Restore Contacts with iCloud

I downloaded the app hot or not and all of my contacts were deleted. However, they are still on iCloud. How can I get them back on my phone as quickly as possible?

go into settins > icloud > turn off contacts, then turn them back on and choose "merge".
if that doesnt work, delete the icloud account and chose "keep on my iphone" then sign back in and make sure contacts are on and select "merge" again

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Restore contacts from iCloud?

My iPhone 4S up and decided I didn't have any contacts while I was on my way home. It wasn't synced to a laptop, it wasn't even connected to wifi. It just decided all by its lonesome to delete all of my contacts. I've logged onto my iCloud and I can see my contacts are still there, but how can I restore specifically my contacts without completely restoring my phone?

Contacts are not part of the iCloud backup, they are synced to your iCloud account instead. If you were syncing contacts with iCloud they would appear in your iCloud account when you sign in on your computer to icloud.com. If they aren't there when you look, you won't be able to recover them from iCloud.

Can't merge contacts with iCloud

I've updated my iPhone to iOS5 recently and everything's fine except for my contacts.
Once I open one of my contacts, it closes automatically and won't allow me to call anyone.
I've tried syncing my contacts with iCloud but once i switch to 'ON' and press 'MERGE', it closes again and goes back to the homepage.
I checked the iCloud settings again and it's still 'OFF', I can't seem to turn it on as it keeps closing the app.
Can anyone please help me?

Hi there - it's me again - found a solution which involved a totally clean restore as a new iPhone.
Do NOT USE an existing BACK-UP to restore or YOU'LL END UP WITH THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
When asked to sign on to iCloud ----DECLINE ---- then put your stuff back on piece by piece. After all that's done you can switch Contacts on in iCloud and Roberts your Auntie's husband.
Once all done back it up a few times to overwrite old existing back-ups.
Best of luck

HT3748 since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mac Mail no longer works well w/exchange email; so, I have had to switch back to outlook. Now, how can I use outlook for mac's calendar and contacts with icloud?

Since uprgading to Mountain Lion, my mac mail no longer works with my exchange email properly. I finally gave up and moved back to outlook for mac, but now my new issue is using outlook calendar and contacts with icloud; possible?

Sorry but I'm really not to sure what I have. I'm not good with knowing my computer model. All I know is that its a MacBook running with Leopard. I got my computer last year so I suppose its fairly new. Is there a place on my computer where I can check to see what it is (sorry to be so dumb with my own mac)
And everything else works fine. I love Safari. It's just my mail that doesn't work. Here's the message that pop up several times.
"The MobileMe IMAP server “mail.mac.com” rejected the password for user “akcastaldo”
Please re-enter your password, or cancel."
The only problem here is, even though I enter my password it doesn't do anything. It makes that message go away for about 3-5 mins. After that it pops right back up. And I can't even go into my preference and change my email password. So I don't know what to do.

Is there any way to restore contacts with no backup?

Is there any way to restore contacts with no backup on an iphone 4?

You could only restore them if there was somewhere to restore them from.
Have you failed to sycn them with your computer?

Sharing contacts with icloud

My iPad2 and iphone4s are no longer sharing contacts with icloud. I have checked everything I can think of. Please help

Thanks, both were checked, but I decided to turn off contacts on on the iPad, kept contacts, then turned on again. That worked at least so far. Thanks for helping me get my brain working!!

How can I synchronize my Outlook for Mac 2011 contacts with iCloud?

Don't works synchronize my outlook for mac 2011 contacts with iCloud. Someone can help me please?

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Get in contact with iCloud support

I can't receive mails on iClound, and haven't been able to it for more than 24 hours. But I can't get in contact with iCloud support. Mobilme had a chat-suppport, but how do you get help from iCloud support?

I would like to know the same thing. My icloud email account on my macbook pro and my iphone are non-functional

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synch Comcast contacts with iCloud contacts?

You can't sync any other contact sync services with iCloud contacts - it is an independent service.
You may be able to import Comcast contacts (whatever that is) into iCloud though for syncing between your iOS devices and computer. Ask comcast.

Merged my Contacts with iCloud and lost all new contacts

Hi all,
Mac OSX Lion. I made a bunch of new groups on my (desktop computer) contacts book, as I went through the contacts book, I reviewed and updated contact info for nearly a thousand contacts. I spent literally hours parsing out my client contacts into three client contact groups that I made.
I realized that I had never turned on iCloud syncing in the iCloud preferences. I turned on the Contacts Syncing option in the iCloud pref and was asked if I want to Merge my local contacts with iCloud. I said Yes. After the Merge was finished, the three new groups that I made had vanished, and all of the contacts that I had meticulously updated had gone back to their previous state.
Needless to say, this is really upsetting. Anyone else seen this problem? Any magic button I can press to bring back all of my hard work?
For what it is worth, after this fiasco, I decided to see if iCloud was working properly, created a few test contacts on my iPad, desktop computer, and notebook... all three worked perfectly by instantly sharing the info to each other.
The main problem appears to have been the "Merge" when I turned iCloud syncing on after having created a lot of new contact info on my desktop computer.

Your daughter must have signed into your iCloud account, perhaps when she updated her phone. You can confirm this by going to Settings>iClloud on her phone and seeing if she is using the same iCloud ID.
To fix this you would need to migrate her phone to a separate iCloud account. To do this, start by saving any photo stream photos that she wishes to keep on your phone to her camera roll by opening her my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tapping the share icon (box with upware pointing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll.
Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and provide the password when prompted to turn off Find My iPhone. This only deletes the account from her phone, not from iCloud; it won't effect your device(s). When you delete the account you will be asked if you want to keep or delete the iCloud data from her phone. If she needs to migrate a copy of the data to her new account, choose Keep; otherwise, choose Delete. Then sign back in with a separate Apple ID to create her new account and if migrating data to the new account, choose Merge when prompted.
Once she is on a separate account, if she migrated a copy of the data to her new account you can go to icloud.com from your computer, sign into her new iCloud account and delete your data from her account.

HT5824 Synchronizing iPhone exchange contacts with iCloud

How can I add exchange contacts on my iPhone to iCloud so that they synchronize with my other devices via iCloud?

If you want to sync your exchange contacts with iCloud, you'll have to copy them to the iCloud account. If you want to do that, do the following (this assumes that the only non-iCloud account you are syncing contacts with is your exchange account):
Go to Settings>iCloud, 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. If you aren't sure, start with the free version; it will tell you if you have more than 500 whdn you run it.) Use the app to back up the remaining contacts on your phone (from your exchange account) 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 your exchange account turn off contacts syncing (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 exchange account back to your device, and to iCloud.
* If you want to keep syncing with your exchange account, you'll have to open the contacts app, tap Groups, then tap the uncheck the exchange account so it's no longer in view. Otherwise you will see duplicates of these contacts on your device.

HT4859 Restore Contacts from iCloud

Can I restore the edited Contacts from iCloud into my iPhone that is not a new device?

Here is what happened. Somehow, I synced my iPhone with all of my Google contacts, which added unnecessary garbage to my iPhone contacts. Meanwhile, it automatically backed it up a few times on my iPhone and to the iCloud. In other words, I forever lost my clean phone contact list. Somehow, I only have gmail email list on my iPhone contact list.. bizarre... So, I went to iCloud and cleaned up the contact list since it's a lot easier to do on iCloud than directly on the phone. I even exported the Contact as a vcard into external file. But I can't figure out how to restore my Contact list by importing - either from iCloud, or, from external file into my iPhone.
Am I clear?

HT4859 Restoring contacts from Icloud

I am trying to restore my contacts from Icloud and it keeps telling me that my phone is too full. I have removed all apps and still says that there is a large amount of other stuff. What is that and how do I get rid of it so I can restore my contacts.

Here is what happened. Somehow, I synced my iPhone with all of my Google contacts, which added unnecessary garbage to my iPhone contacts. Meanwhile, it automatically backed it up a few times on my iPhone and to the iCloud. In other words, I forever lost my clean phone contact list. Somehow, I only have gmail email list on my iPhone contact list.. bizarre... So, I went to iCloud and cleaned up the contact list since it's a lot easier to do on iCloud than directly on the phone. I even exported the Contact as a vcard into external file. But I can't figure out how to restore my Contact list by importing - either from iCloud, or, from external file into my iPhone.
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Lost Informations when restoring Contacts with TimeMachine

Hello!
I've deleted my contacts from iCloud --- uups.
If i restore them from TimeMachine Backup, i get all contacts back into all iCloud, Smartphone and the Contacts App, but many informations are lost.
In the backup-view there are still there.
TimeMachine Informations for contact: "Bettina": a lot of numbers, address and more.
After restoring this item: you can see a view of silence.
So whats wrong? Any ideas how to get back my contacts with all it's informations?
Thanks a lot, regards!

Here is a list of what he can sync his contacts with:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305845

How to delete restored contacts in iCloud?

I've encountered an issue that's a 180 from the typical inquiry: how to delete restored contacts.
Several months ago I deleted many of my iCloud Contacts as the list was becoming unwieldy. (Used as a contact management database for business, it was numbering in the thousands and slow to search, load, etc.) All of my devices were synced and the process was smooth.
Until yesterday, when out of the blue, all of the deleted contacts returned to iCloud, iPhone and Address Book. No settings from the day prior had been changed.
So, is there a way to re-delete all of the unwanted contacts? Yes, I can go back and manually delete all of them, but that's time consuming, and what's to prevent them from magically returning?

Hey mzhill78
Remove you icloud contact information on all your IOS devices, go to the icloud setting on you ios device and turn off the addressbook syncing, when it asks you "do you want to remove keep the address on your ips device you say NO... So now your MacBook is the only thing syncing too the icloud.
Go to Addresbook and look for the menu option find duplicates.
After that wait for your laptop to sync this too icloud. to check give it about 2 min depending on how many changes log into your icloud account at www.icloud.com and check too see if the syncing has updated whats in the cloud.
If it has then urn on your addressbook syncing in iclouud settings on your IOS devices and all should be back too normal.
Hope it helps,
If this has sloved your problem please mark it as Solved thank you..

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