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The reason I want to do this is that I have two Mac accounts for different purposes, one for fun and one for work. However, there are some types of data (e.g., contacts) that I want to share. Moreover, I have a single iPhone used for both work and personal, and I want both sets of data on the phone.
The two Mac OS X accounts are on the same machine. I have no connected either to iCloud as yet until I get a recommendation on what will serve me best.
What do you recommend I do?
Exporting your contacts from an iPhone is very easy: all data about the contact, from name, phone number, picture, email, URL, etc, can be exported as an inclusive vCard bundle from iCloud (or without for example with this app) and sent to someone else by email or text message. (While we’ll focus on sending contacts between iPhones, these vCards are also usable by other iOS devices, Macs, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, and even Blackberry phones, because the exported VCF format is pretty much universally accepted across all platforms as an address book standard.)
You’ll probably want to backup and sync the new iPhone beforehand just in case something goes haywire importing the vCard, however unlikely that is.
Notice the add option tells you how many contacts are stored within the vCard, making it easy to determine if all intended contact information is included. You can also manually select individual contacts from the list if you only wish to import one or two, but for the purpose here we’ll transfer them all over.
I had the same issue with certain contacts and contact groups not coming back from iCloud after a clean Yosemite install.
Today I found out that all this contact groups and contacts are starting to sync once I edited them, e.g. add a contact to a group, update a contacts phone number. For me it worked to edit them in icloud.com (webpage) or on an iOS device.
Best Answer
You could have two iCloud accounts and sync both calendars to your iPhone.
You can achieve the same result if one or both of your accounts is on Yahoo, Gmail or Exchange, without the need to create two iCloud accounts. If having two calendars that you can switch on and off is your concern, you can have one iCloud account, under one user account in your computer, and two calendars, named "Fun" and "Work", and reduce the hassle.