Want to delete Exchange account but keep contacts

I had an Exchange account setup on my iphone but I want to delete it now. Problem is, I have all my contacts in that Exchange account. When I try removing the account, it warns me that all contacts will be deleted. How do I save my contacts so they arent deleted?

If you have your contact information available with a supported application on computer for syncing contact information with your iPhone via the iTunes sync process such as with Outlook 2003 or 2007, you can transfer the contact information to your iPhone that way.
When you enable over the air syncing for contact information with an Exchange account or with a MobileMe account, existing contact information on your iPhone is erases and replaced with the contact information available on the server. When deleting such an account on your iPhone, all contact information that was transferred to your iPhone via the over the air sync process is also deleted.

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Accidentally deleted exchange account and lost contacts....please help

Hello all,
I have a unique problem and I'm worried that it may not be fixable but hopefully it is. Here is the long detailed explanation.
I was trying to start setup for an outlook account to sync my business emails to my phone (which I never got around to doing) I noticed that under mail/contacts etc. that there was an exchange account.....with it being early in the AM and still in bed I accidentally deleted it. I noticed immedietly after that my texts were coming in with numbers rather than contact names. I don't usually use the start mail (blue with white envelope) I had it archived away.....because I have the gmail app which was much more user friendly. Whoever set up the exchange account must have been at the verizon store when i bought the phone possibly. I did not do this myself. Anyways I have a few more problems that makes this issue worse....for some time now my iCloud has been saying it does not have the appropriate amount of storage......(And I assume is not backing up my contacts) I've never really had to use iCloud before so I think this may not help either. I looked on gmail and only certain contacts....older ones were on there. I went to a verizon store and he helped me re-add my exchange account which im assuming was through my gmail email (Only email I really use) and certain contacts seemed to pop up. After leaving the store I realized that a lot of the newer contacts I've added were still missing......I'm not sure what else I can do to recover these contacts if anything but I am now up for suggestion. This is basically where I'm at right now.....not totally missing everything but missing a good deal. Also would like to get my cloud up and running again so this doesn't happen again. I haven't hooked to iTunes yet but I never really did that regularly so that might not help either. Like I said I am up for any suggestion......maybe a way to look up my exchange account if by chance it wasn't under my gmail email account......Thanks in advance!
Sam

You might have luck in the iPhone community. I’ll ask the hosts to move your post there.
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Why can't I delete iCloud account but keep my photos

I have a Macbook Air, and two iPads. All are running Mavericks or above. When I set up this OS, I was asked a bunch of questions about the iCloud. I do my own backups. I don't really need the iCloud, but naively I thought what is the harm.
I managed to turn off most of what I didn't want for the Macbook Air, so I think I'm good there.
But it's the iPads I am worried about. I get asked to enter my iCloud password at random intervals. It's intrusive and annoying. I don't need an iCloud, so I thought I'd turn the feature off.
But to turn it off it says it's going to delete my photos FROM MY DEVICE. Not from the iCloud, but from the Device!
My question is why does Apple think it is OK to remove MY files from MY device that I own and save them to an area that I will no longer have access to?
I don't think that Apple is stealing my photos for nefarious purposes. I don't think Apple cares about my photos. So I don't understand why they would take them away from me.
I tried to login to the iCloud and see what photos they have. And you know what? I can't. If I try it in Safari on the iPad, I get Set up iCloud ( already done), install find my iPhone, and Find my Friends. If I login from my Macbook, I have no photos showing, which I think it because I never enabled photo backups on that device. I can't see the ones from my iPad, which are on the SAME ACCOUNT. Now I'm puzzled by the point of this iCloud feature. I would have thought it was a way to access my stuff from anywhere. I guess not? Then what IS the point?
Like I said I have a backup of the stuff on the iPad, so that's not the problem. The problem is why is Apple making me jump through hoops to restore my own files that I did not delete? It's the exact opposite of what I want to happen. I want to delete photos from the cloud and not from the device.

Hey there mlz89,
It sounds like you want to remove an account you have set up to use Messages. You should be able to do this with the Internet Accounts section of the computers system preferences, or modify an accounts settings here:
List of account features or list of account types (on the right)
If an account is highlighted on the left, its features and settings are listed on the right. Select the features you want to use and change settings as you like.
If no account is highlighted on the left, you can add one by clicking a provider such as iCloud on the right.
Delete
To remove the highlighted account and turn off all its features, click Delete (–).
If you remove an account while your Mac is set up for iCloud Keychain, the account is also removed from your other Mac computers set up for iCloud Keychain.
OS X Mavericks: Internet Accounts preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14286
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the very best,
Sterling

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I have a work email account setup on my iPad. I have changed jobs and would like to delete the old work account. Is it possible to remove the old email account, but preserve the contacts and calendar information?
Thanks

Same happening here. Contacts and calendars sync between 2 Macs OK using iCloud. iCloud syncing with iOS devices worked well until Monday afternoon 12/19.
Since then (3 days) mail, contacts and calendars in my iCloud account do not sync to iPhone 4 and iPad. Photo Stream OK.
All software is up to date. Wiped iPhone and started fresh. Still syncing is broken.
OmniFocus, Evernote, Gmail, Dropbox sync OK. Safari works too.
Attempts to delete iCloud from iPhone stall at spinning pinwheel.
Likewise attempts to disable calendar and contacts services stall.
Seems this problem relates to iCloud security on iOS gadgets.
Still out if sync.

Mavericks can't sync contacts need to sync multiple family iPhones to same account but keep contacts in separate groups

Both my wife and son have iPhones and prior to mavericks I was able to sync contacts through iTunes and select which group of contacts synced with the phone so for instance my son would only see his contacts and my wife her own,but the imac would hold the master back up
I cannot see anyway to do this now as the only way to sync contacts appears to be through icloud.i can't find any support documents to explain what happens if I turn icloud sync on as all it says on iphone is merge contacts which presumably would then put all contacts on each phone
Does anyone know how I could achieve the desired goal?

1 person = 1 account
iCloud is for individual use, so if 5 people share the same account they will get all of the contacts (and calendar events) in the account. Kinda messy.
Give each person their own account in iCloud and their own user account on the Mac.
iTunes can still be shared with a seperate ID for all to use.
Syncing via iTunes has nothing to do with iCloud, and is no longer possible with Mavericks.

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I can no longer delete individual texts from a text "conversation." I also have not figured out how to forward texts, which I was able to do in the prior version.
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Anyone know if there is a way to forward messages?

When you have the conversation open, if you tap & hold on a message bubble, you should get a new menu pop-up. It should have 2 options "Copy" and "More..." If you select the "More..." option it will then let you select one or more message bubbles and delete the selected ones by hitting the trach can icon in the lower left corner. As for forwarding, you probably just select the "Copy" option, then paste the contents into a new message...

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Is there any way to remove my Mail for Exchange account, but keep the contacts?
Everytime I remove the mail for exchange account, the contacts get deleted, but I want them to stay on the phone.
If not, I have VCards of the contacts, can I import those? I can't seem to be able to do this at all.

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How do I delete an email account, but keep the email?

I have an email account from ISP that I no longer use. I want to delete the account, but I don't want to lose the email. How do I delete the account and save all of the email?
Can I create a folder and move all of the email from the account I want to delete to the folder? From what I've read so far the email would still be deleted from that folder.
This seems like it would be a common occurrence with a lot of people, so I'm surprised that there is not an solution from Apple. Apple indicates that if an email account is deleted you will lose all of the mail. There should be an option when you delete the account that asks "Do you what to keep all of the email from this account? Yes/No". If yes then the system automatically saves email to an archive folder or something similar.
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Create a new "On My Mac" mailbox and move the messages to it. Then delete the account.

I want to delete exchange email account from my iPhone 5s but when ever opening the setting-Mail,Contacts,Calenders but no option to delete the account, please help

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Do you have Settings/General/Restrictions/Accounts set to dont allow changes - i have an exchange email account on my 6+ and there was a button at the bottom to delete the account
i dont know that much about exchange ( i hate it) but im wondering if this might be some administrator setting on the account

I turned on my icloud account but suddenly some of my contacts disappeared ... I tried to turn off and delete icloud account but still some of my numbers are unreachable ... Help pls

I turned on my icloud account but suddenly some of my contacts disappeared ... I tried to turn off and delete icloud account but still some of my numbers are unreachable ... Help pls

Hi Prince,
OK, so you did turn on PhotoStream on your device. On iCloud.com there is no setting for PhotoStream - it is not needed. PhotoStream only get "turned on" on a device or a computer (in the computer settings - not on the website).
So, once it is turned on, you take a picture, and it may take a few minutes before you see it in the PhotoStream on your phone. If you take a couple of pics and they don't show up, say within a half an hour, then you might want to do a reset on your phone (press the Home and Power buttons at the same time, and hold them down until the silver Apple appears - you won't lose anything by doing this....) Once it comes back up, you could try a couple more pics, or check the PhotoStream to see if the ones you took previously are there.
Not sure about the option at the bottom of the Photo App - I think it is a permanent item (like Places - I don't use Places for my photos, but it is there all the same.
I agree with you that it is a great backup for your photos - especially if you don't regularly sync to a computer. PhotoStream will keep up to 1000 of your photos, so it's good insurance against losing them. Just as a major user of the camera on my iPhone, I would recommend that you do back up to your computer as well. Videos are not saved in PhotoStream, so those would be lost if anything ever happened to your phone and you had not backed up to a computer....
But don't give up on PhotoStream either - it's not only great for backing up those last 1000 photos, it is also great for sharing between devices (say, if you have an iPad).
So, give it another try, and if you have any questions, post back!
Cheers,
GB

HT204053 We have apple computer and set up 1 apple id and for music on iPods. Now we have 3 apple phones and want to share the music but keep our contacts separate. what should we do.

We started with an apple computer and set up 1 apple id and for music on iPods. Now we have 3 apple phones and want to share the music but keep our contacts separate. what should we do? Right now we have the same apple id on the PC, ipodtouch, ipod, and 3 phones. They said make seperate clouds?

Hello there MizzouTrojan,
If I understand correctly you want all 6 devices to have access to a single calendar that each device gets notifications for and can edit. You can do that with an private iCloud shared calendar. First sign into www.icloud.com and use these steps from the following article to share a calendar:
iCloud: Share a calendar with others
Share a calendar privately
Click the Share button to the right of the calendar name in the sidebar, then select Private Calendar.
Note: You can also share the same calendar publicly. For instructions, see the next task, “Share a calendar publicly.”
Type the invitee’s email address in the Add Person field and press Return.
Click the pop-up menu with the invitee’s name and choose access privileges (View & Edit or View Only).
For each person you want to share the calendar with, repeat steps 2 and 3.
When you’ve invited everyone and set their privileges, click OK.
Invitation emails are sent from your iCloud email address to the participants you specified.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

HT5621 I recently changed my apple ID but the old on is still on my iCloud account. The old address is dimmed on iCloud on my iPad so I can't change it. How do I change to the new address? I don't want to delete the account as I don't want to lose the pi

I recently changed my apple ID but the old on is still on my iCloud account. The old address is dimmed on iCloud on my iPad so I can't change it. How do I change to the new address? I don't want to delete the account as I don't want to lose the pictures

To change it, you have delete the existing account. However you can avoid losing any pictures in the process. To avoid losing photo stream photos, save them to your camera roll (if not already there) before deleting the account. To do this, open your my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll. (Camera roll photos are not effected by deleting the account.)
Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the new ID. This deletes the account and your iCloud data from your device, but not from iCloud. Provided you are signing back into the same account, your iCloud data will reappear on your device when you sign back in.

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