Problems sharing contacts with family members

My family (me, wife and 2 daughters) all have iPhones and share a single apple ID.  We want to share music, etc. but would like to manage our contacts separately.  Right now we all see a collective list of contacts.  How do we manage some items like this independently?
Thanks,

Hey there!
You'll want to create a seperate iCloud account for each device in order to keep the contacts seperated.
You'll esentially have to delete the iCloud accounts from each device and choose to keep the info on the iPhone. Then sign in with the newly created apple id for each device that wants their own account and choose to merge the data on the iPhones.

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