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IOS 6 on iPhone 4.

I enabled Facebook integration and it correctly associated many contacts in the address book with Facebook friends. There were some errors (a contact got linked to a person I don't know which not only is not on my friend list, but with which I never even exchanged a single message), but I corrected them manually.

Now, sometimes a person will not use his/her real name on Facebook, or maybe will put a nickname as middle name. Or maybe I decided to label the contact in some different way than the person's real name. Anyway, the point is: sometimes, address book names and Facebook names differs. In all these cases, when the iPhone linked a contact with a Facebook friend, or when I manually linked them, it always displayed the names from Facebook instead of the ones I had been using in the address book. I corrected this, too.

But, here's the problem: when I make such a correction, looks like it works... but then, after a while (even 1-2 days), it reverts back to using the Facebook names instead of the ones I put in.

Is there any way to permanently tell the iPhone "I want this contact to be called such-and-such and please don't mess with it"?

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Exactly the problem I’m having! – doncherry Mar 26 at 2:55
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Same problem here too! This is extremely frustrating, I deactivated the contact sync with Facebook – Matthieu Apr 16 at 12:48
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Use This Name For Unified Card doesn’t work, unfortunately. After a while, the name is reverted back to the Facebook name. There are several apple support threads, and according to some users, Apple is aware of the problem – which does seem to be an outright bug. discussions.apple.com/thread/4395205 – doncherry May 4 at 18:32

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