Sync'ing contact info?

If when I make a change to a contact on my iPad if does not automatically sync over to my iPhone, what is the best way to get the info over to my phone?

The best way is to use the type of contact account that synchronizes between Apple devices. One such account type is an iCloud account.

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Syncing new contact info on iPhone to iMac!

Hello, HNY to all!
This may have been asked elsewhere in these discussion forums but haven't been able to find anything yet.
Over the last few months I've added new contact info directly to my iPhone and now want to sync this back to my iMac. Is this doable to sync info from iPhone to iMac?? I haven't tried this yet and don't want to lose any contact info.
Thanks in advance.
Dominic

When you sync your iPhone on iTunes, on the Summary page select Info and then select what you want to sync, in your case, sync Contacts.
If you have Mobile Me, check Contacts in the list of items you want to sync with Mobile Me.

PLEASE HELP! Facebook synced my contact info with someone else?

so basically, I downloaded the new ios 6 and was happy with the facebook syncing with my contacts. My friend who is also an iphone user did the same and realised that my contact info on her phone was coming up with my name and number and personal email but someone elses profile picture and 'facebook email'. when i looked at my own contact info on my phone it was the same case? i would really like to know how to get rid of this! HELLLPPP

It can not do that all by itself.
When you plugged it in, iTunes said 'Oh goody! You got a new phone! Would you like to make it just like your old phone?'...
You explicitly said 'Yes'.
You can't undo that.
No backup of the current state of the new phone was made. It was wiped and the last backup of your old phone was restored to it.
Anything you had on the new phone is gone.

Sync'ing Contacts - Changes to Contacts on Computer

When syncing contacts using iTunes between Outlook and iPhone, I receive a message that says it will "change more than 5% of the contacts on this computer."
Does anyone know exactly what will be changed in my Outlook contacts? Data deleted out of the contacts? If so, I can't sync my contacts as all contact information in Outlook is important.

Did you assign rigntones or pictures to individual Contacts in the iPhone? This data will attempt to sync back into Outlook as new data in the entry. It should not overwrite any existing data, even through the concept of a ringtone is not supported in most Windows & Mac apps.

Address Book/Sync Destroying Contact Info

Address Book crashed on me yesterday and destroyed/deleted about 600 records (of ~650). It replaced the data file with something very old (more 2+ years old). It then synched with my Entourage data base deleting all the same contacts without warning. It then deleted them again on my .Mac account before I could stop the sync. I have started to rebuild the database and I notice that it is starting to delete info on some records. For example: I have 3 email addresses I use and I just noticed that it has deleted two of them after a sync.
What is going on and how do I stop it?!

The exact same thing is happening to me. I had to spend about an hour yesterday correcting the mess across 4 Macs - wasted time. It is really a shame that Apple has not been able to sort out something this basic.
I have read several posts in the past that the sync function is not stable - my experience of yesterday would support that view

Sync'ing contacts to iTunes

How do I sync my iPhone contacts to iTunes ?

http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf

Sync'ing contacts with Outlook no longer works

Ipod Nano 4gb with latest iTunes 7.02.16. Problem was also present on previous version of iTunes.
At one time, for a while after I bought my iPod nano, I could sync my Outlook contacts. It used to popup a message in Outlook asking for permission and I would say, yes, 10 minutes or whatever.
Now iTunes just keeps saying "Cannot sync contacts with Outlook, try closing all instances of Outlook and restarting" but that suggestion does not solve the problem.
Anybody know how to fix this?
cheers,
steve
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You should probably post your question in the iTunes or iPod discussions

Can no one help? Sync'ing iPhone with a new computer after crash on old PC

Hi all,
I'm hoping any lack of response was because you were taking time off at Christmas and not that I defeated the best of the bests.
Hopefully your reply is simply a case of saying 'YES!' to the steps below.
Here's a sort of potted timeline history as to what has occurred:
My iPhone 3GS was backed up via sync to 2 different location PCs.
The main location was here at 'home' where I managed my Music Library and Apps on a Vista based laptop.
My 'Work' PC simply dealt with sync of Contacts with a folder in Outlook.
The home PC was backed up fully typically once a fortnight.
A few weeks ago, my home PC had a catastrophic failure and it is clear I can't recover from the HDD.
I restored the key folders from the backup to a 'from backup' folder on the new PC and not the same folder structure as it has Windows 7.
From this folder I moved the entire contents of my music folder into Windows 7's music folder (and there is a sub-folder in there called 'itunes').
So, after reading a couple of threads, bizarrely enough, this one on iPad seems the nearest scenario to mine http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11527315
user, 'virtualgeo' summarises neatly the steps of sync'ing so I guess this would figure the same here but with an iPhone?
I'veinstalled the latest iTunes on my new PC and I'm ecstatic to see all my music and apps appear on running up iTunes for the first time.
I've gone to Edit>Preferences>Devices and checked the box next to "Prevent your iPod from automatically syncing" (However I see no previous backups being shown in this window. Is it worth recovering this from my backup?)
I've also authorised the new computer successfully.
So I was going to continue following virtualgeo's steps in the thread but not sync'ing contacts if that looks sensible?
Anything else I should do before connecting my iPhone to iTunes?
And out of interest, should I be backing up my iTunes separately to my PC backup?
Many thanks in advance!

Well I forget the exact keys, but believe pressing and holding down CTRL before clicking Restore will allow you to browse and find the backup file (may be wrong).
In the end, as far as the iPhone thinks, it is a new computer so it will erase and resync stuff and as long as you loaded everything back into iTunes all should sync back. Main issue is other stuff like the data within the apps, notes, etc that are part of the backup which is why you would want to try to restore from the backup. If you don't mind losing data in apps (eg: do you care you have to relog into some apps and start over, don't care about game scores, etc) then you don't have to worry about the backup. If you have important data in some of those apps then you will need to restore from the backup.

Steps to Sync'ing iPhone with a new computer after crash on old PC

Hi all,
My first post here and please allow me to say I reluctantly post as I hate wasting peoples time but could do with some handholding and advice. Hopefully it's just a simple case of you guys saying 'YES!'.
Here's a sort of potted timeline history as to what has occurred:
My iPhone 3GS was backed up via sync to 2 different [location] PCs.
The main location was here at 'home' where I managed my Music Library and Apps on a Vista based laptop.
My 'Work' PC simply dealt with sync of Contacts with a folder in Outlook.
The home PC was backed up fully typically once a fortnight.
A few weeks ago, my home PC had a catastrophic failure and it is clear I can't recover from the HDD.
I restored the key folders from the backup to a 'from backup' folder on the new PC and not the same folder structure as it has Windows 7.
From this folder I moved the entire contents of my music folder into Windows 7's music folder (and there is a sub-folder in there called 'itunes').
So, after reading a couple of threads, bizzarely enough, this one on iPad seems the nearest scenario to mine http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11527315
user, 'virtualgeo' summarises neatly the steps of sync'ing so I guess this would figure the same here but with an iPhone.
So I've just installed the latest iTunes on my PC and I'm ecstatic to see all my music and apps appear on running up iTunes for the first time.
I've gone to Edit>Preferences>Devices and checked the box next to "Prevent your iPod from automatically syncing"
However I see no previous backups being shown in this window. Is it worth recovering this from my backup?
I've also authorised the new computer successfully.
So I was going to continue following virtualgeo's steps in the thread but not sync'ing contacts if that looks sensible?
Anything else I should do before connecting my iPhone to iTunes?
And out of interest, should I be backing up my iTunes separately to my PC backup?
Many thanks in advance!

a) this is just a nudge if you're getting over Christmas or
b) Have I defeated the best Apple brains?

I need help syncing my contacts between Outlook and iPhone using iTunes. I followed the steps given and ended up with just email addresses showing in my contacts even though I have phone numbers and snail mail in my Outlook Contacts. Using Windows 7

I need help syncing my contacts between Outlook and iPhone using iTunes. I used the knowldge document and set it up to transfer my Outlook contacts to the iphone using itunes.
In contacts on the iphone I only see the email addresses.
Yet in Outlook I have email, snail mail and phone numbers.
I followed the knowledge document from iphone.
I did it once, didn't work so deleted all the contacts from the phone and tried again. Same result. I have a PC using Windows 7 64 bit.

You can't access an Exchange account via ActiveSync with the Address Book and iCal on your Mac.
You can access a MM account with Outlook on your PC at work and keep your MM email account server stored mailboxes synced between your PC at work, your iPhone, and the MM "cloud". Not sure about syncing MM contact info and calendar events with Outlook at the same time with an Exchange account.
This will not provide for syncing your Exchange account contact info and calendar events with the Addresss Book and iCal on your Mac because the accounts are separate.
You can access an Exchange account and a MM account at the same time with the iPhone's mail client, and sync contact info and calendar events over the air with both accounts at the same time. You can view combined contact info or separately for each account, and the same for calendar events.

Contacts and Calendar not sync'ing with Outlook 2010

All was fine today until (maybe coincidental - maybe not) I had a Microsoft Exchange email account added to my Outlook 2010. I have an iPhone 4, and I usually sync daily, especially when calendar or contact changes take place. I am currently not using the icloud, so all contacts and calendar events would be way too outdated.
I have checked my Outlook settings under "info" and cannot get my contacts and address to load. I even see the "Contacts syncing"..."calendar sync'ing" when the overall iTunes sync takes place with my iPhone.
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HT1296 When I sync my iphone with Windows 7, the contact moves to my computer, but the contact is not complete. No phone numbers. What am I doing wrong? I have also tried sync-ing with Yahoo, and that doesn't work either.

When I sync my iphone with Windows 7, the contact moves to my computer, but the contact is not complete. No phone numbers. What am I doing wrong? I have also tried sync-ing with Yahoo, and that doesn't work either.

The music sync is one way - computer to iphone. The only exception is itunes purchases. File>Transfer Purchases
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to move everything to your new computer.

During sync, new contacts on my iphone are deleted. The option in iTunes to replace contacts on my iphone is not selected. Is there a way to merge info on sync instead of replace?

During sync, new contacts on my iphone are deleted. I'll typically add any new contacts I get directly to my iphone, simply because I don't have my mac on me at all times. However, unless I specifically add the contact to my mac address book, it will be deleted from my iphone contacts upon sync. The option in iTunes to replace contacts on my iphone is not selected. Is there a way to merge info on sync instead of replace?

Thank you for your reply. I realy have nothing else to sync - no music. Emails do work so its just my contacts I am concerned about. I'm kinda new at this but have a working understanding of the system.
I have an icloud account but the Geek Squad went there and tried but could not export contacts. I truly am not that good re icloud. They worked exclusively with my itunes, re-downloading, etc - all of the stuff in their book.
I have not tried a complete restore because I am not sure I am that good with the equipment but could. I did all of the stuff on the help page - sync reset, forced one-way sync etc but the phone just does not seem to recognize the sync. I have not gone to an Apple store to have them have a look - that may be my next step to hook up to another itunes computer. It seems simple to me - it was working fine until maybe 3 months ago - probably when there was an update. Its telling to me that the phone does not tell me there is a sync in process while itunes is saying there is - its just not biting between the 2.
I appreciate any hep - and I said, I not stupidi about these things but have kind of reached as far as I am comfortable with fear of doing something really wrong.

What is the best way to have Mac setup for sync-ing 2 calendars? Any way to change? When we 1st got our Macbook we unknowingly set it up wrong--as 2 separate users, with separate everything. Good for contacts and email, bad for calendar, photos, music.

What is the best way to have Mac setup for sync-ing 2 calendars? Any way to change? When we first got our Macbook we unknowingly set it up as 2 separate users, with separate everything. Now I have an iphone and I want to sync calendars but not contacts or email. Any direction you could give would help! thx

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Sync contact Info (and related)

I have seen some discussion on these boards regarding this issue, but I am still not quite believing what I am reading. I thus hope I am misunderstanding it or the tech has since changed.
If I understand the previous board discussions, it is no longer possible to transfer (not back-up, but sync) data like contact info between a Mac computer and an Ipod or similar Apple device without iCloud.
To be more clear, if I have my iPod 5 attached to my Macbook Pro via a USB cable, I am completely unable to sync my contact data between the two via the hardwire connection. Instead, I have to send that data over a network, through the internet, to a server somewhere, and then back down to other device.
Is that correct?
If that is not correct, then please tell me how that is done, or point me to the article that tells me. And I do not mean one where it discusses installing a server. I want to PLUG IN, TRANSFER, THEN UNPLUG, and go about my life.
If that that IS correct, can anyone at Apple, or anyone else, give me an sensible reason why they would make hardwire transfer completely impossible, rather than leave it one of many options available to the user?

Yes if the Mac Has Mavericks
If you use OS X Mavericks v.10.9 or later, your contacts, calendars, and other info are updated on your computers and iOS devices via iCloud. For more information, see iCloud Help at icloud.com.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12117

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