Why are your family members' contacts showing up in your iPhone or iPad? How can you stop contacts from syncing across devices? Here, we show you how to stop your contacts from showing up on other iOS devices. It's common among families to use the same Apple ID. This means you'll be able to download purchased content onto all of the devices associated with that Apple ID without paying multiple times. However, there are times when this can cause unwanted side effects. One example is that you might find your contacts and calendars appearing on one another's devices. This is thanks to iCloud syncing, which aims to sync all of your information between devices. Apple assumes that every Apple ID is being used by just one individual, and advises that this should always be the case. So the first thing to consider is setting up separate Apple IDs. It is free to