Moving Mac Contact List to iPhone without return duplication?

Have updated contact list on my Mac ready to transfer to iPhone. Would like to transfer this list to my iPhone without the out of date iPhone contact details being added back into the updated Mac Contact list as has happened previously resulting in massive duplication.

you can back up the address book by going file menu, export, back up. That way if syncing messes up your address book you can always go back.
If your iphone has been set to sync with the computer. and it added a bunch of numbers to the computer, and then you removed them from the numbers from the computer, when you sync again it's going to apply those changes to the iphone.
or you could tell itunes to wipe the address book and then sycn the contacts from the computer.

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HT204150 Following problem: I have around 600 contacts on my iphone and Ipad and would like to sync with contact list on my mac book air but its not working and whatever I do I get stuck on the 44 contacts I have on my mac contact-list. Please Help!!!!

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First, be sure that the contacts on the devices are in the "icloud" section and not the "On my iPhone" (or iPad) section of the contact listings/groups.
Missing contacts:
Here's a test to perform - using a computer's browser, log into icloud.com and go to the Contacts page. If most of them are gone, then they are gone.
If they show up, then the problem is that your device is not connecting to the Contacts database on icloud.
On the device, go to Settings>icloud. Be sure icloud is on and using the right ID. If not, scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Delete Account - this just disconnects the device from that account, no data is lost. Then log back in using the correct ID. ALSO - be sure the Contacts are turned on (on the same screen).
Note: Contacts are not part of an iCloud backup, since they are part of contacts database on iCloud's servers. So performing a restore will not help.
Contacts are gone from icloud.com.
Then they have been deleted. There are many reasons for this. One possibility is that someone else is using the same iCloud account (family member, etc.) and they deleted contacts, thinking they did want them on THEIR device. How to get them back? Unfortunately, an iCloud backup does not include any of the sync databases, like contacts, notes, calendars, reminders, etc. because the data is already stored in these databases. Your only hope for restoring the data is if you had that data on a computer (like a mac's Contacts, Calendars, etc.) and that data was backed up using whatever backup software you typically use (e.g. Time Machine on a mac). Just restore the data files back to the computer. Other than that, I'm afraid the data is gone.

HT4859 I lost my contacts on outlook and now I have contacts only on icloud of iPhone 4 please tell how i can restore my contacts from icloud to my contact list in iPhone and to my outlook

I lost my contacts on outlook and now I have contacts only on icloud of iPhone 4 please tell how i can restore my contacts from icloud to my contact list in iPhone and to my outlook

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Use your back up on your mac/PC and re-add your contacts to Address Book or whatever contact software you use.

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Just sync your contacts to the same address book or cloud service you're syncing them with on the old phone.

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I delete contacts on my iPhone without having to go into each one to do it?

Yeah you can only do all with itunes.
On the phone itself you can only delete one at a time.
Go to the contact, choose edit, scroll down, at the bottom is a delete option.

When sending email messages from iPhone,iMac, or iPad, email address automatically added to my contacts list on iPhone. How do I trace this down and stop this auto addition of email addresses to my contacts list?

I am not sure what generates the email address as a contact, be it the iPhone or iMac. I use iCloud to sync up my contacts/address book. This appears to happen when I am using Mac Mail on my iMac, but I have no clue where to begin to look to stop this auto addition. I have looked in Mail preferences on my iMac and in my iPhone settings, but have found nothing that "automatically add email address to contacts list".
Can anyone provide guidance? Web search has been fruitless ( I am guessing I am not using the right key words for my search).

Hey jpoolewarren!
You can delete contacts by following the instructions in this link:
Contacts at a glance - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph3e0ca2db
Delete a contact. Go to the contact’s card, then tap Edit. Scroll down, then tap Delete Contact.
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

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After I updated my iphone 4 to ios 7.0.4 not only has my phone lagged terribly, but almost a week since the update my contacts list completely vanished. How can I fix that issue without further damage

So, I guess my iPhone upgraded without me being aware. But nevertheless I am now running iOS 7.0.4.
I've noticed the last few days that I'm encountering sporadic contact disappearance. I'll get a text, the notification shows their name, maybe a few minutes later i'll go to read the full message and now no name, just a number. I'll look and ALL my contacts are gone. the conversation screen has nothing but numbers and the favorites under phone are just numbers. Search can still work by name though so the phone "knows" that joe is 555-5555, but is not showing the connection.
TEMPORARY WORKING FIX:
Turning off contacts in my icloud settings and choosing to delete the contacts on my phone, then re-enabling contacts will pull them all back down for me. This of course takes about 5-10 minutes for everything to sync back to the phone.
I've tried restarting the phone.
I've tried resetting the phone.
I don't feel like wasting my time with a backup unless I can downgrade to something before 7.0.4 as it is obvioiusly buggy.
I am NOT going to set up as a new phone until this becomes a much bigger problem.
I hope this offers insight to others encountering this bug. My mother has had this happen on her phone as well. Please comment at least if you experience this. the more people that have it, the less chance apple can play it off as an isolated event on my phone.

How can I copy contacts from an iPhone without syncing my contacts to it?

I have a MacBookPro running Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I have two iPhones (4&5).
I have (automatically) backed up a THIRD iPhone4 in iTunes.
I have created a NEW iTunes library to keep this separate from my first two iPhones.
I want to copy the CONTACTS ONLY from this third phone without syncing - WITHOUT RISKING LOSING - my existing contacts on my mac and other two iPhones.
Please can somebody help?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
Bah wjo beat me

After setting up my contact list Favorites on my 5c (7.0.4), most contacts that I picked as Favorites are not appearing on my Mac contacts list. Little help?

I am syncing via iCloud.
For instance:
I have my wife listed in my Contacts list on my phone. I hit the button to add her to my Favorites and she is added, appearing on the Contacts list and Favorites list. No problems there, that's how it should work.
However, when I go to my Mac and sync my Contacts in to the Contacts app via icloud, everyone from my iPhone is in the Contacts app except for my wife and a few other people listed as Favorites. 7 of 9 (Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One) of my Favorites don't sync over to my Mac.
Any ideas why?
My Mac is running Mavericks but the problem existed with Mountain Lion as well.

Hi,
Have you checked the filtering option in contacts? Open contact menu button > filter. Perhaps you have a filter hiding the contacts.
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UNSYNC A CONTACT LIST FROM OUTLOOK WITHOUT DELETING FROM SHAREPOINT SITE

Hi,
I recently created a list of Contacts on a SharePoint site which I then connected to my personal Outlook so that I had the contacts synced there. How do I remove them/unsync them from my Outlook without deleting them off the SharePoint site?
Many Thanks.

Hi,
I assume you created a contact list in SharePoint 2013 and synchronized it to Outlook via Connect to Outlook per the link below:
https://hosting.intermedia.net/support/kb/default.asp?id=2429
If you would like to remove contacts from Outlook, you could right-click the folder in Outlook > Delete folder. This will remove it from Outlook and remain the contents in SharePoint.
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Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support

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I got my phone a couple of years ago and when it came in the mail, I wasn't home so my brother decided to set up my iPhone for me because he was so desperate to check the phone out. My iCloud account has been his account and it's been set up under his e-mail since the day I got my phone. Once he bought an iPhone, he set it up under the same e-mail account and now we share it. It's so annoying because all of my pictures and stuff are stored in my iCloud, but that's under his e-mail and I really want a new iCloud account but I want to transfer all of my iCloud information and pictures to my e-mail without losing them. Randomly, my brother has been receiving some of my facetime calls and I even turned it off so that it is only set on my device. I didn't even know he received any of my facetime calls until the other day when my friend told me. Now, our contacts are shared and I don't want that either. At one point during the summer, he was receiving my text messages as well. I turned all of those off under settings so they wouldn't be shared on his device, but I need to find a way to carry my iCloud stuff and set it up in a my own completely separate account. Please, please help me. I really am getting so frustrated with it and neither of us want to delete our accounts because we don't want to lose our iCloud stuff.

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