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Queries with phone contacts
I had certain queries with respect to how iOS 6 handles phone contacts:
My phone is synced with Exchange contacts. Does this mean that if I delete the contacts from my phone (local), the same will ...
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Can you sync only a group of contacts from a Mac to an iPhone?
I'm running iOS 6 on an iPhone 3GS. I see that all my contacts from my computer have appeared in the Contacts app on my phone. Now my contacts database on my computer is, to say the least, messy. It ...
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Separating contacts
My wife has a iPhone 5 and a iPad 2. After she received her iPhone 5, I took over using her old iPhone 4 and also have a MacBook. We share one Apple ID, therefore we share all contacts. (I updated ...
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Can the default contact store for Mountain Lion be iCloud?
I'm struggling to manage duplicate contacts and would like to entirely and permanently disable the "On My Mac" category for contacts.
I never, ever want a contact to be added to a Mac and not be ...
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Why do I have duplicate groups in Contacts app on my iPhone?
If I open the Contacts app on my iPhone I get duplicate groups, hence duplicate contacts.
I started to delete one of a duplicate contact but they both gone away.
I thought I could solve this problem ...
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How to sync iCloud contacts with Google?
I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail ...
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How do I mark certain details as old (such as a numbers or addresses) but keep them in Contacts?
I have a lot of friends who move countries and jobs frequently. I want to keep their old email and street addresses their Contact card, but not have it appear in the autofill.
Currently, I have ...
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How to fix contacts being read-only?
My Contacts (accessible via Mail or the Contacts applications) are read-only on my Mac Book Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.2. Contacts reports itself as Version 7.1 (1167).
I have 5 total contacts ...
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Can I create/edit contact groups in iOS?
I have been successful in managing contact groups with OS X's Contacts.app and iCloud.com, but haven't found a way to do this on iOS 6.
Is there a way to manage contact groups on iOS (iPhone, iPad, ...
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IOS 6 - Contacts have disappeared then when I type it in they re-appear temporally
I recently updated my 3Gs to the new iOS 6. However after doing this I've noticed that a lot of my contacts are gone.
However if they call me or I type the number in, they pop up and will stay in my ...
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iCloud sync keeps deleting my information!
Ever since I started syncing my Contacts and Calendars on my Mac with iCloud, I've noticed that stuff sporadically disappears.
I've had to re-add an event to my Calendar 3 times now, and many of my ...
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Contacts not updating through iCloud
I own a Mac running OSX Mountain Lion and an iPhone 4S running iOS 6. For some reason, when setting the Contacts app in my Mac to use iCloud Contact, it is using an older version of the contacts.
I ...
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New contacts stay “on my iphone”
What is the point of the "On My iPhone" contact group when you use iCloud? It is very confusing.
I've added a few contacts lately and I noticed they didn't sync and are part of the "On My iPhone" ...
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How can I manage two different contact lists in iTunes?
I'm trying to work out how to best manage having two separate contacts lists, mine and my husbands, to back-up in iCloud and sync to our individual phones through iTunes?
Could you assist with this?
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Export vCF on a per contact basis
I am using Apple's Contacts app and I have hundreds of entries. Some are no longer valid (name change, incorrect phone, etc)
So I want to export them so I get 1 file per contact. This way, I can ...
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Script to delete all groups in contacts
I would like to have a script to delete all my groups in my Contacts.
Somehow I got a kind of replication bug resulting in over 500 groups.
Delete them one by one is not an option.
Tried this script, ...
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Why were my contacts synced to my mother's iPhone?
I have recently downloaded the new software on my iphone, iOS 6. My mother and my sister also use my Apple ID to download their apps too.
Today my mother downloaded iOS 6 and all of my contacts were ...
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Link Contacts between Facebook and iCloud
I have iOS6 and OSX 10.8. Both bring Facebook integration. It was smart enough for some of my contacts to merge (or "link") them. However for some on my iPhone I manually edited the contact card and ...
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Syncing contacts with iCloud
So I just upgraded to iOS 6 and have two questions:
Is it possible that my updated contacts (using Facebook integration) will uploaded to the cloud so the same info appearing on iPhone will be ...
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Synchronising contacts between iCloud and iOS
I have a problem with my contacts synching between iPhone and iCloud. There is a number of contacts that appears with the tag iCloud in my phone, although they arent on the iCloud website or my ...
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Contacts first and last name order inconsistent between iCloud.com and iPhone
The iCloud.com Contacts interface orders the name fields as following: Last name, First name
On the iPhone, the order is reversed: First name, Last name.
Can this be adjusted so the order matches?
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Recover contacts after deleting from iCloud?
I recently purchased a MacBookPro which I synced to the same iCloud account that my iPhone is synced with. When I did this, the birthdays of all my contacts showed up as a day late on my MacBookPro. ...
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I lost my contacts after separating them into folders in Microsoft outlook windows 7
I separated my contacts from my iCloud account in Microsoft outlook into work contacts and business contacts.
The number of items were shown in each folder showing that they had been transferred to ...
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Keeping contacts on iOS5/iPhone4s
So, I have my iPhone 4S with iOS5. I don't plug it into my computer often (I don't think I plugged it in since I got it), but I did plug it in today and I lost all of my contacts. I don't know if it ...
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Can iCloud synchronize contacts from Windows Mail?
Can I sync my Windows Mail contacts into iCloud?
I don't use Outlook for Windows, only Windows Mail.
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Transfer iPhone contacts to iCloud or Mac
I just got involved into a new project at work, and I added all my colleagues to my iPhone contacts. In the middle of the process I got the idea it would be better to add the contacts to my iCloud.
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Contact syncing is not working for some contacts using iCloud
I've verified that at least some of my contacts are not properly syncing between my iPhone running iOS 5.1 and my Mac running OSX 10.7.3 (both the latest OS versions currently available).
Here, you ...
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iPad Contacts app incorrectly formats telephone numbers
Some time ago my iPad Contacts app has begun an odd behaviour of incorrectly formatting American telephone numbers. Instead of displaying "(415)-123-1234", for example, it displays "41 5123 1234". ...
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Restore my previous iCloud contacts to my iPhone 3GS
Hi - I had my contacts in iCloud & my son in my absence registered his new iPhone on my account (using my password and email address). Now I have his contacts on my iPhone 3GS and have lost all ...
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Duplicates in contacts in iphone
I am using icloud, but always sync my contacts using itunes. Still have a lot of duplicates. How do I get rid of the duplicates
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One Apple ID or Two?
Can someone please help me out? I currently own an iPhone and an iPad and my son has a iPod touch 4th Generation. iCloud works well between them, but my wife is looking to get an iPhone as well. If ...
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How can I add/move icloud contacts to a group?
I see that iCloud can create groups. It appears that other than All Contacts, I only have another group, contacts-other that was created when I imported my addresses (I think via Outlook, which I no ...
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What do the numbers after an invitee's status in iCal mean?
After the text describing the status of an invitee in iCal (in the context menu for the invitee) there is a number. For example I nearly always see numbers like 1.1 or 1.2:
and occasionally I see ...
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Exchange contacts do not appear in iCloud
On my iPad and iPhone I have several email accounts: three Gmail and one Exchange account. I stopped using the Exchange account and tried to remove it from the iPhone, but also all my contacts were ...
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iOS: Newly added contacts get hidden and don't sync to iCloud [closed]
I was facing the issue outlined on this Apple discussion thread, where I had duplicates of every contact on my iPhone -- one in iCloud, and one "Unknown". The thread presents a working solution on how ...
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How can I add a second Twitter account to iOS Contacts/iCloud?
iOS 5 recently added Twitter and Facebook fields for contacts, and this was also incorporated into iCloud. However, it seems that you can only add one Twitter (and Facebook) account per contact, which ...
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Is it possible to only see contacts with phone numbers?
I recently started syncing my iPad and iPhone with iCloud. I selected to merge my contact list into iCloud from both devices. The problem is that, while I use my iPad for my email, I don't use it at ...
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How does one export all contacts from iCloud?
How does one export all contacts from iCloud in some sort of standard format? I would prefer to keep a backup in case my sync goes bad and I'm yet to find a way to export all my contacts. I would hate ...
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Can no longer edit my contacts in iOS 5
I just updated to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4, and now I can not edit my contacts. Where "edit" use to be is no longer there. If I type a new number on the keypad and hit add to existing contact, I can edit ...
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Contacts keep disappearing from iPhone 4 when iCloud is turned on
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS5 yesterday morning, and noticed after the install was complete that the contacts seem to have disappeared completely from my phone after setting the Preference for them to ...
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Will iCloud sync interfere with Gmail Contacts/Calendars sync?
I'm looking to setup with iCloud, and I'm concerned with their desire to sync my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. While I'm fine with the bookmarks, I am legitimately concerned about contacts and ...
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Is it possible to export all my iPhone contacts to my iPad 2?
Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?
