Is there a way of having 2 iPhones on one iTunes account and not share phone contacts

Got my wife an iPhone and would like to share one iTunes account but is there a way of not sharing our contact lists, mine is full of work numbers and dont want to fill up her phone with them!!
Many thanks

Hamishanimal wrote:
Got my wife an iPhone and would like to share one iTunes account
Why?
Much simpler if you each have your own iTunes account with yoru own data

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1. If you manually backup your wife's phone before you sync for the first time to the laptop, you can save all data and settings of the phone and restore from that backup again after the initial sync.
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Set up the same iTunes account on the laptop, disable autosync in iTunes/Settings/Devices.
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