family sharing iCloud contacts not showing up on shared devices

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family sharing iCloud contacts not showing up on shared devices

I just turned on Family Sharing for my wife's iPhone and all of our contacts stored on iCloud are not showing up even though iCloud is checked on the Contacts.

Posted on Dec 16, 2015 2:57 PM

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Dec 16, 2015 3:18 PM in response to PFarr

Welcome to the Apple community.

Family sharing doesn't mean that you will share each others contacts etc, although in calendars you should have a Family calendar that you can all see, but you each need to specifically put events into that particular calendar before both of you can see them.

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Dec 16, 2015 3:19 PM in response to PFarr

Here's what I did using this post from 2014 - it seems to be working...

Peter ThomsonOct 6, 2014 9:58 PM Re: iOS 8 family sharing - sync contacts
Re: iOS 8 family sharing - sync contactsin response to zman999

This is what I did.

Have each device log into their individual iCloud account, via iCloud:Settings.
Go to Settings:Mail, Contacts, Calendars and choose this iCloud account. Unselect the Contacts option.
Go back to Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars and choose Add Account.
Enter the iCloud account you will use to share addresses. Select only Contacts to sync.

In my case, we actually choose to sync both our Contacts and Calendars this way.

Hope this works for you, too.

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Dec 16, 2015 3:23 PM in response to PFarr

That doesn't require Family sharing to do that. I'm not sure if you are replying to me or yourself with your last post or whether you have now resolved your problem, perhaps you could update the situation.

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Dec 16, 2015 4:38 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks Winston - I did some more searching and was able to find a solution that works (I included it as a reply to my original question).

Pat

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