Turn off contacts

My Mac Apps to not handle contacts well and I have syncing problems too. On both my iphone and ipod if I turn off contacts in the icloud settings the wheel will turn until I turn the device off - then it will still show as "ON" when I turn it back on. I am not being impatient - I cn leave them all night plugged in the power and the wheel will still be turning in the morning. Short of resetting the device - again - anybody got a tip?

I am experiencing the same problem with both Ipad and iPhone, no problem with outlook and Mac.
I tried your sugestion but still having the same problems.
Thanks in advance.

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It will delete them from your device but not from iCloud. Also, when you turn contacts off, you will get a prompt asking you if you want to keep them on your device. If you choose Keep on My iDevice, a copy will stay on your device. It will still include your mom's contacts though so you will need to go through and delete her contacts from your device afterwards. Caution: be sure NOT to delete her contacts from your device before you turn off contact syncing with iCloud. If you do, you will delete her contacts everywhere and they will be lost.

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Thanks for the quick reply.
So, followed your suggestions. First thing I noticed was that after deleting data from iPhone, contacts were still on my iPhone. Not sure how to delete contacts all at once, so that's another question.
Second, I logged back in to iCloud after deleting the iCloud account as you recommended. After doing so, I turned Contacts back on ... and it started ... and asked to Merge which I did. No joy.
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Tom .. No, I was just using google. Not http etc.
I really think that was enough last week. We messed with some of
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Yang .. I did what you said. No Joy! Thanks anyway.
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Maybe I'm wrong about it working last week?
Typing .com every time isn't the end of the world. But
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I simply want to know how to turn off iCloud* without losing my contacts

Call me old fashioned, but I really do NOT want to use iCloud EXCEPT for ONE THING*: and that's to find my phone, ipad or laptop if it goes missing.
Having said that, I have figured out how to turn off icloud on my ipad and my iphone (I am not using the phone as a phone, just as a glorified ipod) while keeping the "find my ipad/iphone" function active, BUT
I can't quite figure out how to do it on my laptop.
I seem to have done it already for photos, and for the calendar, (I know this from checking iCloud to see what it's got) but just cannot figure out how to turn it off for contacts.
And YES, I've backed up all of those things at LEAST 3 different ways, I just don't want the Cloud to be one of them.
So can anyone tell me how to turn off contacts in the cloud without it also magically deleting them in my laptop? (I had it happen on the ipad, that's why I'm worried.)
Thank you for understanding-I'm older and this stuff just keeps getting more complicated and I'm a simple person. I'll back up my own stuff!

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Alicia

Alicia,
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Alicia,
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