all phones on family plan are syncing all contacts to all phones. How do we fix this?, all phones on family plan are syncing all contacts to all phones. How do we fix this?

I am experiencing the same problem. Can I keep the Store ID the same and create a separate iCloud ID?

I want to be able to share music and keep the same billing information

I want to have all other contact information on our phones separate.

If I change the store ID on one phone, then it seems like the second phone will lose access to that music

davidpgreen wrote:

Can I keep the Store ID the same and create a separate iCloud ID?

Yes. The Apple ID you use for purchasing (in Settings>Store>Apple ID) does not have to be the same as the one you use for iCloud.

Thank you. I am wondering what to do since me and my daugthers contact info was merged. How do I undo that.

Also, for some reason, my songs went to her, but I did not get her songs. We would like to reverse that also?

I can create separate IDs, but we want to restore everything back to when we were not using icloud which was a couple of days ago.

You're welcome. Undoing the merged contacts will require you to go through and delete the ones that you don't want on each phone (assuming you don't have a clean unmerged list to re-import to the phone). First decide who will keep the existing iCloud account and who will change to a new one. Then, on the phone that is changing, go to Settings>iCloud and turn off syncing for each of the services listed (contacts, etc.). When prompted, choose to keep the data on the phone. Then scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. (This will only delete the account on this phone.) Now set up a new iCloud account on this phone with a different Apple ID and turn on syncing again for contacts, etc. Next go to iCloud.com on your computer, sign into the new account, go to contacts and go through and delete the unwanted contacts. (You'll also have to sign into the other iCloud account and delete the contacts you don't want on the other phone as well.) That should fix the contacts on both phones.

As for the music, connect her phone to iTunes, go to the Summary tab and check "Sync only checked songs and videos" (if it isn't already checked). Then in the music library, uncheck each of the songs that she doesn't want on her phone. When finished, sync her phone and the unwanted songs will be removed. You may also want to take a look at this article on ways to sync multiple iPhones on one computer.

How do you do this is you're dealing with a minor who can't have their own iCloud account until age 13? My wife accidentally merged her account on my daughter's iPhone when updating to iOS 8. Now my daughter and wife are getting all texts intended for my wife and they can't text each other because they are considered a single account. My daughter doesn't want to lose all her photos, notes, etc... during the fix. Thanks!

Yes, if all the phones are using the same iCloud account and syncing Contacts they will be merged. To maintain separation, each phone needs to have its own iCloud account with its own Apple ID.

You're going to need to call Apple support about that. Perhaps they have the ability to delete the child ID and allow you to start over.