I keep loosing some of my contacts intermittantly

Suddenly one day I find, I cant find a contact, even though I have not deleted it, it just disappears. I use a PC and itune to sync my iphone 4s. Any support will be highly appreciated

I have a few thoughts that you may consider:
First - How many Contact Groups do you have? Go to Contacts - Look at the top of your screen. Does it say 'All Contacts'? If you have more than one Contact Group, you'll see an option button in the upper left corner that says Groups. This means that you have more than one - press the Groups button - the screen scrolls & you'll see all the Contact Groups you have. To see contacts for a specific group, press that option - or press All Contacts to view all that are stored on your phone/email/iCloud, etc.
Second - If you don't have a computer to host your iTunes account, it sounds like you need to be sure you've activated iCloud, and that "Contacts" is turned "ON" - Go to "Settings" - "iCloud" - "Contacts". It'll walk you through the basic set up, and you can choose which information you wish to have backup to iCloud - contacts, mail, calendars, apps, photos, etc. You get 5.0GB free; and the option to purchase additional space if needed.
I hope this is helpful to you. I know transitioning can be painful and confusing.

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Why do I keep loosing some contacts

I keep loosing some of my contacts. Sometimes I can text a person and send it, then when I check on the message for a reply, the name has gone and the number appears on the screen. When I then check my I pad, the contact has gone from there too!
Is anyone else experiencing this, it has happened several times now

I dont know how this has been going on, but have realised it in the past 2 weeks, i save a couple of contacts or even one, there after a couple of hours or a day the contact disapears. I realized this because i get alot of text messages from unknown numbers in which i save after requesting who the contact is, after saving & a few hours have gone by, when my check my messages the contact is only displayed by a number, going to my contact list its missing. I have realized i have lost alot of contacts this way & this is very disturbing, if im loosing contacts how can i hold up my business & social life? (& mind you same thing happens with email)

I keep losing some of my contacts. I put them in and they disappear. Help.

I keep losing some of my contacts. I put them in and they disappear. Help.

I have a few thoughts that you may consider:
First - How many Contact Groups do you have? Go to Contacts - Look at the top of your screen. Does it say 'All Contacts'? If you have more than one Contact Group, you'll see an option button in the upper left corner that says Groups. This means that you have more than one - press the Groups button - the screen scrolls & you'll see all the Contact Groups you have. To see contacts for a specific group, press that option - or press All Contacts to view all that are stored on your phone/email/iCloud, etc.
Second - If you don't have a computer to host your iTunes account, it sounds like you need to be sure you've activated iCloud, and that "Contacts" is turned "ON" - Go to "Settings" - "iCloud" - "Contacts". It'll walk you through the basic set up, and you can choose which information you wish to have backup to iCloud - contacts, mail, calendars, apps, photos, etc. You get 5.0GB free; and the option to purchase additional space if needed.
I hope this is helpful to you. I know transitioning can be painful and confusing.

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My ipad2 is loosing all of my contacts

This just happened to my wife using our iPad2 on iOS4.3.3.
This is not just a negligible bug. This is something that rattles my confidence in iOS...
The common problem seems to be when people are adding new contacts directly into the Contacts app and hitting "done". The system then takes them all the way out to the home page.
Someone suggested performing a reboot (Home+Sleep until the apple disappears) but this did not work for me. I haven't tried doing a "Search iPad" for specific contacts - as janisfromsteilacoom describes. I will try that if it does happen again.
Finally, when I connected with iTunes, the system clearly saw that all my contacts were missing too - and restored up to my last backup - so this is not just a GUI issue.
Apple better get on the stick with this one fast, because storing, adding and recalling Contacts is one of the fundamental functions that this elaborate gadget needs to do reliably - period.
Syncing via MobileMe or the new iCloud would be a flimsy engineering solution to an already crappy problem. Although the iCloud and the like with Dropbox are convenient tools for a lot of things - you loose control over your data if your ever hacked. I've come to the conclusion that Security in today's day and age is an illusion. And the only tools that we truly have are only enough to keep and honest man - honest. Those with the fortittude to succeed will succeed at anything they set out to do.
My 2 cell phone contracts are up in a couple of months and I will reconsider my plans to switch over to the iphone from the blackberry - if I don't have confidence in iOS by then. Haven't heard of Android having this type of problem yet...
In the mean time - until apple makes this one a priority - the only solution that I can think of, is to avoid entering and editing Contact information directly on the ipad and use it purely as a look-up device...
(Gimme a break!)

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Think about it. If it were truly the iOS update, EVERYONE who has updated (and that's millions and millions of users) would be having problems. It would be front page news.
Get a replacement SIM from O2 and see if this improves the situation. If not, then basic troubleshooting steps are restart, reset, restore from backup and restore as new device. If those don't work, then you have a hardware issue with the phone (not a problem with the iOS 7 update) and will need to bring it to Apple for servicing.

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When an app is downloaded to your phone what is downloading is an installer. Once the installer downloads in installs the app and then is deleted. You can see a reference to this if you watch the App's icon in the App Store after you tap on download. It will first say downloading then that will change to installing. The amount of free space on your phone must be enough to accommodate the installer and the app plus have some left over for system work. You're just too close to the minimum for everything to work.

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i don´t know why i loose some contacts if i don´t erase them

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Why do I keep loosing contacts from my contact list?

Why do I keep loosing contacts from my contact list?!

I dont know how this has been going on, but have realised it in the past 2 weeks, i save a couple of contacts or even one, there after a couple of hours or a day the contact disapears. I realized this because i get alot of text messages from unknown numbers in which i save after requesting who the contact is, after saving & a few hours have gone by, when my check my messages the contact is only displayed by a number, going to my contact list its missing. I have realized i have lost alot of contacts this way & this is very disturbing, if im loosing contacts how can i hold up my business & social life? (& mind you same thing happens with email)

Why do I keep loosing my contacts?

Why do I keep loosing my contacts?

I dont know how this has been going on, but have realised it in the past 2 weeks, i save a couple of contacts or even one, there after a couple of hours or a day the contact disapears. I realized this because i get alot of text messages from unknown numbers in which i save after requesting who the contact is, after saving & a few hours have gone by, when my check my messages the contact is only displayed by a number, going to my contact list its missing. I have realized i have lost alot of contacts this way & this is very disturbing, if im loosing contacts how can i hold up my business & social life? (& mind you same thing happens with email)

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I think I have opened the sobig.f virus in my hotmail account and it keeps seding emails to my contacts. How do I stop it, and will it effect any of my other transactions like internet banking/shopping, is it safe To continue using my ipad ?

This isn't due to malware. There is no known malware capable of infecting an iPad that has not been jailbroken (ie, hacked to allow apps from outside the App Store).
As lizdance40 says, your Hotmail account has been hacked remotely. Change the password immediately. Hotmail accounts are popular targets, but as long as you choose a good password, and make sure that password is not the same as a password you use with any other account, you should be safe.
I disagree with lizdance40's statement that you have to abandon the account and create a new e-mail address. If a hacker is able to get back in even after changing the password, the problem is not with the account itself. There's another vulnerability of some kind somewhere. Perhaps the account allows hackers to leave a "back door" to get back in (such as with GMail's delegation feature), in which case any such feature needs to be reviewed and have settings changed. Perhaps you are checking mail in an insecure manner while on an insecure network (ie, a wireless network that requires no password). Perhaps you are using a password on multiple accounts, and a different account has been compromised. Perhaps a hacker has used knowledge gained by prior access to your account to achieve "social hacking" (ie, convincing a tech to give him access because he has "forgotten the password"). There are many scenarios, but there's no good reason to abandon the account entirely.

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I deleted it all to free up the free 5 GB storage and now on my iPhone 5s some of my Contacts are missing a phone # info and some of the Contacts are missing entirely. Thank you.

I used this to restore my deleted notes from Time Machine, hope this helps others
closed Notes,
turned WiFi off,
entered finder/go+option/ to 'get to library': /Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/
entered TM and selected the 3 files/ hit restore/ keep both (just to make sure, then I deleted the newer file, not the 'restored' file when this worked out)
opened notes and my deleted notes were back so I copied my notes into pages as a backup,
turned on WiFi and the notes disappeared!
replaced my restored notes by copy/pasting my backups into notes/iCloud....
notes/mac would not show across iCloud.... don't remeber this being an issue prior to Mavericks when 'all' notes were selected?
Apple needs to hear from us so they can fix glitches like this. TM was created for instances like this, hopefully this is just an oversite. Pass this along to Apple Feedback/iCloud/bug. If enough of us flag such issues, hopfully it's addressed on the next update.
Dear Apple, this should be much easier than it is. We should be able to open Notes, go into Time Machine, and restore anything regardless if it's on my Mac or on the cloud.

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Hi all,
My aim accounts keeps loosing passwords and have to type it in each time I log in to messages beta.. Any ideas?
Thanks

HI,
No, this should not be a problem.
I entered a New iCloud Issued Apple ID as the iMessages service ID and it loads all 6 of my iChat IDs with no problem.
There was a sort of implied question as to whether you had issue (of the same nature) in iChat as well.
To be clear in Lion I am using:-
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2) A Google ID
3) Jabber ID
4) @Mac.com name
5) Yahoo ID
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If so some of what The SmokeMonster says will apply.
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Make the Finder the "Front App" in the Menu Bar.
USe the Go Menu and hold the ALT key down to show the Library.
Select the Library and then Keychains
Highlight the login.keychain.
Do a Get Info ( Apple/CMD ( or ⌘) and i Keys together).
At the bottom of the panel will be Onwership and Permissions.
You should open the padlock and click the Cogwheel looking icon.
Your Short Name followed by (me) should appear in the list with Read an Write Permissions.
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In this Example I have Read and Write access But I am not the Owner
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Anyone ??!!
I have worked on this document for over 100 hours and made several saves in between, but keep loosing pictures all the time?
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PLEASE ANYONE?

Hello Robert,
your documents are really huge. Are the files so big or are they so manyfold? If you have the possibility (with Preview or better with Photoshop/Gimp/Seashore) you should save the images with as low size as possible. Do you want to print the portfolio or it is for screen presentation only?
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