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Hi,
I have a problem with the contacts on my iPhone. The only account that i sync my contacts with is my iCloud account. However when I create a new contact it is saved locally in the suggested contacts group. See attachment.
the name of this group is also
weird because my phones language is Dutch
Where is this local contact source coming from, and more importantly; how can I delete this?
thanks in advance!
iPhone X
Hi LouterWouter,
Thanks for your post! We understand that your contacts will sync to your iPhone by default, and not your iCloud account. Try looking in Settings > Contacts > Default Account and see if iCloud is selected.
Manage and delete contacts on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Let us know what you find out!
Take care!
Hi LouterWouter,
Thanks for the response. We see the issue is persisting. If you haven't yet, we suggest reaching out to Apple Support to continue troubleshooting the issue.
Best regards.
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for replying.
It's not that my contacts are syncing locally. It's when I create a new contact manually, it is saved locally and not in the iCloud account.
Tthe "Default Account" option bacomes visible if you have multiple cloud based sources for contacts. For example an Outlook.com account and a Gmail account. As I am syncing my contacts with iCloud only this option is not visible for me. I have tried adding a second account and then it becomes visible. Sadly this is not the solution to this problem. I would like to delete the "local iphone" contact source and use iCloud only.
I have checked my wife's iPhone and she does not have this local iPhone source for her contacts.
Any other thoughts? ;-)
Have a nice day!
Hi Brenden,
I did that allready, but they could not figure it out (by phone). That's why I've tried to find the solution here.
Thanks
Local iPhone contacts
