iCloud contact labels changed with latest iOS 16 upgrade

Ooh... This is the most confident post I've seen in many months on this topic.

and it does make sense, bcz people keep saying outlook, Gmail, MacBook, etc.... but for me, I have nothing but iPhone and sync with Gmail only.

also, it looks like apple isn't acknowledging this important problem, should we take it to Twitter?

It's annoying that Apple won't acknowledge. Also, this doesn't answer WHY the CUSTOM LABLES overwrite certain "standard" Apple labels. I don't use Twitter; however, I think you should take it to the people...

Take it to Twitter. I called in three weeks ago and the support geek at Appletold me that they knew it was a problem. However, they didn’t consider it a grave one. You’re actually losing your data on iCloud. It sure seems pretty grave to me…

Good luck to all now that the labels problem has been referred to the engineers.

I have an ongoing fault in the reminders app which was referred to the engineers 6+ months ago. Still waiting for advice!

We probably need to start realizing Apple products are really not for serious business applications. They do a great job for casual use, with lots of bling. They can obviously not be trusted with critical data.

I just realized I have also been losing EMail addresses. And I'm not talking about just the custom labels. The entire address is gone, for some contacts.

As much as I love the hardware, and have standardized our household with Apple products, I will have to consider switching to an alternative at next opportunity.

Has anyone found a fix for this. Been going for months now. Have not found a fix. Does not matter if I make the change in contacts in the cloud or on my phone. They keep resetting back to phone, email etc.

What the BLOODY HE🏒🏒!!

Now all my contacts with multiple numbers and addresses all say [home].

Every address and phone number is labeled HOME, when there are so many other labels, and possible custom labels. No matter how much I try to label them again like my tens of thousands of contacts were labeled, they revert to HOME.

I am so annoyed and angry how many months this has gone unresolved, with this over priced iphone 13 pro max throwing more pebbles in the windshield that could possibly allow me a pleasant end user experience.

Android works better, gets more frequent fixes, and better customer appreciation.

Since I in fact subscribe to extra iCloud storage, how do I know if my contacts are backing up there? You know I almost didn’t subscribe to it.

I owned 30+ USB 2Tb - 14Tb - 16 Tb external hard drives for storing documents, music, and movies. I figured why pay for slow wifi web storage when I had my own faster storage set up, but honestly Apple makes accessing your own data on their products so difficult, my notions I would upgrade my Windows desktops to Macs went out the Window, they would insist I get all my storage remotely.

During an illegally sought and executed eviction I lost everything I own, the only thing I recovered was my cat. Data I had control over stolen was inaccessible to me. They got bank statements and account numbers I had to close and transfer, someone attempted to access them. I didn’t encode the data because I feared I would forget all the passwords.

Anyway, I am grateful I didn’t lose what very little is in my icloud, the thieves didn’t take that.

I will not consider buying another apple product. My experience with the iPhone SE 2020 and problems reported in this forum convinced me that apple is not behind its customers. 99% of its efforts are shareholder satisfaction: to **** with the customers

Since I had removed my iCloud account from Microsoft outlook on my iPhone, all is fixed. So the problem is outlook.

Same here.

I have the exact same problem and it is very frustrating! I hope iOS 16.1 will fix this problem.

Same with 16.0.3 This is an incredible screw up & very frustrating. 🤞🏼16.1 will repair.

I have the same problem. Every days, contact label are generics on some of my contacts and are différents from iCloud and iPhone.

i have a level 2 support ticket right now and no solution.

Unfortunately, 16.1 did not fix it. My labels all reverted again when I upgrading to 16.1.