I accidently deleted all contacts in a iphone

when I try to restore them with a back-upcopy, I see them for a moment and then they disappear. What am I doing wrong?

Did you do a full back-up on cloud and iTunes? try to restart your phone and do it again.

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How can I delete all contacts on an iphone 4 or ipad mini 2

Open a contact. Click "Edit". Scroll to the bottom. Choose "Delete contact". Repeat.

How do I delete all contacts in my iphone?

After trying to sync my secondary iphone with icloud I find that I have an enormorse amount of duplications. I would like to delete all contacts from the iphone and sync with what I have on my mac. I would prefer not to do a complete reset on the iphone for this will also create a lot of work. Does anyone have any thought as to how I might accopmlish this?

I believe scottishroyalty is mistaken. As far as I know there are no contacts stored within iTunes. He must mean that he deleted duplicate contacts within the Contacts app on his computer.
The issue I have with sberman's solution is that after using that method to delete all contacts on your iPhone, when you turn the Contacts switch back to "ON" in your phone's iCloud settings all the old contacts are put back on your phone and you're right back where you started.
I posted a very detailed account of my issue here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17047143#post17047143
If anyone knows how to delete old/unwated contacts from your iPhone and from iCloud and have them remain deleted, yet continue to have iCloud sync with the iPhone, please follow the above link and let me know.
Thanks for any help!

How to I delete all contact on my iPhone at once. These are contacts ABOVE the contact folder that says From My Mac. I do not want to erase all of the other settings and content from my iPhone -- just the contacts.

How to I delete all contact on my iPhone at once? These are contacts ABOVE the contact folder that says, "From My Mac."
Someone said create a new empty folder on the computer and sync to that -- didn't work .
Another person said, "Reset information in settings to restore to the default." That would erase ALL of the conetent I have on the phone and I do not want to erase all of the other settings and content from my iPhone -- just the contacts.
There has to be a better way than gong through and deleting one-by-one.

Go into Settings...Mail, Calendar and Contacts and siwtch off the Contacts section from the account in question.
The phone should ask you if you want to keep or erase the contacts stored on you phone.
However, if they aren't synched to anything and only exist on your iPhone, you'll have to delete them all one by one

How can I delete ALL contacts on my iphone and replace with an updated file from my Outlook on PC

how can I delete ALL contacts on my iphone and replace with an updated file from my Outlook on my PC

iTunes running, your phone connected, on the Info Pane, scroll down to "Advanced". Put a check in the box labeled "Replace Info on this Phone for Contacts" on next sync. Hit the apply/sync button.

How to delete all contacts in my iphone?

some of you can help me? I sync a wrong list of contacts from my pc and now i would like to delete all my contacts in my iphone to sync the correct list.

Hi Cynthia! If you are syncing from something like Gmail you can go into the iPhones Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>(account you are syncing)> and turn off contacts. It will ask you if you want to delete them from your phone - just click delete. Exit Settings and turn phone off by power button (not all the way OFF). Then re-open Settings>mail, Contacts, Calendars>(account you are syncing)> and turn Contacts back on - This is where you need to be careful - When you turn contacts back on you will be prompted to delete or save the contacts already on your phone. CLICK DELETE. You should now have only your synced contacts on your phone! Hope it helps!

How do i delete all contacts from my iPhone 4

How do i delete all the contacts in my iphone 4?

Okay so I've been playing around with it. There are way too many places to turn on and turn off contact syncing! It's really absurd. Not only do you have to enable it through system preferences on the iPhone and on the Mac and other devices, but you also have to make sure "Default account" in system prefs is set to "iCloud' and not exchange, and you have to make sure to go to Address Book preferences on the Mac and check "Enable" under "iCloud" and then manually move your contacts to the "iCloud" slot (in address book) from the "On My Mac" slot. And that's just what I found before I finally got it to work.
***? Anyway, it's working now for me.

Got a new iphone , how to delete all contacts from old iphone

I got new iphone 3gs and now I want to delete all the contacts and photos from my old iphone 3g. Any ideas?

Two choices: 1. Plug your 3G in, iTunes running, hit the restore button. Restore the phone as a new device. Eject when finished, do not sync. 2. Plug the phone into a wall outlet(can take several hours), then: Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content & Settings.

How do you delete all contacts on iPhone 4S? I have tried to sync my contacts and it has resulted in doubling and now tripling the

How do you delete all contacts on iPhone 4S? I have tried to sync and end up w/duplicates and now triplicates. 4,000 contacts have now turned into 12,000 contacts!! I "upgraded" to Lion and hate it - it was so much easier before. I managed to delete on MacBook (to start from scratch there), but cannot delete from iphone or ipad. I am so frustrated! Please help

Hi Cynthia! If you are syncing from something like Gmail you can go into the iPhones Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>(account you are syncing)> and turn off contacts. It will ask you if you want to delete them from your phone - just click delete. Exit Settings and turn phone off by power button (not all the way OFF). Then re-open Settings>mail, Contacts, Calendars>(account you are syncing)> and turn Contacts back on - This is where you need to be careful - When you turn contacts back on you will be prompted to delete or save the contacts already on your phone. CLICK DELETE. You should now have only your synced contacts on your phone! Hope it helps!

HT204150 i have deleted all contacts in icloud but still have them on my iphone (which is backed up as well to iTunes) how can i restore the iphone data to the iCloud so it will resend it to my mac book and iPad?

i have deleted all contacts in icloud but still have them on my iphone (which is backed up as well to iTunes) how can i restore the iphone data to the iCloud so it will resend it to my mac book and iPad? I have switched my iphone to airplane mode so it is not connected to the internet and so icloud can not wipe it at the moment.
thanks roy

There's a menu choice (I think under "Files") that lets you sync purchased items on a device back to itunes. Look for that.
iCloud does not store music. If you want to do that you'd have to subscribe to itunes Match, but to get music to the match servers, you need the music in the itunes library on your computer.

ITunes deleted all contacts in iPhone

Hello!
I've synchronized contacts on my iPhone 4 with Microsoft Outlook (using iTunes), and as a result all my iPhone contacts were deleted, and contacts from Outlook were written to iPhone. So, I lost all my iPhone contacts, despite indicating in iTunes that I need to COMBINE two address books..
The question is - is there any chance to restore my iPhone contacts?
And additional question - is there a tool to send all contacts from iPhone to Windows Contacts? iTunes does it in its own way, updating only part of the contacts. For example. I've deleted all contacts from my WIndows Contacts, synchronized iPhone with Windiws Contacts, and still only several contacts appeared in Windows Contacts.
Thank you for any advice.
Best regards,
Alexey

Hi there snobbygirl,
I would recommend taking a look at the information found in the article below.
Recovering iCloud contacts, calendars, and bookmarks from an iTunes backup of an iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4108
-Griff W.

I synced my dad's iPhone 4 to my iMac. So my problem is the that whenever I go onto FaceTime on my iMac all of my dad's contacts are on MY FaceTime! So i tried to delete a contact off my FaceTime but then it deleted a contact off his iPhone aswell! HELP?!

I synced my dad's iPhone 4 to my iMac. So my problem is the that whenever I go onto FaceTime on my iMac all of my dad's contacts on his iPhone 4 are on MY FaceTime on MY iMac! So I tried to delete a contact off my FaceTime on the iMac but then it deleted a contact off his iPhone aswell! PLEASE HELP!!

Yes, they maybe 2 separate devices, but you have only mentioned one iCloud account and this is the problem.

So i believe that i sync my computer contacts to my iphone4 which in return deleted my contacts on my iphone... is there a way to get back all my contacts back on my iphone?

so i believe that I sync my computer contacts to my iphone4 which in return deleted my contacts on my iphone... is there a way to get back all my contacts back on my iphone?

JBapple1 wrote:
Is there a way to save th info from all the apps and still designate the new computer as his new primary one?
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Backup iTunes to an External Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes.

I accidently deleted some contacts that I need. I still have them on my IPAD because I disabled my contacts in icloud. Is there a way to reload these deleted contacts using my IPAD and icloud?

I accidently deleted some contacts that I still need. Because of Icloud they are now deleted on all my devices such as my Iphone and PC (outlook). I still have them on my IPAD because I disabled my contacts on Icloud on my IPAD. Is there a way to reload these contacts from my IPAD back to my Iphone and PC using Icloud? Thank you.

Hi mth3333,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can sync the contacts on your iPad with your computer. See this article for the steps:
iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1296
Contacts
To sync contacts with your computer, choose "Sync Contacts with" within iTunes for Windows, or "Sync Address Book Contacts" on your Mac.
You can sync your contacts with:
Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2010 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7)
Windows Address Book (Windows XP)
Windows Contacts (Windows Vista / Windows 7)
Address Book (Mac OS X)
Microsoft Entourage 2004, Microsoft Entourage 2008, or Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac
Note: If using Microsoft Entourage, use Microsoft Entourage 2008 12.1.2 or later if syncing with Mac OS X v10.6 or later. If you would like to sync data on your Mac with Entourage, enable syncing between Entourage and Address Book.
Notes:
When syncing contacts, you can choose to sync all of your contacts or only selected groups. The option to sync selected items may not show up until after the first sync.
You can select a group of contacts to which all new contacts created on your iOS device will be added.
Regards,
Jeremy

How can I replace ALL Contacts on the iPhone with my MobileMe Contacts?

I have removed all duplicates in AddressBook on my various Macs and have uploaded the master copy to MobileMe. I would now like to replace all Contacts on my iPhone with that MobileMe master.
I have followed the steps in the KB article for syncing the iPhone but when I get to the step of turning on the iPhone Settings for the Contacts it looks like the sync wants to merge the contacts. Of course, I do not want to "merge" since that will reintroduce all those duplicates.
I suppose I could manually delete each of the the hundreds of contacts that are on my phone until it is empty ... and then turn on the iPhone setting for Contacts. That way it will have no option other than "add." But surely there is a more efficient way.
(FWIW, when I turned OFF the setting for the Calendar it did empty the iPhone's calendar, which is what I wanted. But it didn't do that for the Contacts -- I turned that setting off but I was not asked if I wanted to keep or toss the Contacts. They are all still on the phone.)
This is an OG iPhone, if that matters.

Matthew Smith wrote:
... The only way I can think of doing it otherwise is possibly by syncing via iTunes via another Mac OS X user account where the address book is empty and then deleting them there and resyncing. ...
Brilliant! That worked like a charm.
I created a new User Account on one of my Macs and logged into it. I connected my iPhone to its iTunes and checked my iPhone's Sync Contacts option in iTunes. Since that account's address book was basically empty (two dummy contacts, one for Apple and one for this new user), I ended up with only those two Contacts on the phone. Then, going back to my real User account (which does not have syncing turned on in iTunes) the phone synced nicely with the MobileMe account and populated the phone with all the MobileMe contacts and groups.

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