Share Contacts with iCloud

How do I share my contacts / address book with another iCloud (formerly MobileMe) user without having to add my account to their device? It's quick and easy with calendar's, but I must be overlooking something to do so with contacts.

This facility is not provided. You may be able to share using other services such as Google, though I can't advise on this.

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How do i share contacts on icloud between 2 iphones

I just updated my iphone 4s and want to share all the contacts on my wife's iphone 4s. How can this be done using iCloud?

It is difficult to reply to Winston Churchill, sir, but I feel compelled to pursue the question.
Your suggestion, which no doubtedly works, is not what I would call sharing.
I mean no disrespect: neither would you, if the matter was sharing of calendars.
In that case, you would say that we should mark any specific calendar and mention a different iCloud account and read-write rights. You need not know it's password. It is up to the email account of that iCloud account, to include these calendars or not. Since this is iCloud level privileges, it works like magic, on a desktop or when mobile.
Your suggestion cannot be easily used to share the contacts with a co-worker.
Knowing the password means you own the account, in my humble namespace this is not sharing.
I think there is no way to share contacts in iCloud, just yet, please correct me if I am wrong.
Sincerely yours,
Koray

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.

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.

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!!

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

How do I share contacts with other users on my network

How do I share contacts with other family members?

Click on the Sharing button in Contacts. Several options:
You can also select a bunch of contacts and Export them as vCards. Deliver them to the Family members via disk, thumb drive, email, Airdrop, etc.
If you mean "share" as in Calendar sharing, then that is not possible.

How can I share contacts with Android users via the "share contact" button via messaging or otherwise

Appologies in advance if this has been asked before.
I have an iPhone 5/iOS 6. My friend(s) use Android phones. At times, they request a contact I have, but every time I select "Share Contact" via the button in my iPhone's Contact list, either as an Email or Message, they recieve an unusable file format - in other words, it just doesn't get to them. If I manually copy and paste the fields into a txt, they will get the info. Is there an app, or something I need to do differently to be able to share contacts with Android users via the "Share Contact" button in iOS?
Thanks,
Nathan

Shouldn't be an issue here, as the iPhone shares the contact info in standard vCard format.

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?

Outlook 2011 for Mac is not compatible with iCloud Contacts & Calendars because Microsoft do not support the industry standard CardDAV and CalDAV protocols that iCloud uses.

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

I have 10Gb of photos on my iphone, so can choose only half of it (5Gb) and share it with icloud and leave the rest on my phone storage, or i must share all photos and videos (my whole camera roll)

I have 10Gb of photos on my iphone, so can choose only half of it (5Gb) and share it with icloud and leave the rest on my phone storage, or i must share all photos and videos (my whole camera roll)

No. Your iCloud account only includes your the camera roll photos stored in the backup. And they can only be accessed by restoring the backup to your phone. Also, if you delete any photos from your camera roll and continue to back up, the backup that contained the deleted photos would be overwritten by one that doesn't and they would be lost.
If you want to save some of them and delete them from your phone, import them to your computer as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
Another option is to import all of them to your computer and delete them from your phone, then put the ones you want on your phone in a folder and sync them back to your phone by selecting the folder on the photos tab of your iTunes sync settings and syncing. The advantage of this approach is that synced photos are placed in an album called Photo Library, which is not included in the iCloud backup (since they are already backed up on your computer), thereby saving space in your iCloud account (which only backs up camera roll photos).

Can I synch Comcast contacts with iCloud contacts?

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.

Can I share contacts with a MacBook running 10.6.8

I have recently completed a pretty thorough equipment refresh, but I have one older MacBook running 10.6.8 (which is too old to upgrade to 10.8.2) that I'd like to keep in use.
So far so good, except that I can't find a way to share contacts with this from my machine. Is there a workaround that would allow me to sync this machine with contacts on an iPhone 5 or MacBook Pro (10.8.2)?

I might have been too fast on the solved. I did call Apple. As equipped I can't run Lion on the MacBook. But they said that if I upgraded the RAM, the Macbook would even run 10.8.2. The RAM upgrade costs about the same as the Lion upgrade so the cost is the same to me.
Will follow up with another "solved my question" after the installation completes successfully.

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.

Can I connect more than one iCloud account at the same time to share contacts with s.o.

Is it possible to use/connect 2 or more iCloud accounts with my iOs device in order to share my contacts with somebody (Account 1) and still have another addressbook for contacts that should not be shared (account 2)?
The other person should be able to connect to Account 1 too.

No, you can only connect to one iCloud account.

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