MY contacts disappear when my wife deletes them on HER phone
Since upgrading our 3 iphone3gs to ios 5 our contacts have been screwy. While some are complaining they have lost their contacts, ours disappear from other phones when deleted on another phone.
For example, after upgrading I noticed I had my wife and daughters contacts on my phone. So I deleted them and the same contacts deleted from their phone. I have done all of the recommended fixes turning icloud on and off, resyncing, sending a text message and changing a contact name, even restoring my phone and while my wife and daughters contacts reappear, mine don't.
Is the problem that all 3 phones are under my Apple ID or that I have merged them all to icloud. I simply want to delete their contacts off my phone and vice versa and have only mine show in contact list.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
John
Yes, the problem is that you have all 3 phones under the same Apple ID, and possibly you probably use the same computer to sync the 3 phones?
Try the following, might help:
1. Creating different Apple IDs that would use the different phones.
2. Uncheck 'Sync Contacts' option in iTunes, then try Step 3.
3. On the phone: Go to Contacts -> Groups (Top Right Corner) - see if contacts are synced with a particular email account, and try changing it to another, or use the 'On My iPhone' option if you have manually entered contacts into your phone.
Hope this helps.
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