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Q: Can't edit Contacts any Help? (iPhone

With iOS 5 can't edit contacts !

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 9:03 PM

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  • by Jrramos0,

    Jrramos0 Jrramos0 Oct 27, 2011 12:00 PM in response to christyyh
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    Oct 27, 2011 12:00 PM in response to christyyh

    THIS DID IT !!

  • by gerradfrommundy,

    gerradfrommundy gerradfrommundy Oct 27, 2011 12:49 PM in response to christyyh
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    Oct 27, 2011 12:49 PM in response to christyyh

    Yay it worked!!!

  • by Mikey Moz,

    Mikey Moz Mikey Moz Oct 28, 2011 1:24 AM in response to gerradfrommundy
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    Oct 28, 2011 1:24 AM in response to gerradfrommundy

    Useful article about managing apple ids which should avoid duplicates in contacts list.

     

    http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-icloud-tips-sharing-an-apple-id-with-you r-family/

  • by tomfromwindermere,

    tomfromwindermere tomfromwindermere Nov 6, 2011 10:46 AM in response to Comalies25
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    Nov 6, 2011 10:46 AM in response to Comalies25

    This happened on my father-in-law's iPhone. I haven't had a chance to try the suggestions yet but I wanted to mention that although the option to edit or add a contact was missing from the "Contacts" icon/app, it was available when I went to "Phone" and then to Contacts from within the "Phone" icon.  Which I thought was strange.

  • by Verosoto,

    Verosoto Verosoto Nov 7, 2011 7:52 PM in response to greenman83
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    Nov 7, 2011 7:52 PM in response to greenman83

    i figured it out!!! after waiting almost an at the Apple store (even after making an appt) the guy tells me to just restore my entire phone....not knowing how long it would take to restore everything back ( a couple of hours) and that did nothing for me!!! I went into Settings> mail, contacts, calendars> accounts> ICloud....from there I deleted ICloud as one of my accounts because I dont use it since I dont have an Apple computer it does nothing for me. Well after doing that I went back to my contacts and the Edit tab finally came back!!! Good to know these Genius Bar people wasted around 3 hours of my time!!

  • by chevytj,

    chevytj chevytj Nov 9, 2011 6:10 PM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 9, 2011 6:10 PM in response to christyyh

    This worked!  Thank you!

  • by mwitrog,

    mwitrog mwitrog Nov 13, 2011 8:51 AM in response to Verosoto
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    Nov 13, 2011 8:51 AM in response to Verosoto

    Verosoto, thank you! That did it!

  • by Leadfoot12000,

    Leadfoot12000 Leadfoot12000 Nov 17, 2011 9:16 PM in response to mwitrog
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    Nov 17, 2011 9:16 PM in response to mwitrog

    Ok for all of u who are still stuck and nothing is working I think I have finally solved the base issue.  For me it was an issue with my mail account and iCloud. I could add contacts and edit them but as soon as I went back to the main list any changes I made would disappear. I had turned iCloud on and off, deleted existing iCloud backups, turned contacts in and off in iCloud a zillion dam times and could not get rid off the problem. I was ready to throw the phone out the window an restore it but kept on playing and I solved it.

     

    If you have multiple email accounts go into each one and turn contacts off.

    As soon as I turned them off I could edit add delete etc...  The one that was causing my problem was my yahoo.com account. After u can edit again u can turn them back on.

     

    Hope this helps!!!!

  • by ranchoave,

    ranchoave ranchoave Nov 18, 2011 7:54 AM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 18, 2011 7:54 AM in response to christyyh

    THANK YOU!  This worked perfect!

  • by tory_789,

    tory_789 tory_789 Nov 19, 2011 8:02 AM in response to Comalies25
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    Nov 19, 2011 8:02 AM in response to Comalies25

    I have the same problem...updated it a few weeks ago and now its starting to do my head in that I can't add/edit my contacts. I've tried doing what you suggested but every time I try and turn contacts on in icloud, the merge with pc comes up and when I click on it it just disappears back to the homescreen. I can't get into mail, calendars and contacts in settings either and I've restored it, re-set it etc. Anyone know what I can do?

  • by Jewls1,

    Jewls1 Jewls1 Nov 19, 2011 3:51 PM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 19, 2011 3:51 PM in response to christyyh


    That worked for me also. Thank you

  • by sabrina007,

    sabrina007 sabrina007 Nov 20, 2011 6:42 PM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 20, 2011 6:42 PM in response to christyyh

    Worked for me thkss!!!!

  • by EpicQ-Hunt3R,

    EpicQ-Hunt3R EpicQ-Hunt3R Nov 22, 2011 1:15 PM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 22, 2011 1:15 PM in response to christyyh

    Dude it solution made everyone's day but me:p. you said when u turn it on don't worry about the "Merge" thin ...     Well here what I've done :                                                                                                                                            Home screen>setting>iCloud>celendar and mail are successfully on , but here comes the problem the contacts...I can't turn'em on each time I try to turn it on they ask me to merge and with a message that says:"the contact you previously synced with your pc will be merged with iCloud" and ofcourse I clicked on merge but then it crashed before the merge even started so basically the setting were not saved as contact -ON. And it crashes too when I try to acces Mail,contacts,celendar at setting...         Please help??                Sorry if I wrote so much incorrect things I'm writing this on my iPhone :)

  • by jeannefromsouth glens falls,

    jeannefromsouth glens falls jeannefromsouth glens falls Nov 23, 2011 5:27 AM in response to christyyh
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    Nov 23, 2011 5:27 AM in response to christyyh

    Thank you for posting info on contacts and how to get edit feature back.  It worked on my phone thanks again.

  • by Geenny,

    Geenny Geenny Dec 27, 2011 9:48 PM in response to christyyh
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    Dec 27, 2011 9:48 PM in response to christyyh

    Thanks !!

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