Ios 5 double contacts

Hello Since I updated to iOs 5, I have my Adress book groups DOUBLES, and same for contacts and agenda meetings.
The funny part of the story is that it occured when i deleted my icloud account from the iphone.
(but online it still works)
Even in itunes/my iPhone my adressbook categores are written in double. I have decheked this but it does nothing.
ANy idea?

I have the same problem, but not with the contacts. I get double alerts for all iCal events. Not sure what to do just yet.

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Double contacts in address book & iPhone

I have double contacts in my address book on my iMac and on my iPhone I have "linked cards". Does anyone know how to fix this? My sync is not checked in iTunes, so I don't think that is the problem. I have tried to "search for duplicates" in my address book, but it doesn't match anyone. Anything else I should try?
Thanks!

One reason you may have duplicates is that you have each contact listed under your 'iCloud' account AND under your 'on my mac' account. Only contacts in the iCloud account will sync.
Click on the ribbon in the Address Book to reveal 'Users & Groups', and then by selecting each account on the left side you will see which contacts are in which account. (make sure nothing is typed in the search field)
If this is the reason you have duplicates you have two options of dealing with the situation. Either you can leave the duplicates alone and click on one account or the other before clicking on the ribbon again to limit what you see to that account when you return to the main part of your Address Book.
Or you can delete all the contacts from one account (usually the 'on my mac' account if you want to continue syncing with iCloud). Click on the account you want to delete contacts from on the left side of the Address Book and select the first contact in the list on the right, shift click the last contact to select all and delete.
Finally, You may want to check your default account is set correctly in the Address Book preferences.

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I have an original iPhone running iPhone software 3.0.1.
Whenever I sync my contacts via MobileMe (not just syncing through iTunes) I get double contacts on my phone.
Things that I have already tried...
1) Checked for duplicates in Address Book and merged any duplicates
2) MobileMe advanced setting to replace MobileMe data from Computer data
3) Checked MobileMe settings on iPhone and turned off and back on the "Contacts" setting (deleted all existing contacts from phone and did not merge phone with address book.)
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I've seen two other posts on the forum that address this, but none of it has worked.

I had the same "double contacts" issue and followed the steps on the support article referenced above by Jason L. It took care of the problem for me!
This is what you need to do:
1) On iTunes, plug the iphone and allow it to sync, then make sure the "Sync Address Book Contacts" under the "info" Tab is disabled. (If it was enabled, un-check that option and sink again manually, so that the new setting takes place).
2) On iphone, Choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap your MobileMe account, and slide Contacts to Off.
3)Select "Delete from My iPhone/iPod touch."
This will clear one of the duplicate lists, and now you will only have one set of contacts, which for the time being will be stored only in your iphone. It might take more than a few seconds depending on the size of your contact list.
Now you need to re-enable syncing and allow your iphone contacts to merge with those on your MobileMe account. Merging is the command that will allow you to have a single set on contacts in sync between the iphone and address book. I saw on your earlier post that you were reluctant to do this, but there is no way around it:
4) On the iPhone, Choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap your account to slide the Contacts Sync option back on.
5) When prompted, select Merge with MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange.
Done!
The whole thing is described in more detail here (reposting Jason L.'s link): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3677

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TS3899 I accidently turned ON contacts when I was turning ON my yahoo email account in settings and now all the emails from contacts have been merged to create SEPARATE contact right under the original contact name. Now I have double contacts for everyone

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Any contacts synced with the Yahoo account will be deleted from the phone if you turn it off. They will still be out there in Yahoo land, so if you turn it off and it deletes something you didn't want to, just turn it back on again.
It's extremely unclear what you did when you say " I only created contacts and typed in emails that I had for those contacts.....so I am still not sure how to UNdo what I did without deleting anything"
Undo WHAT, exactly? You said "I accidently turned ON contacts when I was turning ON my yahoo email account in Settings and now all the emails from contacts have been merged to create SEPARATE contact right under the original contact name."
Just turn it off.

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Just a guess but if the exchange account is from your employer, your employer may have installed a security profile to your device preventing you from adding or editing contacts in the exchange account by removing the Default Account setting. You would need to check with your employer's IT department to confirm this. You could also test this by adding a Gmail account and turning on contacts syncing with Gmail to see if the setting reappears.

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bookwiz wrote:
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS5 and an iMac running OS 10.6.8. I foolishly got caught up in the iCloud fervor and converted my Mobile me account to iCloud - BIG MISTAKE. I can still sync Contacts and Calendars, wirelessly (very slick), using iTunes
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OOn yoru computer System prefs iCloud and tick Contacts.
Select the iPhone in iTunes.
Click the Info tab and uncheck Sync contacts (because you do not want them to sync via iTunes).

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Dear Stevejobsfan0123,
I have the same problem, and need to delete some incorrect email addresses, or modify the name to something like "Invalid email", or change the email address to be something I recognize as unusable.
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Do NOT USE an existing BACK-UP to restore or YOU'LL END UP WITH THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
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I would ask, why are you going into the same contact in iOS if you have already edited it in OS X? But then, I digress.
True, there is only two settings for sorting contacts in iOS, Last Name or First name. The same as display. When you have a name and Company, it will only sort by name.
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