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When you delete a contact, it permanently deletes it from your device. If you delete a contact from your email account, you also permanently delete the contact from all devices signed into that email account.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to sync my iPhone contacts with iCloud. There is one entry that has been on my phone for a month, and it still isn't showing in Contacts on iCloud, and several contacts that I just entered on my phone that I'd REALLY like to be on iCloud NOW. How do I sync NOW, and why isn't everything getting copied from my iPhone to iCloud? I am at iOS 15.6.
Be sure to also check if your contacts are currently synced via a third-party account on the device. This can be found in Settings > Contacts > Accounts. If you're looking to sync the contact from the third-party account, follow the "Add Contacts from third-party accounts" section's steps from the above link.
Got it. Thanks for still checking that setting. Also make sure that both the date and time settings are correct on your iPhone by following the steps from If you can't change the time or time zone on your Apple device - Apple Support
Thanks for that information. Let's check the settings for Contacts on your iPhone. Go to Settings > Contacts > Fetch New Data, and make sure that "Push" is set to On. On that same page, make sure that iCloud is set to "Fetch", and below that Fetch is set to "Automatically". Let us know the outcome, and we can go from there if needed.
In Settings > Contacts > Accounts > Fetch New Data, "Push" is on, as is Automatic Fetch. However, iCloud was not set to Fetch. Now it is. But this is about getting my iPhone contacts UP to iCloud. The iPhone isn't "Fetch"ing anything. Maybe I haven't waited long enough, but I don't see any change in my iCloud contacts.
But if I uncheck "All Gmail" the only contacts displayed on the iPhone is the subset of contacts that managed to make it to iCloud. Um, does that mean that the new contacts I added on my iPhone that did not make it to iCloud were somehow not pointed to iCloud, but rather to Gmail?
That is, when I uncheck "All Gmail", and check "All iCloud", the only contacts displayed on my phone are those that DID make it to iCloud. The contacts that did not get uploaded to iCloud are somehow in the "All Gmail" group.
What were they thinking! The new contact display is both jarring and difficult to read. The choice of font size and brightness/contrast of different elements is terrible. I don't have pictures for most of my contacts, and probably never will, and yet this display design seems to assume that is the normal usage.
This grey on the contact list is awful. Why did it have to be changed? Not to be able to change all contacts to same color at one time is ridiculous! I hate grey and I do not like this change. It was not needed nor helpful. Please put it the way it was or give the coloring on main screen.
When you are creating the contact, since you have On the iPhone and the Google contacts, you need to make sure what group you are adding the contact to. If you are adding it to the phone group, it doesn't sync to Google. That also explains why when you remove the Gmail account, all of the Google contacts delete from the phone, but you still have contacts created on the phone.
I'm not sure, but you can look as you create the contact to make sure it is going where you want it. I do not use Google or sync to more than one place, so mine are all on my device. I sync to my Outlook on the computer, but there is still only one group of contacts. Check in the Settings area for contacts. Since you have more than one group, a default setting may be available. I do not see one on my phone.
yes you can change the default contact account to gmail. which is a wise thing to do becuase by using gmail as the central repository of all your contacts you can access those contacts using any of your devices and email clients. on your iphone choose settings>mail.contacts, calendars>scroll way down to Contacts (it's on a gray background) and below that select >Default Account>you will see On my iphone And the name of your gmail account>select your gmail account. a tick mark appears. Now everytime you create a contact on your iphone it will automatically sync to your gmail account. and visa versa. And the same goes for deleting a contact.
Go to Contacts. Upper Left hand corner, tap "Groups". You may have more than one account apart from your iCloud account, like Gmail. In this case, it might be that only one account is checked so just check all accounts including your iCloud account & WALA.
I have same problems but in my case I didn't notice even when they call, names appear. Recently not all but some of the contacts I have saved, when I need to retrieve, couldn't found them.I appreciate any help. Thanks
If you are syncing your contacts from your Yahoo account, be advised they have been experiencing server problems over the last week, which could be causing your issue. Mail has been failing to deliver, so I suggest that would cause contact syncing to fail. The "Maybe" that you see has to do with the inability to check against your contacts list. While the contact may appear in a previous thread, since the phone cannot check your contact sync because of a connection failure, or intermittent connection, it cannot verify it. It should correct itself when Yahoo clears up their problems. Check your contacts by going into the Contacts app and then look in the upper left corner to see if you have more than one group of contacts and if you have all groups set to view.
Is it possible that you have more than one group in Contacts? If you open the contacts app, when looking at the list of contacts, have you tried to search for their name, or part of it? Do you see All Contacts listed in the upper left corner of the Contacts App?
Follow the on-screen instructions to connect your Android phone to your mobile and wireless networks. Then, when prompted, put your old iPhone cable to use one last time by plugging the USB-C into your new Android phone and the lightning end into your iPhone. If you're coming from an older iPhone device, you may also need a USB-A to USB-C adapter.
I'd recommend using HubSpot's data sync app for iCloud for this. This will "sync contacts between iCloud and HubSpot without manual data entry or messy, time-consuming imports." When records are created or updated in either app, that information will be automatically shared with the other one.
@AGlemme Hi, I just ran into the same issue... I mistakenly assumed that the "App-specific password" meant your Apple ID password. That is NOT the case.
You have to create a new app-specific password from your Apple account by following the instructions here: Using app-specific passwords (Under 'How to generate an app-specific password')
Once you have created the password, use your same Apple ID username/email and the newly-created app-specific password. Follow the prompts and you should be all set!
Hello! We've finally set up an exchange server for our 2-person business so that we can share contacts. I am wondering what the best practice is for accessing that shared contact file on mobile devices. The outlook app only has mail, calendar and tasks. Do I point the native iphone contact app to the exchange server? Download a different contact app that plays nicely with exchange? Since both of regularly work with the same contacts I'd like to avoid the information living in multiple places so that if it's updated once that new info propagates throughout all devices. Thanks for your advice.
@Michael Tang Thanks. Not sure if that answers my original question. I simply want to access contacts via outlook on mobile devices. We are not using an on-premise exchange server.... 2 person nonprofit! :) Just a garden variety Office 365 business premium subscription.
I have several iDevices that I use: iPad, iPhone and an iPod, all of which sync contacts with iCloud. I am experiencing the phenomenon where I update a contact on my iPhone and instead of syncing the new data to iCloud where the other devices can pick it up, the phone is pulling the old data down from iCloud and over-writing the updates I just made.
For problematic devices it's recommended to remove the account (or just disable Contacts from iCloud in this case). When prompted, choose to delete the local data. After a few minutes enable it again and then be patient everything syncs.
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