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How do I distinguish text conversations from the same contact with different phone numbers?
I have a contact with whom I share text messages from two different phone numbers. How can I distinguish the two text conversations? Right now, it labels them identically with Full Name at the top, ...
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Invalid response received
I am trying to backup my iphone 6+ to iTunes. It will not let me : could not connect to the iphone ( insert your name of phone) because an invalid response was received from the device.
I have ...
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Phone is off / black when I plug it into charger, only the Apple logo is displayed
My small nephew dropped my iPhone 4s. There is a small crack on the screen. Now the iPhone is off / black and when I plug it into a charger only the Apple logo is displayed.
How can I retrieve my ...
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Cannot add gmail account on iOS
I am trying to add a gmail account to my iPad in order to have contacts, email, and calendar sync. I go to Settings -> Mail -> Accounts -> Add Account and enter my gmail credentials. It accepts the ...
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Default contact group for new contacts in iOS 10
I use an iOS 10 device together with an Exchange server and several contact folders (some of them shared). When I create a new contact on the phone I have no control in which group it goes and this is ...
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"o" before recent phone number, what does it mean
I just realized I got some recent contacts who have an "o" before their phone numbers when I'm adding a recipient after writting a text message, what does it mean?
I'm sure it's the letter "o" and ...
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Spotlight search result for contact does not open found contact in Address Book
When I search for a contact in Spotlight (Cmd-Space), the correct contacts show.
When I select a contact (Enter), Address Book opens, but it has no contact selected. I have to look for the same ...
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Contact card spam
I'm getting contact cards in my Contacts.app that have the Apple logo, a name like "Apple inc." Or "Expedia" and then hundreds of emails listed under that contact.
I suspect this is someone trying to ...
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For iMessage for MacOS, where do the face images come from?
for years I have been using the Contacts app to track addresses. I use Gmail as my main address book so it seems to either copy the Google user avatar to the contact card, or if a matching Facebook ...
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Unify iMessage threads for the same contact
In Messages.app, if a user sends you an iMessage from their phone number, it'll start a thread that's tied to their phone number, and not their identity as a contact. Subsequently, if you start an ...
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How do I remove my email address book from my iPhone 7 contact list?
I just got an iPhone 7. But my email address book has merged with my phone number contact list. How do I remove the email addresses?
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OS X Ukrainian spellcheck
I did some research and still have trouble to find any way to enable Ukrainian language spell check in OS X.
Please advise how to make it happen.
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where is the tooltip gone for misspelled words in ios 10
update: I have check spelling on under settings for both keyboards.
Please try and not misunderstand this question. I'm NOT talking about the white background word suggestions white typing.
I ...
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stop iOS contact importing contact info from mail footers
I recently changed from using the gmail app to the native iOS mail app on my iphone.
Now when i search for a contact in the address book to make a phone call it seems to have pulled in a load of ...
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Can multiple email addresses *with names* be pasted into Mail.app?
I read this post, but it doesn't answer my question:
How to paste multiple email addresss into iPhone mail To: field?
I have noticed that it seems to be possible to include a name along with an ...
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How do I limit Gmails access to my phones contact info, specifically pictures?
I recently added/updated some pictures for my contacts within the built-in phone app. Gmail now somehow has those pictures, 1) how is this possible? 2) How do I limit Gmail's access to my contacts ...
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Default From address in iOS Mail
I have multiple e-mail addresses associated with My Contact on my iPhone (6S, iOS 10.0.2). Some of those e-mail addresses are for accounts on the phone and some are for accounts not on the phone.
If ...
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Contacts app on new iPad incorrectly assumes default country code
After doing a restore from an old iPad to a new iPad, and syncing up iCloud, contacts stored without a country code are displayed incorrectly.
In Australia, the mobile number format is 04xx xxx xxx, ...
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Is there any way to nest groups hierarchically in Apple Contacts?
I have a huge number of contacts. If there is absolutely no better way to organize them than a "flat file" list of groups, I may be forced to export each card individually just so I can have them in ...
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How do I send calls from numbers not in contacts to voicemail?
I'd like to send all of the calls that I receive from numbers that are not in my contacts to voicemail.
Is this possible on ios10?
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Why would an incoming call from one person show up as a different person from my contact name list?
I received a call that showed up as someone from my contact list. When I played the message back it was from a completely different business. This has happened once before... a call came in with the ...
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Highlight the groups a contact is in?
There is a keyboard shortcut for "Contacts.app" which does not appear to be documented anywhere (correct me if I'm wrong) which allows you to highlight the groups that the selected contact is part of, ...
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Names not appearing in Messages on Watch [duplicate]
On Watch, I suddenly see no names for people in Messages. Instead I see the address (e-mail or phone number) they are sending from, even though the senders are in my Contacts and have the addresses ...
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Apple Watch contact names missing after watchOS 3 update
After updating my Apple Watch to watchOS 3 some of my contact names are missing in Messages and Phone etc. Some are showing name, others just show the phone number. The iPhone does show the contact ...
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Why are all my addresses not syncing from iCloud to Mac?
I have a laptop running Sierra and a desktop running Sierra. They both sync with the same account on iCloud.
On my desktop, next to the all iCloud link, there is a lightgrey error indicator:
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saving contacts on iPhone 6 without bringing documents and data
This has always been frustrating. I've restored my iPhone 6 a number of times, but when I bring the contacts from iCloud, the documents and data comes along for the ride. Is there any way to save ...
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Is Siri able to recognise a contact nickname and action on it?
I want to call my girlfriend using Siri. The problem is that her name is Hungarian and I am not able to pronounce it in a way that Siri recognise it and call her. So I thought that I give her a ...
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iPhone Contact Reverts to Old Data After Edit
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 ...
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Cannot delete contact from Address Book
I have a particular contact I cannot delete from Address Book.
There was a birthday event in calendar for a person I didn't recognize, so I tried to delete it. However, Calendar said that I needed ...
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Move all "All on My iPhone" contacts to "All Gmail" group
I have been syncing my iPhone and Gmail contacts for years and consistently run into this problem. Some of my contacts were created in the group "All on My iPhone", always without my knowledge, ...
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iOS: Sync address book with Exchange and contact picture
I sync my iPhone SE with an Exchange server. It retrieves the information and also the contact pictures of the contacts who have them.
With Android, if I added/changed the contact picture by phone, ...
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How do I export iPhone contacts to Excel or CSV file?
Not only would I like to backup my contacts to an external storage drive so I can use it for a mail merge.
How can I export iOS contacts to a spreadsheet?
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How to see Contact Duplicates in Mac OS El Captian
I am using the Mac OS Contacts app version 9.0 (latest).
I only have the option to "Look for duplicates..." which will then allow an auto-merge option if it finds duplicate. What it doesn't do is show ...
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Sync Google Contact Groups with Apple iOS Contact Groups
I am trying to sync my Google Contacts with my iPhone / Apple Contacts. The contacts sync fine, but the groups are not preserved.
In Contacts for Mac, I can create a new group and add contacts to it, ...
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Purge contacts information on Mac
Last month, for a temporary event, I've added a Polish number (+48 prefix) to 800 of my regular contacts using a vCard file.
Now, this event is finished and now I'd like to remove all those ...
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Synchronize Contacts on iPhone and iPad
My iPhone and iPad both are connected on to the same exchange server.
Recently I cleaned up the contacts on my iPad.
On both devices I see revisions but most of the contacts deleted on my iPad are ...
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Is it possible to fully separate corporate from private contact data on a BYOD?
I did some research on the various ways how corporate data can be protected on a user owned device (BYOD) running iOS.
My understanding is that, through mobile device management (MDM), I could create ...
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I want to save my photos from iPad OS9.3.2 to PC Windows
I am planning on giving my iPad to son. I want to reset it for him but, first, I want to offload the photos and contacts onto my PC. I have found that if I use the iCloud, as soon as I shut iCloud ...
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Recover a deleted contact without iCloud backups
When I was deleting contacts on my iPhone yesterday, I mistakenly deleted another one with similar name! Any idea how to get it back? I don't have any backups to iCloud.
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How to show all dates (jubilees) from contacts on calendar
There is 1 calendar, that shows only birthday dates from contacts on iphone/mac OS. But if 1 contact has several dates (e.g. jubilee, birthday of kids or other important dates) that i want to be shown ...
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iOS 9.3.2 - Siri Suggestions Shows Wrong Contacts
I have iOS 9.3.2 but this bug has been bother me for a long time so I'm sure it was present before version 9.3.2. When I'm on the first page of apps on my home screen I swipe to the right to access "...
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ios: restore locally saved contacts
My boss accidentally removed the locally saved contacts from his device.
If I login on his account on iCloud, there's nobody in the contacts app.
On the icloud website I can try to recover contacts, ...
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When I text someone, they receive it from 2 numbers
Whenever I text or iMessage someone, they recieve it from both my number from my old phone that I transferred over, and the number on this phone. How do I make sure only 1 number is in use?
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Display formatting symbols (invisible characters) on webpages and text forms
I am using various online tools for translation and proofreading, and I find that it would be very interesting to be able to display the most common formatting symbols in a browser.
(Spaces and non-...
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Contacts from Address Book Disappeared
I just installed El Capitan (I used to have Lion OS X), and I lost my address book. So I googled about it and I can restore them from my time machine. I did that but the file can't be opened in the ...
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Contacts.app - list all groups a contact is in
Is there a possibility to list all the groups, a contact is in, on the card.
This would make the organisation of my contacts much easier
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Some contacts not displayed when searching for them
I have an iPhone 6 with the newest iOS.
Today a friend sent me a text message. After a few hours I went into
my contacts and tried searching for him but nothing came up even though I have him in ...
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How long does a contact show as "Recent"?
If I send an e-mail to a contact, how long will it show as "recent"?
I wonder because when I look at one of my contacts, it has an option at the bottom of the screen that says "Remove from Recents", ...
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How do I get my address to appear at the top of contacts?
The scenario is that I've moved six times in the last six years, and can never remember my home number. (Let alone the postcode of my PO Box.) So I have to look it up all the time.
In one of the iOS ...
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How do I find a recently added contact?
I recently met someone and got them to type their info into my contacts. I was really busy for a few days and didn't get around to contacting them. Now I can't remember their name. Is there a way ...
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