Contact missing in contact listing

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Contact missing in contact listing

hi, i have recently switched to the iphone 3gs (formerly used the 3g) and have a problem with contacts created on the iphone (sw 3.1.2).

when i create a contact on the iphone (from the number field) it does not show up in my contact list (this was not the case on my 3g phone). when i search the phone with spotlight the contact is there (with the label contact) - but still not in my contact list. i have tried the same thing on another iphone (also 3gs) and it works perfectly fine (we both use the same mail server to sync - ms exchange).

is there any setting where i can define the default storage of new contacts? does anybody experience the same problem?

iphone, iPhone OS 3.1.2

Posted on Dec 15, 2009 3:23 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 17, 2009 5:33 PM in response to tom nox

i have this same issue. ANy contact i save through number input doesn't show up in my contacts list, but does show up in spotlight. i can also save them to favorites to bypass this problem, but id like to fix it. any help?

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Answer 2

Dec 24, 2009 12:27 PM in response to Roccoparis

I've been having the same issue. When I add a New contact from,let's say google or even recent calls, it doesn't show up in my contact list but it does show up in spotlight search. Any ideas??

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Dec 28, 2009 9:02 AM in response to MHmodesto

This issue just started for me too...would love an answer on this.

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Dec 28, 2009 11:22 AM in response to tom nox

Same issue here. At first I thought it was a sync issue, and wasted a ton of time fooling with that. Then I realized that using the "Create New Contact" option from a phone number did not add that contact to "Contacts" on the iPhone, therefore, it never syncs with Address Book or Mobile Me. The only work around appears to be to create the contact directly in "Contacts," then it shows up in "Contacts," and syncs to Address Book and Mobile Me.

To have a"Create New Contact" option that doesn't work is a pretty stupid bug.

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joose

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Jan 3, 2010 12:17 AM in response to Dan Macdougald Iii

same as the rest of you.
wondering why one has chimed in with a work around or a fix.

soon i hope...

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joose

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Jan 3, 2010 12:48 AM in response to joose

FYI

this worked for me, clearing the problem of phone created contact not in contacts list.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10837114#10837114

once i cleared about 1/4 of the dups, they all cleared. strange, but now creating contact in phone app will port the info to the contacts app

awesome

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Answer 7

Jan 22, 2010 1:00 PM in response to tom nox

I've been using Google Sync for my contacts and have been running into the same problem.

Upon poking around some more, I noticed that I have two Groups when I open up the Contacts app: my Google acct and "All from My Mac." Don't know how to merge the two, but here's I got my new contacts to save to Google:

1. Open Settings app
2. Go to Mail,Calendar,Contacts
3. Scroll down to the Contacts block and set Default account to my Google account.

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