Phone contacts partially missing

Help, is there a known issue with iPhone 4s and the recent IOS 7.1 update that would cause my contacts to reset to old data? I backup my contacts regularly and all were on my phone last night when I powered off. This morning, after powering on the phone, I noticed that my contacts appear to have reset to some arbitrary old date (roughly 1 year ago and all new contacts I've added since that date vanished. Also, text tones set have reset to default, even for the contacts that did not disappear. Is this an iCloud sync issue? Any one have a suggested fix?

Thanks for the reply. Actually, there is even less contact Dara on my iCloud account than is on my phone. It seems like Apple's server lost data or is perhaps down / partially offline. I receive notifications of when last auto contact backup has occurred and know that I also did a forced backup this year in Late Jan, but I'm missing contact data that was entered last Summer. Anyone else experiencing a similar issue?

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I'm not positive, but I believe I read that it may have to do with the number of contacts that are in the contact list. If it just a few, that slider doesn't show up. Do you have the latest version of iPhone software installed?

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Hi, something happened to my iphone 5. phone contacts for all/missed contacts have disappears and new collects and calls are not registering.

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I updated 4s to 6,1,1 and all the phone numbers are missing in my contacts,

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On iPhone, open Settings -> iCloud
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You are DONE.
This was fix for updating to IOS5, but it sounds like you are having a similar issue to this.
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Missing phone contacts

i have just bought an i phone 4, in the shop the assistant transferred my Blackberry phone contacts from the sim to my i phone smaller sim card.
these telephone contacts are in my i phone somewhere, but i can't use them as every time i go to contacts the whole list of email contacts i have in outlook comes up and no phone numbers.
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The iPhone does not store contacts on the SIM card in any way. Contacts are saved in the Contact application and are designed to be synced to a supported application on your computer. Information about the supported applications is found in the User Guide.
You mention Outlook containing email addresses, it should also contain phone numbers as that is how they are designed to be stored, and Outlook is one of the supported applications I mentioned earlier. If the only part of your contacts saved from your Blackberry to your SIM were email, then therein lies the problem. You can, however, try and see if the shop you mentioned transferred your contacts to the mico SIM and select transferring contacts from the SIM to the iPhone. That is done in settings. Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar and select Import contacts from SIM. It all depends on how the transfer was done.

HT1689 Phone contacts missing

I can't see my phone contacts, all I see is email address when I push the phone icon. how do I fix this?

Step 1
Open iTunes on your computer by double-clicking the iTunes icon on your desktop.
Step 2
Plug your iPhone into your computer using the USB cable that it came with.
Step 3
Right-click on "iPhone" on the left hand side of the iTunes window under the "Devices" column.
Step 4
Select "Restore From Backup" and choose the backup version to which you want to restore the iPhone from the list in the drop down menu.
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Wait for the restore to complete and eject the iPhone from iTunes. Click the "Eject" icon located beside the device and unplug it from your computer. Scroll to your contacts in the iPhone to locate the previously deleted contacts.

Can I delete all the contacts from Facebook in my phone contact list.. !!!

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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!!
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HT1766 I have manually back up my iphone few days back, and my contact got missing the next day. i restored my back up from iTunes, however, my contact did not get restored. How do i check if the manual back up did actually back up my contact or not?

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Your entire second paragraph is so confusing I am going to ignore it.
But I may be able to answer your first and third paragraphs, which seem to address the same question.
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HELP! I've been using my iPhone consistently for ALL phone numbers, since I have serious memory problems due to fibromyalgia. I upgraded my phone last night finally, having moved my photos out of it I had the space to download and install the upgrade.
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I had thought it was set to sync to iCloud but it vanished from BOTH my phone and the cloud. That's why I'm so angry about it.

HT4623 when update was complet on my Iphone all my contacts where missing

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I used my Mom's computer to update my iPhone. Unfortunately, it added all her address book phone contacts to my phone book. I deleted all her contacts, but it won't let me delete her "groups" from the group list--even though the groups are "empty." Any way to delete her groups from my iPhone?

I wouldn't have been condescending had you included that you no longer have your own computer with your original post or with your reply to my post and thanked me for replying and trying to help. Those that answer questions and offer suggestions here volunteer their time to do so. Not only did you not thank me for trying to help - someone should have manners when being helped regardless if the helper is being paid to do so but even more so when the helper volunteers their time, you didn't even read what I provided very carefully. Bad enough not having any manners when asking for help, but you should at least read what is provided somewhat carefully.
That being said, I'm not wanting to make you feel stupid. I appreciate at least minimal manners and a thanks on your part. Please don't answer if you are going to be completely mannerless with someone who is volunteering their time to help you.
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Since you synced your contacts with your Mom's Address Book, your iPhone contacts should be available in your Mom's Address Book and your Mom's contacts and Address Book Groups should be available on your iPhone.
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Were your iPhone contacts replaced/deleted with your Mom's Address Book contacts?

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