My 2 Iphone5 contact lists got sync automatically

Recently I bought 2 iphones one for me and the other for my wife. I was an iphone4 user, so I restored everything from my iphone4 to iphone5 via itunes. At the same time, I also restored my iphone4 information to my wife iphone5. Then I renamed her iphone5 in a different name. She then deleted her contact list in her iphone5, but everything she did was synced on my iphone5 automatically. Simply, my iphone5 contact list was deleted.
How can I maintain 2 different lists on 2 different iphones?

Set up different iCloud accounts with different IDs on each phone to keep you contacts and other iCloud data separate. Continue to share the same ID on both phones for iTunes and App stores (it does not need to be the same ID as the one used for iCloud.)

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iTunes only keeps one backup, every new backup replaces the old one, only backups used to restore from are not overwritten and marked with a time stamp.
If you can't find any other backup in iTunes/Edit/Preferences/Devices, your contact info's are gone. Only if you included the backup folder in your computer backup routine, you would be able to restore the old backup folder containing the latest backup at that time.
The location of the backup folder is described in this article: iPhone and iPod touch: About backups

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Setting up and troubleshooting Mail
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/assistant/mail/
iPad Mail
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/mail/
Try this first - 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.)
Or this - Delete the account in Mail and then set it up again. Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Accounts Tap on the Account, then on the red button that says Remove Account.
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
It's a bit difficult to understand your situation...lacking any punctuation (save for the ? at the end), parsing your post into useful information is difficult. I think that you are trying to switch from one device to a new one, and are having some difficulties with the Contact List -- exactly what those difficulties are, I'm not quite able to understand from your post.
The simplest method to switch devices is via the Device Switch Wizard:
KB23677 How to switch devices using BlackBerry Desktop Software
Beyond that, if you are having trouble with only the Contacts, and are using one method, then perhaps trying another method might be useful. I think you are trying to use backup/restore, but then you also say "synchronized", which is a different function, so I'm really unclear as to what method you are using and what issues you are having. Nevertheless, here's another method you could attempt:
KB24488 How to export contacts from a BlackBerry smartphone using BlackBerry Desktop Software 6
Otherwise, please do try to post again, but try please to use sentence structure and punctuation so that we can have a chance to understand your situation. Understanding your situation is, as with all communications, the first step in being able to help you.
Good luck and let us know!
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On an iPhone 5s, how do you recover contacts that some how vanished from the contact list?
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To transfer your data and settings to a new device see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109. You can also use an app like My Contacts Backup to back up the contacts on your phone as attachment to an email that you send to yourself. If you need to, you can later open this email on your new phone and tap the attachment to import your contacts.

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Address Book/Contacts/Google/iPhone Sync = Tons of Duplicates?

Hi, folks - I'm syncing my contacts with Google, using the following:
1. iPhone: Google Sync for Calendars & Contacts using Microsoft Exchange
2. Macbook: Address Book also syncing to Google under Preferences.
This setup is creating tons of duplicate contacts each day. It's usually the same handful of contacts that get duplicated dozens and dozens of times throughout the day, bloating my few hundred contacts into thousands of entries.
I'm guessing that the set-up below is creating some kind of infinite loop for certain items, and doubles them every time it tries to sync. But I can't find any common characteristics for the items that keep duplicating.
I'm sure the easiest fix would be to turn off option 2, and stop trying to keep my Macbook's local contact list in sync. But that's my way of "backing up" incase my Google account ever gets hosed for any reason.
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Have the same problem.
Today, as usual did a sync and was very pleased to find that almost all my contacts on IPhone were duplicated. Weird, not all of them.
The problem is that I have to double check every contact, because the duplication was a bit...weird also. Not all duplicates are the same. One might contain all info about a contact and another one might have only one phone number.
So, this is a BIG problem.
I tried deleting all contacts from my Outlook database and sync.
Oh, the joy of having all your IPhone contacts DELETED without even a warning.
Restored a backup and got all my Contacts back, duplicated of course.
Believe me, I am DEAD AFRAID of using ITunes again. Maybe for the ones that did the programing of it might have some logic, but for me, as well as for many Apple customers with the same problem (and more) I think NOT.
This piece of software must have been written on some crazy after party weekend, because I cannot understand how such a big name like Apple can release such a badly written application.
Do we have an alternative to ITunes?
I am using it for backing up my contacts, because I tend to loose my phone all the time
I would use it for purchasing some interesting software from the store, but, most of the software I like...are not in my country's store :)) (Google Earth, The Discovery software, etc). Way to go!
I do remember Nokia and their little application. So easy to do anything. Apple, weak up!!!
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You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3998
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I am trying to sync an iphone4 with outlook 2010 through itunes.
Sync is enabled for contacts, calendars and notes, through outlook.
I have selected merge for content when I first clicked apply and I have selected none of the replace options, as all the contacts currently reside on the iphone and not on outlook and I would like them to be first transfered from the phone.
I have also made sure that the itunes add-in is enabled in outlook, and that no other add-ins are enabled.
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Try checking to see if you are inadvertently syncing elsewhere -- this just got me recently. Many mail services (Yahoo in my case) now offer contacts, calendar, and notes in addition to email. If you opted for all those services when you connected your iPhone to your mail provider you could be syncing to that contacts list, while syncing your calendar to your Outlook. Best place to look would be in settings to see if you selected the address book. Also you canh try this test: Create a bogus contact on your iPhone and then go into webmail on your computer and see if it's landing in that address book. I had tyhis kind of situation for a while and it was driving me absolutely crazy until I figured out why the sync seemed to be partial. Good Luck!

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