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tressie261
User level: Level 1 (5 points)

New iPhone is still connected to my old phone

I just upgrade my phone from iPhone 6 to iPhone 11. My son is using my old phone with no SIM card. He deleted some contacts on the iPhone 6 and they were deleted on my new phone. How do i separate them do when He doesn’t anything on the 6 it doesn’t do it on my phone?

Posted on Nov 30, 2019 7:38 PM

2 replies

SravanKrA
User level: Level 10 (454,138 points)

Dec 1, 2019 3:42 AM in response to tressie261

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

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/250904552