Ios 5 merged contact information

my husband and both have the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2 after I downloaded the ios5 onto his iPad 2 our contacts merged. We have our ITunes accounts on separate computers as well.

Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
If you have an iPad 1, the max iOS is 5.1.1. For newer iPads, the current iOS is 6.1. The Settings>General>Software Update only appears if you have iOS 5.0 or higher currently installed.
iOS 5: Updating your device to iOS 5 or Later
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4972
How to install iOS 6
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010061/hands-on-with-ios-6-installation.html
iOS: How to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4623
If you are currently running an iOS lower than 5.0, connect the iPad to the computer, open iTunes. Then select the iPad under the Devices heading on the left, click on the Summary tab and then click on Check for Update.
Tip - If connected to your computer, you may need to disable your firewall and anitvirus software temporarily. Then download and install the iOS update. Be sure and backup your iPad before the iOS update. After you update an iPad (except iPad 1) to iOS 6.x, the next update can be installed via wifi (i.e., not connected to your computer).
 Cheers, Tom

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I have a number of clients who have this issue since the iOS6 update (as do I on my personal iPhone). These are the steps I took. The combination is that they were using iCloud / iPhone with their contacts.
Log into www.icloud.com and see if you have any duplicatesI had no duplicates here
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I finally found out a workaround:
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Hi,
If you have duplicate contacts or you want to merge contacts on your iPhone,
There is a cool, easy to use, iPhone app for erasing or merging data of duplicates and similar contacts:
http://itunes.apple.com/il/app/contact-merger/id457827019?mt=8
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If you have synced your contacts to iCloud and are going to use the same ID they should download to your iPod when you turn iCloud syncing on.
I use Google Sync and keep all my contact there but the end result should be pretty much the same. If you have backed all your information up to iCloud it should sync down to your iPod. You should actually be able to check it out if your iPod is running a current version of iOS. Just go into settings and turn on iCloud syncing for the features you want to upload to the cloud.
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Try linking cards:
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Contact 3: Something else that's also John A
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You shuld be syncing everything with your comptuer regualrly. Have you failed to do this?
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Unable to Merge Contacts between iPhone4 and Outlook

I am using Outlook 2007. I typically update contact information on my iPhone since it's always with me. I did this with my iPhone 3GS and did not notice any problems syncing. I cleaned up my address book, removing any duplicates, in Outlook. Not sure if it's the iPhone4 or version of itunes, but when I sync my contacts I'm not given the option to "merge" data. The sync seems to respond in one of two ways. 1) Overwriting my updated contact information on the iPhone4.
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When syncing iPhone contacts with a supported address book application on your computer the first time - if your iPhone already includes at least one contact and the same with the supported address book application on your computer, you are provided a merge prompt with the first sync for this data. After the initial merge in this situation, the sync process for this data should be a bidirectional or true sync process between your iPhone contacts and the supported address book application on your computer. There won't be another merge prompt and there shouldn't need to be.
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Auto-detect Contact Information in emails

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jmc1918,
Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action.
All the best,
Allen

I found an error when I changed the contact information.

I found an error when I changed the contact information.
Yesterday, I imported all my contact information from my old phone to my brand new iPhone 4S at an AT&T store. Everything looked fine, but all the first names and the last names were switched. So, I had to correct all contact information manually again. It was so ridiculous.
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My iPhone Information
IPhone 4S White 16G
Model: MC924LL
iOS Version: 5.0.1 (9A405)

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