My contacts do not sync from my iphone over iCloud to my mac.

Sorry if this a repeat but I've searched and can not find an answer. I have an iphone and a mac book pro both os5 with the cloud set up to sync everything. When I snap a picture with my iphone it shows up on my mac no problem. However, when I add a new contact to my iphone, I can access the updated contact list from icloud.com on my mac, but the contact does not show up on my mac's contact list. I was under the impression it should? Again, I have sync contacts checked on both. Please advise. Thank you.

hi randers4 .... this might be the solution. Question, what do you mean by "if you have any contacts or calendar events on your iPhone or iPad that are not on icloud.com, add them there." Where is "there" and how do I get to "there".
Now,... I do have contacts and calendar that are on the iPhone but was not signed on to the cloud. Do have an ID and PW. So I logged onto the cloud .....that turn on the cloud on the iPhone and did a backup. Is that what you mean when you say add "them there" on the iphone?

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