Using iCloud as Contacts Backup?

Hi,
after upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud, I got some issues with my contacts. They seem to be duplicated, although all native apple apps swallow the dupes (e.g. "miCal" doesn't). Now the miCal team asked me to delete all contacts on my iPhone and get them back from iCloud. Is that possible? I guess when deleting contacts in the iPhone, they should also be deleted in the cloud?
Thanks for making me wiser :-)

You should never lose contacts under any circumstances.
Although contacts are included with the iPhone's backup, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer where such important data should be available with or without an iPhone or any cell phone. Not a good idea to depend on a cell phone for such important data which can be lost or stolen or damaged beyond repair.
In addition, there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air including an iCloud account, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail.
If you are not syncing contacts over the air with an iCloud account and not backing up your iPhone wirelessly with your iCloud account, your iPhone's backup is being updated by iTunes on your computer which is updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
With Windoze, contacts can be synced with Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 along with syncing calendar events, notes, and reminders, or with the address book app used by Outlook Express and by Windows Mail called Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only. With a Mac, contacts can be synced with the Address Book app. This is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
If the supported address book app on your computer is not used and has no contacts available, before the first sync for this data enter one contact in the supported address book app on your computer. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select.

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i have a 5c. 8gb. Constantly running out of space to take images when I'm travelling. Is it possible to use iCloud to store images/video, delete the image from my phone, allowing me to be able to take more images using the phone, but still get access to the "deleted" images/video via iCloud when I get home Or view them on my device I.e use iCloud as additional storage and not just "back up".
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if I get on wifi, and do a back up, the deleted image will be removed from iCloud??
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In its current state, iCloud offers backup which does include photos but is only designed for use when completely restoring a phone after a problem and it offers Photo Stream which is designed for transferring photos from one device to another device. Neither of those is what you are looking for. According to the following link to iOS8 Preview (to be released this Fall), a solution for you is coming soon: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/photos/
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I have an iPhone 5 which i need to send to repair for few days. Device is fully backup with iCloud.
I have a backup iPhone 4 to use for the week i wont have my iPhone 5.
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However, after that you'll have to access the documents via the iCloud Drive icon in the Finder sidebar and not via your current Documents folder.
You might be able to sync your documents folder to the Documents folder in the iCloud Drive on your Mac with a syncing application like Synk Pro, ChronoSync or similar.
You'll also have to purchase additional iCloud Drive space in order to accommodate your files via the System/iCloud preference pane:
at these prices:

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Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
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You should never lose contacts under any circumstances.
Although contacts are included with the iPhone's backup, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer where such important data should be available with or without an iPhone or any cell phone. Not a good idea to depend on a cell phone for such important data which can be lost or stolen or damaged beyond repair.
In addition, there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air including an iCloud account, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail.
If you are not syncing contacts over the air with an iCloud account and not backing up your iPhone wirelessly with your iCloud account, your iPhone's backup is being updated by iTunes on your computer which is updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
With Windoze, contacts can be synced with Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 along with syncing calendar events, notes, and reminders, or with the address book app used by Outlook Express and by Windows Mail called Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only. With a Mac, contacts can be synced with the Address Book app. This is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
If the supported address book app on your computer is not used and has no contacts available, before the first sync for this data enter one contact in the supported address book app on your computer. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select.

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