Edited contacts don’t save

every time I edit my contacts it just reverts to what was there I read that I need to disable cloud sync but does apple really expect us to do this every time we make an edit to a contact.

IPhone 8 iOS 12.4

Posted on Aug 16, 2019 10:14 AM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2019 11:12 AM

Did some research, the issue is linked contacts if u scroll to the bottom of a contact that won’t update I bet I’ll see it has more than one link u can edit from the linked contact or just delete one of the linked accounts. Not 100% but I’m thinking that these linked accounts r from having old inconsistencies in an account and so 2 separate contacts with differing info is linked. I find if u edit via the iphone linked at the bottom it will update and save I then delete the iCloud link. Not totally sure if it will sync with cloud properly but I haven’t noticed a problem.


Hope this helps as all the other reply’s to this kind of issue was to just post a link to a general : Get help using iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders


and is as usual not very helpful with a specific issue in general from so called experts

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Aug 16, 2019 11:12 AM in response to dannydonothing

Did some research, the issue is linked contacts if u scroll to the bottom of a contact that won’t update I bet I’ll see it has more than one link u can edit from the linked contact or just delete one of the linked accounts. Not 100% but I’m thinking that these linked accounts r from having old inconsistencies in an account and so 2 separate contacts with differing info is linked. I find if u edit via the iphone linked at the bottom it will update and save I then delete the iCloud link. Not totally sure if it will sync with cloud properly but I haven’t noticed a problem.


Hope this helps as all the other reply’s to this kind of issue was to just post a link to a general : Get help using iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders


and is as usual not very helpful with a specific issue in general from so called experts

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Edited contacts don’t save

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