Syncing with icloud for 3 devices but two accounts.

We have An Imac. I have an ipad and my husband an iphone. How do we sync to the computer and with i cloud without mixing up our information. When my husband set up his i cloud account and synced his phone, my info and his info came onto his phone.
How do we synd and separate?
Thanks!

You need to have separate user accounts on your Mac, each connected to a different iCloud account. Any one user account can only sync with any one iCloud account.

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