My contacts in my iphone disappear

I have Iphone 4s and all my contcts are gone, how can I recover them?

Hi there snobbygirl,
I would recommend taking a look at the information found in the article below.
Recovering iCloud contacts, calendars, and bookmarks from an iTunes backup of an iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4108
-Griff W.

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TS3988 my contacts on my Iphone disappear when I enter my ICloud password

My contacts disappear on my IPhone 4 when I enter my ICloud password. Anyone else having the same problem, and what is the solution?

Prior to entering your iCloud ID and password, when turning on iCloud, were you using some other account? When switching accounts, data from the old account are deleted from the device. Otherwise when you turn on iCloud, you should still have the old contacts listed in "On My iPhone". Its the "iCloud" grouping that would contain new contacts that you enter to sync with icloud.

Wife and I have an Iphone 4s, she receives my text, but the history on my IPhone disappears as soon as I send a text to her. I also do not receive any of her text messages. Any ideas how to fix this?

Both my wife and I have an IPhone 4s. All of a sudden, when I text her, she receives my text, but the history on my IPhone disappears as soon as I send the text. Also, I don’t receive any of her text messages. Though while testing and trying to troubleshoot, I have sent a text message from her phone to my phone and I do hear the text sound message go off on my phone but no text. Though I on my icon, I do see I have 1 new text message and as soon as I click on it, the text message will disappear if it’s from her. Now I have noticed when I call her the history also disappears now. I can call her and she can call me from the phone successfully. Just can’t receive any of her text message and no history is retrieve from my phone. Can anyone please help??? Just to share, I have hard booted both phones, deleted and re-added our contact information and in the ‘Message’ settings, we both have the message ‘on’, Send as SMS ‘on’, MMS Messaging ‘on’ and under the ‘send and Receive’ field, it has my number listed with a 1 and area code…1 (210) xxx-xxxx.

There are a lot of posts in the forums today with people having problems with iMessage. There was also a published outage yesterday, so it's possible there are still some issues that may be impacting you both.
I would just wait it out - I'm sure it will be sorted out soon.

Contacts and calendar items disappear when exchange server is off

Hi All
I've been having this problem for a few weeks now and it's most frustrating. My iphone is setup to sync over the air to our corporate exchange server. It seems that when the server is down for repair/patching ALL my contacts and calendar items disappear from my iphone. This doesn't seem to happen if the phone is out of signal?
I know that I can sync directly with Outlook, however this would then mean that the phone is only updated when synced with my laptop at work. If I sync both over the air AND with Outlook, I get duplicates of everything in my calendar.
I'm not restoring my iphone to factory defaults to get rid of the duplicates and go back to over the air sync only.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get calendar and contacts to work "offline" when the exchange server is down?
Main PC is running Windows 7 and exchange is 2007. This problem is only recent, I think in the last month of two. Nothing has changed other than the last few firmware updates from Apple.

hi, cheers for the info. That would make sense, however how come when I'm out of signal and not connected to wifi, the data doesn't also disappear as that too would render the server "unavailable".
Is there a way to make the iphone keep a copy of the data much the same as "offline mode" in Outlook where you can still browse your email, calendar and contacts when the server is offline, and it picks up where it left off when the server is available again?
I appreciate this may not be a "problem" as such, but is frustrating as all my contacts and calendar live in Outlook and I can't function without them
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Contacts missing from iphone and outlook 2010

I have an IPhone 5c running 7.1.2 version and I sync it between my outlook 2010 contacts. I use Windows 8.1 and both my iPhone and laptop use my home wifi. I can add in new contacts to my iPhone and or laptop and they sync fine. Then a few days later the contact is gone. I can tell because when I start to email someone from my iPhone and type in their name the missing contact will come up with the circled I (more info) and ask me if I want to add it as a new contact. This is very frustrating, I have over 800 contacts all related to business and random contacts just go away. I have turned off icloud sync, turned it back on, refreshed it and nothing works. when it disappears it takes it off of my laptop too...

I did set all my email contacts to be on the phone, and checked the iCloud. Re-synced the phone with itunes on my macbook. I have turned the phone off and left it turned off for 10 minutes and then turned it back on.
The contacts I am seeking are still missing.
One in particular I know had no email address associated with it.
I'm about ready to quit my iphone.

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My contacts have just totally disappeared. Can anyone help please.?

My contacts have just totally disappeared. Can anyone help please.? I'm using iPhone 4S

If you have itunes on pc or icloud than i think your contacts should be there.
Have you tried to sync to itunes (make sure to check Sync Contacts and all contact options on itunes info tab), activate the icloud account on your iphone's contact option and show all contacts on groups tab on iphone's contact app?
I experienced the same problem and this helped me.

Outlook contacts duplicate on iPhone and all iOS devices

Hello,
I have been having this issue for quite some time and I have not been able to find anything that would solve my problem besides deleting the contacts manually.
So here is the deal:
In our business environment we use all kinds of iOS devices (mostly iPads and iPhones). So what happens is (at least in my opinion) outlook somehow duplicates the contacts and since we have the outlook contacts to sync on the phones and ipads, they also duplicate on the user's devices. This issue happens about every 2-3 months. When I go in and delete the contacts manually from Outlook, the contacts from the iOS devices sync with the Outlook contacts and the duplicates disappear, but sometimes I have to go in and manually delete them from the devices as well. It is really frustrating for the users because this issue happens often as I said.
The issue happens on iOS 6, iOS 7 and on iPhone: 4,4S, 5, 5S, iPad: 2, 3
What I've tried:
1. I deleted all the contacts manually and made sure they sync with the Outlook contacts. - WORKS TEMPORARILY
2. I turned off iCloud so that the contacts don't replicate among other devices using the same Apple ID - DOES NOT WORK
3. I deleted the duplicates and told the phone to sync less often not as soon as there is a change - WORKS BUT AFTER TIME STILL DUPLICATES
4. I contacted Microsoft for help with the issue and they told me that the issue is probably an iOS issue. - NOT REALLY SURE
Any help would be a appreciated it. I want to solve this issue once and for all.

After getting your Address Book contacts restored on your Mac, the Address Book application includes a simple backup feature.
At the menu bar, go to File and select Back Up Address Book.
The default name for the backup file will be Address Book - (and the date).
Store this file in a safe location - preferably on an external drive used for backup purposes only.
If you ever need to recover all Address Book contacts from the most recent backup file, at the Address Book menu bar go to File and select Revert to Address Book Backup selecting the Address Book backup file.
iCal includes the very same simple/easy backup feature.
Before using a sync type function with any device, creating a backup of the data to be synced is a good idea and should be your very first step. The same before making a number of changes, additions, deletions to the Address Book data. This shouldn't happen so something is wrong but it can happen which is one of the reasons for maintaining a regular backup of all important information.

HT201269 Contacts on my iPhone not showing on my iPad

Contact on my iPhone not showing on my iPad, how can I sync :)

Well, you nailed that one, thank you.
I had 3 accounts checked off: iCloud, Yahoo and "From my Mac."
When I unchecked my Yahoo contacts from my iPhone, the contacts that were not syncing to my Mac disappeared from my iPhone - so that explains why some of my iPhone created contacts were not syncing with my Mac.
Thanks again.
However, this now begs some new questions:
What is iCloud trying to tell me regarding that message in my account that says I can't review my devices unless I have iOS 8 and/or Yosemite?
When I am creating a contact, how can I tell if it is being saved in Yahoo or iCloud accounts?
How can tell what account a contact is associated with by looking at a previously created contact?
How can I transfer Yahoo contacts to iCloud?
And when I look at the accounts checked off under 'accounts' on my iPhone Contacts, what the deuce does "From my Mac" mean and imply?
Everything used to work fine when I first set up my iPhone and my Mac. What have I done to screw this up? lol

I was setting up an iCloud account. I set it up and the wanted to delete it. When I did that, I inadvertently deleted all my contacts off my iPhone. I don't think there was any backup. How do I get my contacts back?

Hi. I was setting up an iCloud account on my son's iPhone. We set up the account, but then decided to delete it. When we did, we accidentally deleted all the contacts from his iPhone. There was no backup done yet. I tried backing up his contacts in verizon backup, but that didn't work. Can anyone help p,was. He lost hundreds of contacts

If you deleted the account by going to Settings>icloud, scrolled to bottom of page and tapped Delete Account, then all you have to do is go to the same page an sign in using the same ID; be sure Contacts is turned on.

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An option for syncing contacts from iphone or ipad to iMac seems to be gone. From searching other posts on this topic, I see where contact sync is now "through iCloud" but is this the EXCLUSIVE choice for syncing contacts? In other words, there is no longer any sync of contacts NOT through iCloud; I cannot sync contacts from my iPhone to my iMac without it all being stored in the cloud.
This is absurd. My iCloud was hacked (not a password issue on my iMac or any local trojan/etc there are support threads about this) and tons of spam sent to my contacts when I used to sync through the cloud. I turned off iCloud sync for contacts and opted instead to sync from phone to mac and from iPad to mac and this was working just fine, keeping me nice and updated every day no matter where I modified any contacts.
Now it seems that is no longer possible. Is this by design? Why on earth was this removed? Is it a "feature" of these new products to remove working sync methods and force everything through the cloud??

The ability to sync contacts, calendar and browser bookmarks directly from a Mac running Mavericks to an IOS device via USB or WiFi has indeed been removed. Synching through iCloud, Exchange, WebDAV or a similar cloud service is the only option now. You can comment to Apple in this issue via their feedback page, if you wish:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Regards.

How do I get all contacts from my iphone 4 to icloud?

how do I get all contacts from my iphone 4 to icloud? I've just got some of them.

All you have to do is enable iCloud on your phone and turn notes on. They should automatically appear on your phone.

How do I get exchange contacts from my iphone up to iCloud?

How do I get exchange contacts from my iphone up to iCloud?
I am so bummed if there isnt a way....sigh
thanks, Jamie...

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I am so bummed if there isnt a way....sigh
Company Exchange account? If so, this is the way most employers want things.

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That is very strange... I wonder if it has something to do with the firmware or some sort of error. I haven't ran into this but at the shop I work at I've ran into several firmware errors on iPhone 4 all the way through the 5s. Maybe its something as simple as putting a different part of the code into iTunes... I know you can something of this extent. I would look up error 1669, I know you have tried a number of things but look it up on the forum and see what fixes are available so that you may be able to restore it properly without all this garbage you are running into. Just a thought for you.

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I organized my address book on my mac powerbook and then hoped to sync my computer's address book to my phone - in hopes of erasing all the junky contacts on my iphone and only having the my address book contacts on my phone.
I did all I could trying to make this happen (through iTunes) but it hasn't erased/replaced all of the contacts on my phone - I believe since my phone is synced to icloud. So I'm stuck with a very unorgaized contacts list on my phone...
How can I make it so I only have the contacts from my address book on my phone?
Thanks in advance,
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Also, I just noticed that syncing my phone effected my calendar in that all my events now repeat. So instead of having one event schedule on a day, I have two of the same events scheduled for the same time.
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