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Oct 13, 2014 2:16 AM in response to maskgascby duckndilly,I'm still bemused by 'my info'
On our two iphones with separate Apple ID's but sharing my iCloud contacts with my hubby, sometimes my contacts show me as me and sometimes I'm him!!! Happens on both phones and they are clearly fighting one another!
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Oct 18, 2014 9:25 AM in response to zman999by midjew,HERE IS THE SOLUTION:
1) Go to System Preferences on Mac
2) Click on Internet Accounts
3) Press the + to add a new account
4) Add a new iCloud account. So now add different iCloud accounts from other family members
5) Once added under Settings choose to ONLY sync Contacts.
BOOM and DONE!!!!
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Oct 21, 2014 6:09 AM in response to david.menzelby dereinsameschuetze,totally does... set up family sharing and ALL my contacts - company, alumni, friends... were added to every family members co tact list... ALL my bookmrks and reading list (and those of my family members) were combined...
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Oct 29, 2014 2:55 PM in response to midjewby D Bauguess,In your last step, on which device is Settings? Where is it located?
Thank you.
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Nov 5, 2014 4:49 AM in response to dereinsameschuetzeby Wyndward,Thank you. My family also shares a common set of contacts that my wife and I keep up to date. This technique for sharing the contacts until Apple develops Family Share further is a life saver.
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Nov 12, 2014 9:39 PM in response to zman999by MrCarey30,Hey, so I just fixed this problem on my wife's phone.
I signed out of her newly created account, and signed back in to the one we shared on all of our devices. Once I did that, all of the contacts were restored.
I signed out of the old one, and elected to keep all contacts on the iPhone.
Sign back into the newly created Apple ID and elect to Merge everything.
You'll now have all of your contacts and have separate accounts.
Hope this helps!
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Dec 31, 2014 9:15 AM in response to midjewby brd1207,I have setup the internet account but in contacts on my Imac I see the new account but no contacts associated with it.
How do I ensure new contacts are associated with this sharing account?
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Jan 14, 2015 8:45 PM in response to brd1207by agsmith87,Well I've read all three pages of this thread and I'm confused as to why there's still a problem. A few people have suggested what I'm about to say, in one form or another - just to be clear.
First, iTunes and iCloud are separate. They don't have to be (you can use the same ID if you want) but they are. Perhaps Family Sharing (FS) has added some confusion into all of these. Think about this way: FS shares purchases but also creates a few links (shared Calendar, Reminders) in iCloud. Please note: all the FS in iCloud was available before FS - FS has simply setup a few links for you.
To get shared Contacts (and Notes too for that matter):
1) Make an (or use current) Apple ID for every person who is sharing the contacts (i.e. if there are three people, you'll need three accounts).
2) Make an additional Apple ID for everyone to share.
3) Set up iCloud on everyone's iPads, iPhones and Macs with their own Apple ID (made in step 1). Do not turn on contacts for these accounts but everyone else is fine.
4) Add the additional Apple ID (made in step 2) to every device that's sharing the contacts. Turn on ONLY contacts (and notes, if you're sharing them too).
*I think the critical step in all of this, is to sign into the devices with each person's personal account FIRST. Then sign into the additional account.*
Voila. You have shared contacts, and your own 'everything else'.
Family Sharing can ALSO be used. Set it up just like normal: one Apple ID is the main one, another is an adult, another is a kid or whatever. Obviously, your additional account has nothing to do with Family Sharing so don't add it in anywhere.
IF YOU HAVE ALL YOUR CONTACTS IN A PERSONAL ACCOUNT
For example, Adult A has all the contacts in their iCloud account and, previously, put their account on everyone's devices.
This is easily fixed. It's a matter of getting all the contacts over to the new account (created in step 2). Do what MrCarey30 suggested, if you're doing this in iOS or, even easier, do it in OS X - select all contacts, click export - then add them back into the new account. You can be signed into both if you like or you can be signed into one, sign out, then sign into the other then import. Up to you. I'd delete all the contacts from the old account, so there's never any duplicates - but seeing as you've got contacts turned off for that account, you won't see them anyway.
By the way, I have my system setup this way, with my wife. No problems with the My Info part - Siri works flawlessly for both of us. Furthermore, you can still have your own contacts (i.e. not share them), if you want. Just turn them on in settings.
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Jan 14, 2015 9:57 PM in response to agsmith87by dearborns,How do you add a second account to a mac?
I have gone to preferences - Iclound and cannot figure it out.
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Jan 14, 2015 10:00 PM in response to dearbornsby agsmith87,System Preference > Internet Accounts > iCloud
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Jan 26, 2015 9:10 AM in response to agsmith87by HF2014,Well I've read all three pages of this thread and I'm confused as to why there's still a problem. A few people have suggested what I'm about to say, in one form or another - just to be clear.
Just to be clear, what you describe has worked exactly as you describe.. in the past. I've setup several hundred iPhones with a secondary iCloud account without an issue. It worked just as you described. The My Info only changed after an IOS update, and was easily corrected and changed back. It no longer works that way.
I am currently setting up 260 new iPhone 6's and the secondary iCloud account appears to work. Until you notice that your name is wrong and change it, and it changes someone else's My Info on their phone, so they change it, and it changes everyone else's phone, and they change it, ad nauseam. It does not hold the information you select, and changes automatically to whoever updated it last. I have about 150 phones doing this now.
I tried putting an individual contact on the personal icloud, and selecting that as My Info. It still changes when someone selects My Info on a different phone. I tried selecting My Info from an Exchange account contact, but the phone still swaps info when a different phone changes their My Info. It appears I'll have to share a gmail or exchange account to stop this madness from continuing.
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Jan 26, 2015 9:54 AM in response to HF2014by Chris CA,HF2014 wrote:
I am currently setting up 260 new iPhone 6's and the secondary iCloud account appears to work. Until you notice that your name is wrong and change it, and it changes someone else's My Info on their phone, so they change it, and it changes everyone else's phone, and they change it, ad nauseam.
Because they are changing the same contact that everyone uses.
They are not changing contact in their own list.
Same with a shared calendar.If you are Bob and Mary has shared her calendar, when you edit an item in Mary's calendar on your iDevice, it gets changed on Mary's iDevice.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:17 AM in response to HF2014by parishpete,it's disappointing to find that just being a secondary account can trip up 'my info'. We thought that it was restricted to just sharing contacts which are of course owned by one account only. Unless Apple separate 'me' data from all other accounts & contacts, the battle of ownership for that data will just go on ad infinitum where any kind of sharing takes place.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:37 AM in response to Chris CAby HF2014,Because they are changing the same contact that everyone uses.
They are not changing contact in their own list.
They are not editing any contacts. They are selecting Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - Contacts section has "My Info". Select that, it pulls up your contact list. No matter what you select, it will change automatically when the next person does this same thing. Your 'My Info' will not stay with your own info. It will show on your contact list with a 'Me' next to it.
I already tried selecting 'My Info' from the personal contact list, it still changes. I tried selecting 'My Info' from an Exchange list, it still changes. So no, its not that they are selecting from the 'wrong list'. Any list is apparently the wrong list as long as you have a shared secondary iCloud account on the device.
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Jan 26, 2015 12:54 PM in response to HF2014by agsmith87,HF2014 wrote:
I am currently setting up 260 new iPhone 6's and the secondary iCloud account appears to work. Until you notice that your name is wrong and change it, and it changes someone else's My Info on their phone, so they change it, and it changes everyone else's phone, and they change it, ad nauseam. It does not hold the information you select, and changes automatically to whoever updated it last. I have about 150 phones doing this now.
Well I'm not sure what the difference is. Over only two iPhones (6) and two iPads Airs (1 & 2), everything works fine - which I did mention in my first post. The My Info stays as me for me, and stays as my wife for my wife. Both the contacts cards for the respective My Info sections were selected from the shared contact list. And they still do not change. Might I add too, that the whole "change back after an iOS update" never happens for me so I think something is different for us.
I hope you figure out your problem. But in the meantime, if someone comes across this thread with the same problem, I can confirm that the suggestion I made above works perfect (no, not "ok" - perfect) on the latest iPhone 6 and latest iPad Air 2...