3 seperate apple ids but my contacts going to the other phones

Angelique200 wrote:

Hi

i set up sons iPhones with their own Apple IDs.

my entire contact list has pulled through to both of their phones. How has this happened with seperate ICloud accounts ?

This happens because the same Apple ID was used for iCloud, and not the intended three separate Apple IDs.

Angelique200 wrote:

Hi

I don’t really understand the reply.

Each have a seperate iCloud and Apple ID. Is it still possible that it’s linked to my one for contacts ?

we Do have family sharing switched on.

While establishing this configuration, you seemingly logged in with the “Angelique200” Apple ID associated with the contacts you don’t want to share, and then didn’t reset the device to clear previous data, or otherwise connected and shared and loaded the contacts for the “Angelique200” Apple ID and then transitioned to the intended “scion” Apple ID.

When you transition an iPhone or iPad or Mac among Apple ID accounts and with (or without) transitioning the associated iCloud data and locally-cached data, you either reset the local device, or usually end up merging the locally cached and iCloud contacts data.

Here is the reset sequence: What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Family Sharing is not related to this particular configuration issue, as that doesn’t share contacts data.

Short answer: reset the iPhone, log in with the “scion” Apple ID, and have at.

If the contacts data has already been merged among users, there’s no good automatic way to un-merge that. You might be able to restore an iCloud backup of the contents, or the iCloud contents data alone, if that is available from prior to the merge.