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Why 2 different apple id on 2 iphones syncing contact

Recently i changed my iphone from 6s to 11. I put a new sim card and new apple id on the previous iphone 6s. Unfortunately, when i edit my contacts in my iphone 6s, it will automatically edited my contacts in iphone11 also. And vice versa. Be it delete or changing the names. Why is this happening? It is making these two iphones to have the same contacts. This is really annoying. Im not happy with this. Please help me

Posted on Nov 14, 2019 1:08 AM

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Posted on Nov 14, 2019 1:38 AM

Contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other


  1. How many Contacts account (email client server) you have?
  2. What is your default Contacts Account?
  3. Which email account you are using to store Contacts?


  • See the GIF below for Contacts and Default Account



  • Learn how to add an email account and make it default (Watch the GIF)
  • This example is for Gmail but the process remains same for all Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

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Nov 14, 2019 1:38 AM in response to Qat88

Contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other


  1. How many Contacts account (email client server) you have?
  2. What is your default Contacts Account?
  3. Which email account you are using to store Contacts?


  • See the GIF below for Contacts and Default Account



  • Learn how to add an email account and make it default (Watch the GIF)
  • This example is for Gmail but the process remains same for all Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

Why 2 different apple id on 2 iphones syncing contact

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