Contacts in "Groups" not syncing correctly on iPhone/iPad
I am using iCloud to keep my Address Book/Contacts synced between my Mac, iPad and iPhone. For the most part, the service works as advertised, i.e. editing, creating, deleting, etc. across all three devices.
However, although all of my 1000+ contacts can be found on all three devices, only Address Book on the Mac displays my contacts in the correct Group, or in any Group for that matter.
For example, my brother's contact card is in a group called "Family" on Address Book on my Mac. Although the group "Family" also appears on the Contacts app on both of my iOS devices, his contact card is not in the group "Family"! However, if I look through "All Contacts" on either iOS device, his contact card is there; it's just not in the "Family" group where it is supposed to be. The bug is not isolated to this single contact; I have dozens of contacts that are not appearing in any group on either iOS device, yet they appear in the correct group on Address Book on my Mac.
Any ideas how I can fix this bug? I guess I should be thankful that the contact is even there, but if I can't count on iCloud to keep my "Groups" correctly synced, it kind of defeats the purpose of "Groups"...
Bruno
I have a very similar issue across my 3 iCloud synced devices (Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and iPhone 3GS). The contacts themselves are mirrored beautifully across every device, but the groups are syncing erratically.
I have made quite a lot of changes to my groups this afternoon (bith adding/deleting groups and adding/deleting contacts). The changes I have made to the groups themselves show up fine across the three devices, but it is the contacts within them that are a little more ad-hoc! Quite a lot of them show up in the appropriate group on one device, but not on another.
Can anyone shed any light?
Dan
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