I don't want my contacts on all of my devices

I recently updated my iPhone, iPad and my daughters iPod touch so that we have the new operating system and iCloud. Although I want my daughter to have my calendar, I don't want to merge my contacts with hers or have her receive all my photos. I've tried changing the settings but the contacts were already merged. She has now gone through and deleted my contacts from her iPod touch...is this the only way to do it? It's very frustrating!!

is this the only way to do it?
yes. Turn off "contacts" in the icloud settings, but keep the rest of the wanted sync options.
No workaround other then that.

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Hi,
You have 2 solutions:
1 - You can use 2 differents icloud account
2 - You use the same account but you don't sync yours contacts.
You configure that in Settings > icloud
You activate or desactivate what you want.
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The contacts on my phone are what I need and use and what I need to back up. I want these contacts on my iCloud, my Pad, and my MacBook Pro. How do I do this? I have connected my iPhone with iCloud, same with my iPad but all my contacts are messed up and out of date. So I have some contacts on my iPhone that are not in iCloud and hence not on my iPad or my MacBook. I am worried that when I get my new phone all of them will be gone as my Phone is only where everything is stored.
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1. What model iPhone? running what iOS?
2. Are you running Leopard 10.5.8?
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Hi, i updated to ios 8
I have several devices under my apple id account. 2 iPhones (me and my wife ). 2 iPads also me and my wife and my iMac
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Hans

Hans Oranje wrote:
The problem is that I can not verify her id on message and on Facetime
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I believe it happens in the download app for Y Mail.
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however after the account is set up, the merge contacts does not add to your contact list when checking for email.
Yahoo should of had this feature set to off and allowed the user to turn it on if they desired.

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