will be moving, go to Settings>iCloud and turn all data that is syncing with iCloud (contacts, calendars, etc.) to Off.  When prompted choose to keep the data on the iPhone.  After everything is turned off, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from this phone, not from iCloud.  The other phone will not be effected by this.)  Next, set up a new iCloud account on this phone using a different Apple ID and turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On.  When prompted, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to this new account.  At this point you will have two different iCloud accounts, one for each phone, with identical data on them.
You will then have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the unwanted data (such as deleting the other phone's contacts from your account, and vice versa).  These changes will be reflected on each phone.  When finished you will have individual iCloud accounts with just your own data on them.