zman999

Q: iOS 8 family sharing - sync contacts

Hi, we previously shared one Apple ID across multiple devices in our family. With iOS 8, we enabled family sharing and set everyone up with their own Apple ID. Everything seems to be working fine now except for one problem. Our contacts were previously shared via iCloud on all devices, but that doesn't seem to be happening now. Am I missing a step to enable contact syncing?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 12:52 PM

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  • by John45,

    John45 John45 Nov 5, 2015 4:51 PM in response to joyfromburr ridge
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    Nov 5, 2015 4:51 PM in response to joyfromburr ridge

    Hi! This will be great if both my wife and I can add to, delete and edit my calendars and contacts. Before my wife creates her own Apple ID/iCloud account, can you tell me if that will be possible?

  • by Peter Thomson,

    Peter Thomson Peter Thomson Nov 5, 2015 5:09 PM in response to John45
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    Nov 5, 2015 5:09 PM in response to John45

    If you use the same iCloud account, you can't use Find My Friends. Here is what my family does, and it has worked for us.

     

    Everyone has their own iCloud account. For apps and music, the family is connected via Family sharing to my account. We use the family calendar to share family events.

     

    My wife turned off Calendar and Contacts on her iCloud.

     

    She then added my iCloud account and turned on only Contacts and Calendar. This lets us share contacts and calendars, and we can fully edit the same info. The only problem is the glitch with the "My Card" as mentioned in earlier posts. My wife's phone thinks she is me. If she sets "My Card" to herself, my phone will also switch. (Well, this was an issue before. I haven't checked after the latest OS release. And my wife doesn't care if her phone thinks she is me.)

     

    Best wishes.

  • by duckndilly,

    duckndilly duckndilly Nov 6, 2015 5:52 AM in response to Peter Thomson
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    Nov 6, 2015 5:52 AM in response to Peter Thomson

    We had the same 'Me' issue with Apple ID's.

    the solution was pretty straightforward.

    we set up a dummy Apple ID which contains all our contacts bar ourselves.

    Each individual family member has only themselves and the other family sharing members in their own Apple contacts, the main bulk of contacts populate from adding the dummy account as cloud contacts only.

    everyone's own device will always recognise them as 'me' and all the shared contacts will be available to everyone.

    Calendar sharing was by one individual and shares to the dummy account as well. this was only done to get both contacts and calendar shares in MS outlook on a windows PC.

     

    hope that helps

  • by leann128,

    leann128 leann128 Jan 6, 2016 9:38 AM in response to aprusso
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    Jan 6, 2016 9:38 AM in response to aprusso

    DITTO!!!! 

     

    Fix contact sharing

  • by David Hardman,

    David Hardman David Hardman Jul 4, 2016 2:17 AM in response to zman999
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    Jul 4, 2016 2:17 AM in response to zman999

    Sharing one iCloud account no longer works well. iCloud does much more than it used to (like keychain) and now causes all sorts of problems if you make all your devices have the same primary account to share contacts.

     

    gmail seems to be the only solution but not an ideal solution.

  • by thetaxman,

    thetaxman thetaxman Aug 9, 2016 12:46 PM in response to maskgasc
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    Aug 9, 2016 12:46 PM in response to maskgasc

    Brilliant! Thank you. This worked perfectly, and took only a few seconds to do. Well done. I chose to select Calendars too, and those all shared beautifully too.

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