Manually entered contacts disappear from iphone

Any contact (phone number) that I manuall enter on my IPhone disappears. Is it being wiped out by some mailbox that syncing? How do I stop it from happening?

In which account are you entering it, local, iCloud, some other account?

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Contact disappeared from iPhone but not deleted from Address Book on sync

FYI, I have an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2 (the latest), and I have never so much as thought about MobileMe.
Until two days ago, I have had no reason to doubt that my iPhone's Contact list is the same as my MacBook's Address Book list. I now have no confidence that the same info. exists in both: I know for sure that at least one contact long present in both has disappeared from the iPhone, yet syncing all contacts neither returns it to the iPhone nor deletes it from Address Book! I need help troubleshooting this contact as well as verifying that there aren't other similar anomalies corrupting my data, hopefully without manually comparing all 685 entries...
Two days ago, a certain number, let's call it (310) 555-5555, popped up in my recents list as a missed call and in my visual voicemail. When I listened to the voicemail, I discovered that (310) 555-5555 was Jane Smith. I remembered entering Jane Smith several months ago, so I thought hmmm, does she have a second number? I tried to add (310) 555-5555 to an existing entry, only to find my iPhone had no entry for Jane Smith anymore at all! I did not delete her myself, and I'm not aware of any 3rd-party app that ought to have affected the entry. I haven't called Jane Smith or (310) 555-5555 in quite some time, so I have no idea how long the entry may have been missing. I searched the whole phone (left of the first home screen)
At the next opportunity, I looked in Address Book on my laptop, and indeed found the expected entry for Jane Smith, (310) 555-5555. I have no idea how she disappeared from my iPhone -- did I or some third-party program delete her? Or did it happen through some sync issue? -- but I naturally worried that when I next synced, the deletion would sync, too, and I would lose the Address Book entry, leaving me without Jane Smith's number at all.
Such an event would defeat the entire purpose of backing up my phone contacts to my computer; I just moved to iPhone this spring after being a Palm user since 1997, and the idea that iPhone might not be reliably syncing my contacts is frankly terrifying. I checked and saw that my Address Book listed 685 contacts to iPhone Contacts's 684, so I decided to risk a sync in hopes that maybe I had caused a one-off deletion. I wrote down Jane Smith (310) 555-5555 just in case and hit sync.
The results of the sync and my subsequent troubleshooting have seriously undermined my confidence in the fidelity of the sync process. The first time, nothing changed--I still had 684 iPhone, no Jane Smith, and 685 Address Book, including Jane Smith.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Before conecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences, on the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically". Now connect your phone and when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar click on its name. Go to the Info tab and confirm than your have checked Sync Contacts with Address Book. Now further down on the Info tab under Advanced>Replace information on this iPhone check Contacts. Click Apply and sync your phone. This will replace the contacts on your phone with the contacts in Address Book. (When complete you can go back to iTunes preferences and uncheck "Prevent..." to re-establish automatic syncing if your prefer this.)

HELP: contacts disappeared from iphone 4/address book on computer

my old iphone 4 had a problem so I got a new one.. the old one was backed up just about a week ago. I tried to sync my new phone today and everything synced except my contacts - not only that but my contacts have disappeared from my address book/itunes.
How could everything else have backed up just fine but not my contacts... are they recoverable?

Argh! Why doesn't Apple warn you about known iOS-to-OS conflicts before you install a new one? I too am now (unhappily) running iOS 6 on my iPhone 3GS, and still Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro. If I upgrade my MacBook OS to Lion or Mt Lion, I will have some software that won't run anymore, & will have to buy upgrades -- the reason I've held off. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet.
The info about the iPhone Mail-etc sync setting is also useful. I do have iCloud for the phone though not for the Mac.
Here's the problem now:
In trying to solve my issue of new contact info not syncing in either direction, I went into iTunes on the Mac, the Info tab, and checked the sync box for Address Book, even though there was a warning my contacts might be duplicated because of iCloud backups. This was a phone/Mac sync, not phone/iCloud. (I alternate them so I'm covered.) I have 4200+ contacts. Guess what? Most of 'em duplicated on the iPhone. The 2 questions now are:
- is there a more efficient way to remove the duplicates from the iPhone than doing select-edit-scroll down-delete for every one?
- do I dare do any backing up to iCloud with these duplicates on the phone, or will I end up with quadruplicates?
Thanks very much! BTW, how do you enter a "This helped me" or "solved my problem" score? I'm only seeing how to Like a reply.

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Contacts disappear on my iPhone but are still on my Mac Mini. When I enter them again on the iPhone they magically reappear. Why is this happening?

I synced my iPhone today and lost all contacts on the iPhone and my iMac address book. My iCal is still working, though. I spent an hour on the phone with an Apple Care tech and I was unable to recover anything. We even checked my old 20 gig 2nd generation iPod by going to "disk mode" but I didn't have any contact data stored in it. Is there a "disk mode" for the iPhone?
I didn't back up my contacts in Address Book (go to File - Back Up Address Book) so I know I'm out of luck and that I should probably go get Leopard for the "Time Machine" application. At least Apple gets to make some more $ off me.

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I have a recurring problem with my iPhone which occurred under 3.0 and now under 3.1, and even after a "restore as new phone" and replacement of the SIM card: occasionally, I'll go into the iPhone Contacts app and it will be empty -- no contacts at all, even if they were there minutes earlier. They eventually reappear after a reboot (without my doing any kind of "restore" -- I sync my contacts wirelessly over MobileMe). Yesterday, for example, I opened up my Contacts app to make a call; the contacts were all there, and I tapped on a particular contact to call him, and instead of his contact details being displayed, all my contacts disappeared. i rebooted and they reappeared.
I have asked about this at the Genius Bar and the Genius said it was happening because I was in an area with no cell signal, and that since I sync wirelessly with MobileMe, my contacts will disappear when I have no cell signal. However, that doesn't make sense, since my contacts do not disappear when I put the iPhone into Airplane Mode (in which case by definition there is no signal) or when the phone actually displays "No Signal" at the top of the screen. And when it happened yesterday, I had 5 bars in the signal display.
So I have several questions:
(a) has anyone else experienced this?
(b) does anyone have any ideas on solving it?
(c) does anyone think the Genius Bar explanation makes sense?

I am facing the same problem. my Contacts names disappear . Phone number is what just remains.
However I do not think it is a Genius Problem. OR it is not even a problem of no cell phone coverage.
Problems like these are usually OS Problems. So I think 3.1 is with full of bugs.
2) I dont know how to solve it. looking for soultion

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i had this problem on my aunt icloud
now she is blaming me
A-K contact all missing
remaining contact is K-Z
seem icloud not that reliable
she will knock my head off if i cant restore his contact,
i try login to icloud.com it also show her contact is half less then she type in
my aunt is a 60yo woman, hope icloud can restore her contact

Anyone know why uploads contacts disappear from the iPhone 5? Half of my number is suddenly gone, and this happens over and over again? Kata-*******-stroff! Grateful for answers?

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Anyone know why uploads contacts disappear from the iPhone 5?
Half of my number is suddenly gone, and this happens over and over again?
Kata-*******-stroff! Grateful for answers?

do you sync your contacts with an application in your computer? or use iCloud?
I can't tell you why the contacts disappear but you can get them back without much hassle by syncing through iTunes with your computer.
do you regularly make backups? if so, you can restore your iPhone using the backups and get your contacts back in your iPhone.
It is strange that half of your contacts are gone over and over again. Do you have Groups that are unchecked in your iPhone? If so, the contacts in those groups will not appear in your contacts list but they are in your iPhone and be recovered by re-checking the group name.

I have an iPhone 4S. I noticed that some of my contacts disappear from the phone. Has anyone had this problem? Thank you.

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I went into the cloud on phone it was on. Turned off and back on. Now i have 6 of one contactDeleted face books also incase that was the issue. I went to Itunes and couldnt find contacts - now I wonder it is is my outlook email too adding information as I am seeing contacts that are only on my outlook emails.

Anyone know why uploads contacts disappear from the iPhone 5?

Anyone know why uploads contacts disappear from the iPhone 5?
Half of my number is suddenly gone, and this happens over and over again?
Grateful for answer?
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do you sync your contacts with an application in your computer? or use iCloud?
I can't tell you why the contacts disappear but you can get them back without much hassle by syncing through iTunes with your computer.
do you regularly make backups? if so, you can restore your iPhone using the backups and get your contacts back in your iPhone.
It is strange that half of your contacts are gone over and over again. Do you have Groups that are unchecked in your iPhone? If so, the contacts in those groups will not appear in your contacts list but they are in your iPhone and be recovered by re-checking the group name.

HT1689 All my contacts disappeared from my iPhone.

All my contacts disappeared from my iPhone.
The phone strarted "blinking" all of a sudden, and when it returned to normal all contacts were missing.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know if I can somehow restore the contacts? (No, I did not syncronize them with my PC or store them online..)
Thanks!

I would try a reboot and pray that it helped. But if you didn't back the phone up to itunes or icloud or if you don't already store your contacts in gmail, then they are probably gone forever.

WHY DID MY CONTACTS DISAPPEAR FROM MY IPHONE?

My contacts disappeared from my iPhone and they are not in my iCloud.

i had this problem on my aunt icloud
now she is blaming me
A-K contact all missing
remaining contact is K-Z
seem icloud not that reliable
she will knock my head off if i cant restore his contact,
i try login to icloud.com it also show her contact is half less then she type in
my aunt is a 60yo woman, hope icloud can restore her contact

HT204150 I'm having problems with random contacts disappearing from icloud. I have a saved text from a contact that displays her info but when I look for her in contacts it's missing.

I'm having problems with random contacts disappearing from icloud. I have a saved text from a contact that displays her info but when I look for her in contacts it's missing.

It is locked to your sisters carrier.
She would have to ask her carrier if they unlock iPhones and if she qualifies for this service.

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I have tried the following:
icloud control panel and unclicking the check box next to contacts and restarting machine and outlook. Does not bring them back.
icloud control panel and exiting icloud panel and then restarting machine and then logging back into icloud and reloading contacts. Brings them back for one session. Once I exit and get back into Outlook the contacts are goine.
repairing icloud control panel (uninstalling and reinstalling) and reloading contacts. Brings them back for one sesson and then disappear again.
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