HT4489 How do I backup my phone contacts to icloud

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Go to Settings>iCloud on your phone, sign in with your Apple ID to create your iCloud account, then turn Contacts to On.  Your Mac will have to be running OS X Lion (10.7.2) or later.  If it is, go to System Preferences>iCloud, sign into your iCloud account and check Contacts.

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    Apple - iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices.
    http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
    If you need some additional troubleshooting steps the following Knowledge Base article should provide some direction:
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1692
    Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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  • HT204150 Help! My iCloud contacts is fine. The contacts in my iPhone are a mess. Tons of dupes, folks long deleted etc...How do I only have the contacts in iCloud sync to my iphone?

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  • TS4147 How to remove all the duplicated contacts from ICloud?

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