When my wife changes contacts on her phone it changes contacts on my phone and vice versa

When my wife or I make changes to our contacts on iphone 4 and 5 it changes the other ones contacts.

On one of your devices, go to Settings > iCloud. Look at the account. Whose Apple ID is there?
For which ever of you who is the Apple ID account holder, do nothing.
On the other person's iPhone, go to Settings > iCloud.
Delete the iCloud account, and choose to 'Keep on iPhone' when prompted.
Then, use a different Apple ID for iCloud on your device.
Both of your devices are using the same Apple ID under iCloud (or, alternatively, possibly the same email account on the device) for syncing contacts. When you do this, the system assumes that the same person is using both devices, and wants to sync Contacts across multiple devices.

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I cannot agree more with your comments! What a way to frustrate your customers!
I have been having an issue with iCloud on Mac where it kept asking me for my password and sometimes would, sometimes would not continue to access my iCloud mail. Today it just refused to connect to iCloud mail.
I looked in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars in my MacBook Pro settings and discovered that 2 iCloud accounts were present. One with my original Apple ID (a gmail address) and a second with my new iCloud email ( an @me.com address). Having deleted the second account, using the new @me.com address everything is working fine.
So from my viewpoint when I moved over to iCloud I was asked to sign in with my Apple ID (the gmail address) then to create an @me.com address. However, as far as I can see all sign ins to the new @me.com account on Macbook, iPhone and iPad need to be done through the old Apple ID (the gmail address). Is that confusing and just plain crazy???
Further, after creating the new @me.com address I soon found out that this is apparently now forever bound to my old Apple ID and cannot be changed. I mean why can't I delete the iCloud account and start anew with a different @me.com address??? Also, as everybody using iCloud must create an @me.com address why on earth can I not get rid of my old gmail address and have my entire Apple ID accessed through the new @me.com address? Creating a whole new Apple ID will not solve this as we are unable to transfer purchases between accounts.
Apple products are great IMHO, but they do seem to not think things through in a very big way sometimes......

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I have seen this posted before without resolution on one of the old operating systems. Does anyone have a solution to this. How to we get Apple to fix this if there is no solution?

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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.

I got my ipod, and my wife, her iphone. I downloaded an app and use it in my itouch, but when my wife download it in her iphone, and the phone ask her to update it, it asks for my apple ID, but she has her own apple ID, how do we avoid this?

I got my ipod, and my wife, her iphone. I downloaded an app and use it in my itouch, but when my wife download it in her iphone, and the phone ask her to update it, it asks for my apple ID, but she has her own apple ID, how do we avoid this?

Hi peacemakerco,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can use the steps in this article to sign in on the iPhone with the right Apple ID:
iOS: Changing the signed-in iTunes Store Apple ID account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
Best,
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I just got 2 new iphone 4 (verizon) i have a issue, i have 2 itunes account 2 phone seperate names and emails. but when i update or sync my phone it copys my wife stuff on to my phone and vice versa.

hello
i need some help.
well you see up above where i have 2 iphone 2 different names for the phones and 2 different accounts with 1 itunes on widows 7.
my problem is when i update or sync my phone it grabs all her info and apps ect. and vice versa when she does it to. is there any way that i can stop this from happing again?
1 more thing this happens just on her phone when she goes to download a app for some reason my email is on her phone, we have to sign out from her phone and sign back in and put her email in any thoughts on this?

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TS4185 I can FaceTime my wife from my iPad , but she always receives my call on her iPhone( and vice versa). How can I call iPad to iPad?

receives my call on her iPhone( and vice versa). How can I call iPad to iPad?

Charlie,
You must have a separate and individual id for each of your devices. For her iphone it's the telephone number. For each ipad, you must have a separate and individual id also. The ipad id's must be an e-mail address. You cannot use the same e-mail address for both i pads, and you can not use the email address that you use for Face time log in. The folks I know, create multiple e-mail accounts on Yahoo to facilitate this requirement. These individual phone numbers and e-mail addresses should be put into your calling lists for your Facetime accounts.
So if you want to call your wife's i-pad you need to have the mail address associated with it on your ipad account and visa-versa. I guess you guys will need to make sure you know who's carrying which device...This modern electronic world can be a circus at times, even though it has its rewards.

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On the iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Select the Apple ID at the top and sign out. Sign in with the new Apple ID.
Make sure the same email address is not available below You can be reached by iMessage at on each iPhone.

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It's my understanding that an iPhone can only sync with one computer. You need to choose one computer. Sounds like it syncs at work, but not at home. If you want to just sync it at home, then you have to make sure the home computer has all the info that you want on it, like music etc. Then you have to deauthorize the work computer for it to sync at home. When you connect it will ask if you want to set up as a new iPhone or restore from backup. If you don't have a backup on the home computer then either way you will be wiped clean. So any photos, contacts, notes etc you have will be erased. You would need to backup or copy your photos from your iPhone. When you connect it to your home computer, it will give you that popup message to open your iPhone files. Then you can copy those photos and save them onto your computer and sync them back in through iTunes.
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This isn't being caused by your iCloud account. It's caused by using use the same Apple ID for iMessage. To fix this you have two choices:
On one of the phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with a different ID (so both phones are using a different ID for iMessage). Note: you can still share the same ID for purchasing in Settings>iTunes & App Stores; or
On both phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and uncheck the email address(es) shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at". Also uncheck anyone else's phone number, if present.

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