HT204144: How to use AirDrop with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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Ken in AZ
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Q: Air Drop does not transmit Contact info located in the Notes Section of the Contact.  How does one transfer All Fields of a contact record?

Transferred a Contact from my iPhone 5S/ios7 to my iPad Air.  Successfully transferred the Contact including all ph numbers, email addresses, and street addresses.   But -- it did NOT transfer all the text in the "Notes" section of the original Contact.  Why?   Some of my Contacts also have a photo in the same Notes Section.  I don't want to sync the devices via the cloud because I just want selected Contacts.  Sharing via email does the same thing - no Notes.  Only way I've found is to Sync with Outlook Contacts on my Windows XP and Windows7 PCs.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.3, Same AppleID/User on both Devices

Posted on Nov 13, 2013 1:21 PM

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  • by Ken in AZ,

    Ken in AZ Ken in AZ Nov 13, 2013 3:40 PM in response to Ken in AZ
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    Nov 13, 2013 3:40 PM in response to Ken in AZ

    I want the notes transferred because I only share contacts between my own devices: 2 iPhones, 3 iPads, and 2 Windows PCs with Outlook 2010.  The PCs are the "masters" and syncing with my iPhones (Active Sync) works great and it does transfer all notes.      And using multiple Contacts Folders in Outlook also works fine when specific folders are selected. 

     

    The challenge is when you only want some Contacts to be shared among your own devices.   That is why using the cloud for this sharing is not good.   I.e., I have some 3500 contacts on my iPhone and my wife only needs some of those on her iPhone or our iPads.  

     

    Air Drop would be the most efficient if only there was an option to Include or Exclude the Notes field of the Contact being shared.   Emailing a contact also does not include notes. 

  • by Ken in AZ,

    Ken in AZ Ken in AZ Nov 14, 2013 3:13 PM in response to Ken in AZ
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    Nov 14, 2013 3:13 PM in response to Ken in AZ

    So far it appears Microsoft's Outlook program is the only contact manager capable of "Forwarding" a Contact record that is all inclusive of all the data in the Contact including the Notes data.

     

    While some may use the Notes field to store "secret or confidential" information...I've used it to store more mundane Notes that are not NOT confidential or sensitive in any way.  Moreover....only want to "Share" (Microsoft calls it "Forward") with my own multiple devices.  The "Notes" data might include a picture, another type of image, a map, a URL, etc.  I and the rest of the MS Windows user world began building Contacts in Outlook so long ago it is not practical to switch to iOS-based personal info management software unless it allows complete conversions or "Sharing" as Apple calls it.

     

    Microsoft figured this out years ago by allowing the user to choose whether to include Notes or not when "Forwarding" any individual Outlook Contact Record.  It sounds like we need Microsoft Outlook for iOS like we have MS Outlook for MAC.  With thousands of Contacts in MS Outlook 2010 I can't do without the Notes data in my files.  And it isn't practical to use a syncing function when I only need 10-20% of my overall contacts on some of my iOS devices.