Link Contacts and Appointments

Hi,
is there a way to link contacts to appointments? Especially when I setup a new calendar entry to remind me to call someone, it would be very helpful to have the contact linked to the calendar entry.
Is there some way to do that? I have iCal, BusyCal on my iMac available and iCal and Pocket Informant on my iPod touch. Thx for any tip.
Reiner

Try unchecking all the calendars except the one you want to sync.
Tap Calendar, swipe down from the top and tap Manage.

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I recently got a new iphone 4 w/iOs 7. I set up th eicloud, etc. and got my contacts and appointments from outlook. All was fine. Now it will not snyc/update my phone from outlook. I get "Your setup couldn't be started because of an unexpected error."

I recently got a new iphone 4 w/iOs 7. I set up th eicloud, etc. and got my contacts and appointments from outlook. All was fine. Now it will not snyc/update my phone from outlook. I get "Your setup couldn't be started because of an unexpected error."

Hello JinxUK,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with the iCloud Control Panel. I found an article referencing the error message you are getting:
“Your setup couldn't be started because of an unexpected error.”
Apple is investigating this issue. This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
iCloud: iCloud Control Panel setup cannot be started
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5178
I recommend saving that link so that you can check back for a resolution when it becomes available.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

HT5624 My husband just got an iPhone also, can we have separate iCloud accts? All my contacts and appointments are now on his phone too.

My husband just got an iPhone also, can we have separate iCloud accts? All my contacts and appointments are now on his phone too.

I had the same problem too.
Yes, you can go apply for a new AppleID, which would be <your account>@icloud.com.
Then put this new AppleID into the icloud account field.
After this action, you will not be seeing the same contacts and appointments.
But for the itunes store, you still can use the same AppleID so that you can share purchases.
My wife and I use separate icloud accounts, and then we use a 3rd appleid for our itunes store. This allowed us to have separate contacts but still share itune purchases.

My contacts and appointments have vanished

I have an iphone 3gs and a pc running Vista and use Microsoft Outlook 2007. I installed iOS5 and icloud and now all of my contacts and appointments have vanished from Outlook. What should I do? I was due to buy a mac laptop this week to replace my pc but am disappointed with Apple for creating this problem. I have looked on Google and lots of people seem to have similar problems caused by icloud but no one seems to know how to rectify it.

Thanks for replying but I already have outlook on iphone. I have been syncing it all along via usb lead with no problems. Now the info is still on phone but not pc. Strangely some appointments (very few) have remained in calendar but my contacts have all vanished.

Is it possible to sync with both my win 7 computer (Outlook 2010), and with iCloud, without duplicating contacts and appointments? thanks.

Is it possible to sync with both my win 7 computer (Outlook 2010), and with iCloud, without duplicating contacts and appointments? thanks.

Hey keiichi-san,
Yes, It is possible. You can merge contacts, calendars, and bookmarks between multiple computers.
When you sync the contacts and calendars to your iPhone from the new computer you'll see the option to Merge or Replace, just choose Merge.
These articles provide more information on syncing options:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306071
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305741
Jason

Linking contacts and the changing info deletes the contact!

I wish there was a separate Discussion for Addressbook and Apple Mail because this post is about Addressbook / Contacts and there's no where to properly post, so the best I can do is post here since the issue happened on my iPad Air's Contacts. I've sent Feedback, but in the meantime ...
I never noticed Linking contacts for some reason until today when adding a new contact using the Create New Conact feature.
After creating, I noticed I could link her to related other contacts in my Contact database and did.
I then saw that in addition the linked contact names now being listed under LINKED CONTACTS which link to their Contact page, very cool, data from these linked contacts was posted into fields of the new contact such as Phone numbers, email and Notes, basically merging a lot of data without any proper labels. Meaning, the first linked contact's phone became the mobile phone under my new contact. Her home phone was a phone from the 2nd contact I linked to her. Each added linked contact's email now showed as an email for her, the new contact. I linked 5 people ans now had 6 emails and phones all mislabeled
I didn't want a merge of data even if labeled well, all I wanted was a list of linked contacts at the bottom of this new contact's page.
So I manually deleted the phone numbers hoping the list of contacts would remain.
BEWARE when you delete a phone number from within a linked contact it deletes the number in the original record AND deletes the contact from your Contacts, although these linked Contacts still exist in iCloud, but without their phones :(
This may be a setting issue I can fix, but it was new and seemed intuitive until I deleted the phones. An alert "Are you sure...) seems like a reasonable safe guard for such dramatic result. I lost 5 phones and these were all new contacts from my new job I started this week.
Yes I'm sending this to Feedback.
(You can link contacts when in Edit mode).

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Unknown contacts and appointments after upgrade, what happened?

I traded in my 4 for the new 5 the other day and after backing the 4 up to the cloud i setup my new 5. After it was finished i had a large number of unknown people and appointments on my phone. I have noticed also that some of my known contacts info has changed. What the heck has happened?

that's not really something that we can help you with since we can't see your account. i would definitely call applecare if i were you

Contacts and appointments lost to the iCloud

I recently updated my iTunes software for my IPod and it asked if I wanted to sync my information to the iCloud. I did... then later noticed that all of my contacts and calendar appointments on my PC were gone. I just figured I would sync my Torch to the desktop manager and put them all back... Not what happened. Now the information is missing from my Outlook on my PC and from my Torch. It is however, on the iCloud. The Verizon Blackberry technicians were not able to get the information back onto my Torch. Any ideas??? Since when did Apple and Blackberry engage in a data feud and start taking hostages??

Hi,
It may happen that you've misconfigured Sync direction and hence such issue arises. Check the below KB article on proper sync setup -
KB00561 How to configure wireless calendar synchronization on a BlackBerry smartphone
KB03315 How to setup organizer data synchronization using BlackBerry Desktop Software
KB19148 How to synchronize organizer data in Microsoft Office for Mac between the BlackBerry smartphone and a Mac computer using BlackBerry Desktop Software
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Duplicates contacts and appointments

I am not liking this icloud, it is duplicating all my appointments and contacts (more than duplicating sometimes 4 or 5 or 6 times) I cannot seem to find an easy way to deal with eliminating all the duplicates. I am really po'd that I can no longer sync with outlook, so my calendar in outlook does not update with anything i enter on my other devices.
Who has some answers on dealing with this, I was loving my iphone a few weeks ago but not so much now! Help!

Hi kkthekitty,
Welcome to the Support Community!
Can you please provide more information on the synchronization issue you are having?
What version of BlackBerry® Desktop Software do you have installed?
What is the full error message you receive when synchronizing your calendar?
Is your calendar stored locally in a .pst file on your computer or are Microsoft® Outlook® and Windows® Calendar connecting with your calendar in Windows Live™ webmail to synchronize?
Thanks,
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Linking contacts and deleting duplicates

Hey guys, my contacts list from an old phone are divided between 3 export files and many of the contacts are repeating about 4 to 5 times when i import them to this phone. I have linked the contacts for now but what i really wanna do is delete all those duplicates so that only a single contact for one person remains. I can't link some contacts which i want to link since there are a surplus amount of duplicate vthat have been linker together. Is there any solution for this problem? How can i delete duplicates? I have a z1 compact.

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Feature Request: List of linked contacts

hi there,
as there is bug with disapearing gmail contacts (those which are linked with SIM contacts if SIM card contacts display is switched off) i've tried to view all linked contacts and unlink them. i found the only way to do this is to go trough all contacts in list, check everyone is it linked or not separatelly. as usual contact list may exceed even 100 positions it is really hard task, or time consuming.
it wouldbe very nice to have:
1. a quick access to list of all linked contacts, so i may decide manually which one should be unliked, or:
2. maybe a little icon next to a contact name to indicate that contact is linked, or:
3. little icon at right side of the name which would indicate a type of storage: gmail, local phone, sim... contacts linked from few sources could have more than one icon.

Try this:
Once logged in, click 'All Files' from the top-left corner. Then click the 'Clock' symbol to 'List by when I viewed'
I realize it's not exactly what you've asked for, but it may be helpful!
I've shared this feature request with the Workspaces product manager too.

Desktop manager 7.1 fails to restore Contacts and Calendar from backups

Today I discovered that I lost my contact and calendar lists on my playbook after upgrading to OS version 2.1.0.1032.
As a precaution I backed up my device data and apps using desktop manager 7.1 and used windows explorer to duplicate my media folder using the Z:drive option before I started the OS upgrade.
Since I learned how to deal with lost device data and apps on my BB smart phone I was confident that I could apply this knowledge to my Playbook too, just in case something happened.
Well, something happened. My PlayBook backup file became a trap even so the desktop manager manual said: “To restore all your smartphone data or tablet data, click All device data and settings.”
If one ‘thinks’ the phone learning curve can be applied to the Playbook one is doomed as I found out today. The PlayBook backup function for the contact and calendar listing behaves differently than for the BB phone. There is no warning in Desktop Manager 7.1 which says: “This backup file excludes contact and calendar data files which were manually built by the user and are not part of a synced email server”.
So this posting is about letting other users know to be aware of some OS 2.1.0.1032 short comings. If your contact and/or calendar list was manually built, i.e. it was not linked to an email account you might encounter the above issue.
When I noticed that my contact and calendar file did not sync with my email account I started to use my contact list for everything useful to remember not just contacts. There were many extra fields available in the PlayBook contact list which could not be matched with the limited fields found in other synced contact lists. So I built a big ‘Good to Know’ file with all kinds of info hoping that one day I could use it also with BB10.
Unfortunately this OS version wiped my contact and calendar lists which none of the other OS updates were able to do and the ‘Restore’ option via desktop manger 7.1 did not work!!!. So it looks like some engineering wizard at RIM is trying to upset the non-linked contact list users with this release version.
I hope RIM finds this ‘group of moles(?)' and deals with these engineers before they can do anymore damage. Remember RIM, the object is to enjoy new updates not to fear them. It would be nice if desktop manager 7.2 would alert us users with a warning or lets us export these files via another tip like: “How can I back up contact and calendar files for the PlayBook“. I realize as of today that this problem was with me all along but came only to light after this OS release wiped my 2 lists completely. There is also no hint in the PB or Desktop user manuals!
For the time being I will use only my phone’s contact and calendar lists via the bridge as a work around but I hope the responsible RIM manager reads this postings and tells his engineers to go forward not backwards. Tell them to include a backup feature for non-linked contact and calendar data in 7.2. Not everybody has linked data files or if this is RIM’s intention then let us users know upfront that one could loose his/her data.
If you ‘liked’ this posting click the ‘Thumb up’ box near by even so this issue has no solution at this point in time. Let’s hope RIM deals with this issue eventually.

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How do I link contacts on the MACBook Pro?

Is contact linking not available on the MACbook Pro?
I'm using OSX 10.9.2, Contacts 8.0?
I can only find how to merge contacts on the MAC but not link them as I can on my iPhone. Am I missing something?

Hello there, jimmyatpc.
Although each action is similar in each OS, they are ultimately a bit different. While contacts in Mavericks "merge" and become one contact (unless in different accounts), on iOS 7 when you link 2 contacts they remain two unique contacts and the information is just shared. See the following Knowledge Base article respectively to get a clear explanation of each:
Contacts (Mavericks): Combine duplicate contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15079
If you have more than one card for a contact, you can combine them, preserving all the unique information.
If the contact cards are in different accounts: You can link them, which retains the separate cards, but displays the combined contact information in one card.If contacts have the same name, the cards are linked automatically.
If the contact cards are in the same account: You can merged them, which combines the cards into one card.
If you remove an account with linked cards, the cards simply unlink, and only the cards in that account are removed.
Add contacts - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph14a87326
Unify contacts. If two entries for the same person aren’t linked automatically, you can unify them manually. Edit one of the contacts, tap Edit, then tap Link Contact and choose the other contact entry to link to.
Linked contacts aren’t merged. If you change or add information in a unified contact, the changes are copied to each source account where that information already exists.
If you link contacts with different first or last names, the names on the individual cards won’t change, but only one name appears on the unified card. To choose which name appears when you view the unified card, tap Edit, tap the linked card with the name you prefer, then tap Use This Name For Unified Card.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro

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How to transfer iPhone contacts and calendar into new iPad 2?

Hi
I have owned my 3Gs phone for about a year. I have manually entered contact and calendar data into it.
I do not sync with outlook, gmail or other services. I have contacts on those services, but I do not want to merge everything together. Now I have a new iPad, and I need to get my contacts and calendar duplicated into my iPad.
I don't want to get a MobileMe account.
I have googled around and found some solutions, but I have not been able to get any to work. I have successfully installed a subset of my iPhone apps on the iPad using iTunes.
So, how do I do this?
I have tried the various settings on the INFO tab when my iPhone/iPad is connected to the computer (windows), but can't seem to find any settings that allow transfer between devices.
If I make a change on one device, how do I get it to the other device?
I wish I could see the contacts and appointments like I do the apps and media for selection and transfer.
There must be a way, how?
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It is easy to move the phone stuff to the iPad. Just restore the iPad for the backup of the iPhone. However, I know of no way to keep them in sync between the iPhone and the iPad in the future since you do not want to use/purchase MobileMe or sync with another program like Outlook or Google stuff.

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