.mac iCloud address causing 'contacts' syncing problems

Hello,
This may have already been addressed here, but if not hopefully this may be helpful.  I have been having many issues syncing contacts to my iPad Air.  The correct contacts are on my Macbook, my iCloud account, and on my iPhone, however they were not syncing correctly to my iPad.  I tried all the usual fixes, i.e. turning iCloud off on my iPad, signing out of iCloud on my iPad and singing back in, etc... to no avail.  Everything BUT contacts was syncing between all my devices.
That is when I noticed that all my devices under settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Accounts listed an 'iCloud' account for mail, contacts, calendars, Safari.  However, my iPad Air listed a .MAC address for these.  If I tried to add an iCloud account, it would say that an iCloud account has already been added to your iPad.  Once I deleted the .Mac account and choose to erase all the information on my iPad, I was able to add a iCloud account back to my iPad.  The account now shows up as an 'iCloud' account and not a '.Mac' account.  Problem solved.  Hope this helps anyone having this issue.
Billy

Did you change it on both phones?  If you are syncing contacts with separate iCloud accounts on both phones, then the only way I can think of that your contacts would be linked is by syncing them both with another external sources, such as an exchange account.  Setting iCloud as the default account for contacts on both phones would cause new contacts to be created in iCloud, and since your iCloud accounts are different on each phone, I don't see how contacts added to the iCloud account on one phone would be seen on the other.
You may need to go to icloud.com and confirm that new contacts added to each phone are added to your separate iCloud accounts, just to confirm that the change to settings is working properly.

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