My ICloud Contacts are Outdated and bringing me problems ...

Basically my ICloud Contacts are outdated and I´m losing lots of new contacts that I have on my Iphone 5. I´ve recovered my IP5 Contacts several times by means of intializing my phone but ICloud keeps on bringing me the Old Ones. Is there a way to make the IP5 Contacts the appropriate ones on Cloud.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Double entries are possibly a result of your contacts being listed once as on your mac and again as in iCloud.
I'd start by making a back up of your contacts. If you have a simple duplication (as suggested above) you could select 'all iCloud' in users and groups, make sure nothing is typed in the search, select the first contact, shift select the last contact (to select all) and delete using the keyboard. If you have something more complicated than a simple duplication you may need to manually sort your contacts until you have a required list. Back up by dragging 'all contacts' from users and groups to your desktop.
Now disable contact syncing in the iCloud system preference panel and do the same on any other computer or in settings on any other iOS device, delete all contacts from thes other computers or devices.
Turn on contact syncing in the iCloud system preference panel and opt to merge data, you can now turn on contact syncing on other computers and devices.

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If your Bluetooth is working, you may be able to tether your phone to another device, and backup that way. Either via iCloud or one of many Apps that send yourself a VCF file containing your contacts.
You may have to update to a later IOS via USB and iTunes, not sure if IOS 6 has Bluetooth Tethering.
I would have thought you could also switch off cloud sync'ing for your contacts, this should ask a question if you want to keep the contacts on your phone. An iTunes Backup and then Restore to your new iPhone should restore the local contacts. Then sync these back to the iCloud.
Hope this helps.

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If you need assistance with finding any of your restores or attempting to restore from any that happened prior to his incident follow this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
IF you do find a backup that has your contacts; I'd /highly/ recommand turning off your wifi network after the restore is finished because if the issue is with your iCloud your contacts may merge back with her's.
With iCloud you DO NOT want to share the account; bad things happen Evil evil thigns...
But in all seriousness; if two devices have the same iCloud; iCloud is told to merge and sync infomation between hte two and can't tell that it doesn't belong to the same person

HT4910 what happens if your icloud contacts are accidently deleted? How do you retrieve the data?

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Everything that was on your classic should also have been in your library, and that backed up to another drive. If you manually managed the device, and it was the only location holding your playlists, and it has become corrupted, there really isn't much hope. See Corrupt iPod classic. There may be a chance to recover media stored on it if is isn't stored elsewhere.
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You should have been sycning them with your computer all along. Sync them from your computer back to the iphone.

Cannot add icloud account to Contacts so all my icloud contacts are stuck on the cloud and I can't actually get them on my desktop imac

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Yes that is all correct. Now, I think I know why it isn't working, I just don't know how to fix it. Several years ago before icloud really was up and going I used dropbox to sync my contacts between my computers. I suspect that is the problem. WHen I open Contacts in Maverick on my imac it knows there are vcards somewhere and asks if I want to add them. I click yes but then it sits there and does nothing. There is no "Library" file that I can find in Maverick to move that old address book file back to the application support file. That's what I have to figure out.

HT2500 I use Mail and Address book- since iCloud all my contacts are duplicated and my group distribution lists keep deleting addresses - help

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I've now done Literally every possible thing listed in the help
or that I was told to do in this thread, and nothing has worked.
Not sure what you mean. Have you tried uninstalling all the plug-ins as well? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Please help. Half my contacts are missing and think I've tried everything!

Hi there
Sorry this is a long post but I'm a bit desperate and hope you can help:
I dont have a PC or ipad or anything but do have an iphone 5 and over the weekend my emails (to my live.com account) weren't sending off my phone.
So I deleted the live/hotmail account and reinstalled the account. I noticed that upon re-installation there was no option for 'contacts', just 'notes' and 'calendar' but I didnt pay it much attention as I have an exchange account listed on my phone which features contacts, email, notes, calendar etc etc.
Yesterday out of the blue some of my contacts went missing (after sending a text to a person, a few hours later their name vanished). I deduced that all the contacts that had vanished were email addresses and newer numbers (over the past few years).
I still had the 334 numbers I've accumulated over the past 10 years.
So today - after looking at apple community help sites - I took the following steps:
- Checked all contacts groups were ticked (they were)
- Tried switching the contacts box on and off.
- I deleted my newly installed Live Account as it seemed unnecessary as I could send/receive emails on my exchange account.
- I then deleted my exchange account and re-installed it.
- Hey presto, all the numbers and emails addresses which had vanished came back.
- BUT DOOM... all my initial numbers have gone. This is really bad (relatives, work mates, boss etc etc all lost).
- So then I tried to look at how to ask iCloud to sync contacts but couldn't really find an answer anywhere.
- So I tried to log into my iCloud on a public computer to check what contacts I had and move them manually but after logging on (for first time ever) using my iCloud email address and also my live.com email address, no contacts we listed as being in the Cloud.
- In terms of synching data all I could find was an instruction to turn the 'contacts' tab in icloud off (whilst keeping contacts on iphone) then switching it back on and asking it to merge.
But this didnt achieve anything new.
- So I repeated the step above and then as instructed on one post selected iCloud backup. This hasn't helped either and I'm worried that I have updated my icloud to only include my Exchange contacts and not my old numbers.
So I'm panicking that i'll never get my important numbers back! Any advice?
My only glimmer of hope is that when I changed from iphone 4 to iphone 5 earlier this year, all of my data was switched using the icloud function (but possibly my live/hotmail account too), which suggests to me that icloud does have all the numbers.
I still have the iphone4 handset too - so could perhaps get the numbers off that? But I don't know how so any advice very welcome!!
Please.

I'm not sure if this will help you or not and you may have tried it already. But, I was having problems with my 20gb ipod (same one you have) and tried everything, including taking it to a local repair shop and even considered just chucking it. Then I read in one of these posts to simply reboot my computer. So I did and guess what, it worked. I felt like such an idiot but sometimes the simplest fixes are the ones you overlook. I don't know if itunes 7 needed a reboot or if there was a problem because other users (my wife) were logged into their user accounts also, but try doing that.
I hope that does the trick for you. If not, sorry I couldn't have been any more help.

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PS I don't have nor I ever used any other account for contacts.
I don't like it. =(( Because I don't understand why this happened.

Solved!
Turn on and off iCloud account for contacts.

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Check that the contacts meet the iCloud specifications.
Limits for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Bookmarks

ICloud contacts are all gone

Does anybody know how to get your iCloud contacts back after they are gone. They just vanished on me on all devices and on iCloud.com and I did not delete them. I have turned the iCloud switch on and off again and restarted my phone. My contact lists on both iOS devices, Macbook, and iCloud.com just disapeared along with my notes. They only thing I still have is my photo stream and email messages.
Thanks

You might want to give it some time to see if it's just a server glitch that will correct itself. Otherwise, you may be able to restore them from your iCloud backup by following Winston Churchill's user tip here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.

All my contacts are gone and won't sync up with cloud

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I am having the exact same problem. Not only will the contacts not sync, but when contacts is open, it slows down the ENTIRE computer. I installed Mountain Lion last night and the contacts list is the only thing that I have spotted that is having a problem. I even tried exporting the vCards from the iCloud website and contacts still won't accept it. I hope they come out with something to fix this quick.

ICloud contacts on iPhone and Gmail not syncing to Mac

A friend has an iPhone 5 (iOS 7.1) and a Mac Book Pro (OSX Lion). He wanted the contacts from his Gmail account to appear on his iPhone. This was easy enough - I just added his Gmail account to his iPhone under Mail, Contacts Calendars.
The problem - we want all of these contacts to sync with his Mac. Both if the iPhone and Mac have iCloud enabled with the same account. Accounts are set to sync. However, the only contacts appearing on him Mac are the ones that were already there. It's not syncing all accounts from his iPhone.
Any suggestions?

iCloud won't sync Gmail contacts, it will only sync iCloud contacts. If he wants to use Gmail for contacts, he should add his Gmail account to his Mac too. If all of the contacts on his phone are not appearing on his Mac after doing this, then some of them must not belong to the Gmail account and would need to be added to his Gmail contacts.
If he wants to use iCloud to sync his Gmail contacts instead, he can copy all of his contacts to iCloud as follows:
Go to Settings>iCloud on the phone, turn Contacts to Off, choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (any iCloud contacts will still be in iCloud).
Download the app My Contacts Backup. (If you have more than 500 contacts to transfer you will need the “Pro” version.) Use the app to back up the remaining contacts on your phone (from Gmail and any other non-iCloud accounts) as a vCard attachment to an email that you send to yourself. Confirm that you have received the email.
Go to Settings>iCloud and turn Contacts back to On.
Go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Default Account (in the Contacts section) and set this to iCloud.
Go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars…tap Gmail and any other non-iCloud accounts and turn off contacts syncing with these accounts (otherwise you will see duplicate contacts on your device).
Open the My Contacts Backup email and tap the attachment to import the contacts from the other accounts back to your device, and to iCloud.

ICloud contacts are blank.

My contacts were messed up after activating 4S. I corrected it manually on my desktop but iCloud went viral and kept reverting it back. So I deleted all contacts on iCloud. All my devises are good now but iCloud is a blank. Can you upload to it again?

Try going to settings, iCloud and turn contacts off. Since your iClouds contact list is empty, keep it. It will confirm you turned it off.
Now turn it back on. It will ask you if you want to merge the contact list from your desktop with iCloud's. Answer yes.
Then force an iCloud backup. Your contacts should appear in the contact list on the iCloud site.
Worked for me. Hope it works for you.

HT1766 After during a backup on iTunes I noticed 3 of my contacts are gone and tried to restore from a old backup, worked once and now it won't again. Why iTunes restore work correctly?

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