Getting rid of unwanted contacts

As I was just looking through my phones I realized that as well as my own contacts, I also have both of my sisters contacts present on my phone. I tried turning off contacts from the icloud but that just resulted in the loss of all my contacts so I had no choice but to turn it back on. I was wondering if there is anyway that I can resolve this problem without individually going through each contact and deleting them?

You'll probably have to delete them all manually, it's defo the safest way to do it.
But before that:
Connect your phone to iTunes
Select it from the left hand menu (Will be under devices)
Click the info tab at the top
Make sure that the contacts are de-selected for sync.
Make sure you do that first, as it will just load everything back on when you connect it. Once it's done, then you can delete the contacts.
Let me know if this was helpful!

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