Some of my contacts were deleted upon setting up iCloud

set it up on my Macbook first, then my phone. When I went back into my phone just a bit later, some of my contacts were deleted, alot of them only have a Facebook email, birthday and Facebook IM left, no phone #'s or any other info I might have had. Again, if they weren't Facebook friends, they didn't get altered. Just seeing if there is a way to get all my #'s back? Thanks

Check under Settings > iCloud to see if the Contacts switch is ON (green side showing). If it's already on, switch it off for 30-60 seconds, then back on again. Your contacts should start showing up shortly.

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I have exactly the same problem on my ipad. It is happening on only some contacts but, as with you, when I delete one of the contacts on the ipad, the second ipad contact and the contact on the imac are also deleted. This is even the case when I have differentiated the two contacts on the ipad and can see the one I have deleted on the ipad is not the same one as is then deleted on the imac.

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Do you see those in www.icloud.com? Yes- sign in to icloud on the phone.
No- how did you get those to the ipad?

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The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
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Hi bmfowler,
bookmarks are linked to your profile (irrespective of what FF version you are currently on) this profile should be left intact by an upgrade/downgrade.
First thing I would do would to be run -> %appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/ (standard profile location) to figure out whether the old profile (with the bookmarks) is still available. If so proceed with the
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile recovery].
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
jm

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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Please read before going through with this procedure.
If you really want your contact back and you did not do another iCloud backap since you deleted some of your contacts, you can do a hard reboot on both devices with iClouded contacts by holding down the home and lock buttons on each of them for 10 seconds ignoring the slide to turn off thing. Make sure you have iCloud contact services off before doing so. You can then go through the whole set up process until you get up to the backup part. You then press to restore from an iCloud backup (make sure you choose the right backup for the right phone). If you didn't make an iCloud backup before the contact incident, you will have to use your two-month-old iTunes backups. Each phone should have their contacts the way they were from your last backup. You then go into Settings>iCloud>and turn off contacts. You then can choose if you want to keep your current contacts or not. Turn this off on both phones just incase you add another iCloud device to the mix later on. Now your contact lists are no longer linked (Caution: side effect may include lack of edit button). You may now add and delete contacts as you please without it happening on your other phone.
Thank you for choosing Apple.

Contacts were deleted by an activesync device, but why?

Hi,
our CEO has an exchange account where he adds all his contacts. Now there are 2778 contacts.
For some reason, sometimes his contacts gets deleted and I guess, that it depends on one of his mobile devices. He has his Samsung S5 and Apple iPad mini which he uses all day long. And he has a S4 mini which is only a backup phone.
Is there something like a conflict rule on the exchange server which said: If here is a conflict, use the content on the mobile device to synchronize?
Or is there an option on the exchange server, which doesnt allow the mobile devices to delete all contacts or mails at the same time?
Thanks for your help.
Thomas

Hi ,
Based on my knowledge if we delete the contacts from outlook it will get deleted in active sync device and reversal.But it won't get deleted automatically.
Is there something like a conflict rule on the exchange server which said: If here is a conflict, use the
content on the mobile device to synchronize?
None of the contacts will be deleted due to multiple devices configured for a single account.
Or is there an option on the exchange server, which doesn't allow the mobile devices to delete all contacts or mails at the same time?
Based on my knowledge there is no such kind of option.
In exchange you can enable the mailbox auditing for the critical mailboxes to avoid such kind of issues and with the help of the audit logs you can able to find out who has deleted the mailbox items even you can track mailbox owner activities also.
Thanks & Regards S.Nithyanandham

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As the title says. I've lost all of my contacts, from both phones and icloud.

That's the way things are supposed to work...all devices using the same iCloud account are kept in sync. You delete on one device, & it deletes on all, including iCloud. Unless you have a backup that contains your contacts, or they are in a supported application on your computer, they are gone.
You should have deleted the iCloud account, on the iPhone 4, before giving the phone away.

After I installed the new OS, all of my contacts were deleted!

All of my contacts were gone.
All of my stored texts.
All of my stored voice mails.
And my phone was updated to 4G from 3G.
There was no warning that this would happen. Can anyone help?
Retrieving my contacts is the most troublesome part of this! I went into the AT/T store, and they said that Icloud was turned off on my phone, and I would need to call Apple directly. HELP!
Thanks.

Again, we took it to an AT/T store...which means that they checked our backup/ICloud...they said it had been turned off. This is so frustrating.
Any advice besides calling Apple?

Some of my contacts were deleted upon setting up iCloud

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