My iPad contacts disappeared after adding a contact
My IPad 2 contacts just disappeared after adding a contact. What will I do aside from syncing? Are there any other solutions?
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
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My IPad 2 contacts just disappeared after adding a contact. What will I do aside from syncing? Are there any other solutions?
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
First thing. Did you hit DONE after you entered the contact? if you simple hit back or the home button, the info may not have saved. I have done this many times and its very frustrating. The same thing happens with calendar.
Second, do you use mobileme? it could be that mobileme is having a conflict and not merging contacts properly.
lastly, when in doubt, restart. This is always my first course of action with any computer problem and very often solves the issue.
Did everything you said:
1 Hit "done" and the address book shut down
2 when I reopened the address book, there wer eno more contacts
3 rebooted twice after that to. No avail.
very strange. contacts isn't supposed to close after hitting done.
i just added a fake contact to my ipad 2, and it closed out as well, but the info was there upon re-opening.
a second attempt at adding a contact worked properly for me.
are you sure you haven't accidentally switched or added multiple groups? i did that on my iphone when i first got it and panicked. is the search bar cleared? it will eliminate results that don't match.
The search bar is cleared. Even added contacts to see if there was just a glitch but all the other contact snare gone.
Same thing has just happened to me....edited a contact on iPad2, hit done, and 7,000 contacts disappeared. Calendar and Mail also using Mobile!e, and they seem OK. But contacts gone. Very very frustrating.
Same thing just happened to me. Was adding some contacts, and then poof. If anyone knows a solution short of re-syncing, I would love to know it. I won't be home for a few days. 😟
Same issue here except it was when I was deleting a contact. I hit done and the app closed and when I reopened it there were no contacts.
Me too. Same thing. Adding a contact.
Me too. This has been reported here many times in other threads here and no response. Those that do reply with advice seem not to grasp that by just adding one contact on the iPad can result in ALL pre existing contacts vapourising there and then. Not everytime. But it happens.
Nothing to do with MobileMe.
Yes in many cases resyncing with iTubnes will restore but it should not happen in the first place.
I no longer add or delete contacts on the iPad2 itself.
No one has officially acknowledged this happens.
this just happened to me. BS. Apple should acknowledge this, but they are too busy with iOS5 to chase bugs in iOS4.
I also just added a single contact to my Ipad2. When I hit done I believe my screen blinked, and now I have no contacts - period. I restarted iPad - no help! Then I did a hard restart - no help. I then added a new test contact which was successful. But I have still lost all my contacts. I can possible resync, but will apparently lose all contacts since last resync.
same happened here. Synced, and then was manually entering contacts from blackberry to ipad2 on the ipad, all contacts disappeared. I'd been deleting them from my blackberry as I entered them so now they're GONE! What the heck this is awful.
Upon purchase of my iPad 2 I began saving contacts to my IPad Contacts application that is already set up upon purchase of iPad 2. I then learnt about synching ( push ) my Gmail contacts to the Ipad 2 contacts 'exchange'. I did this happily and was very pleased with the results however when synching the first time I chose not to delete my iPad 2 contacts I had began saving upon purchase. This meant upon opening 'contacts' I had three choices 'iPad contacts', 'Exchange contacts' or 'All contacts'. There is no way to save ipad contacts directly to the 'Exchange contacts' it has to be saved into a file or vcard and then imported in using e-mail or a PC.
A few days in to using push/exchange I also added calendar and notes to the push/exchange as I was happy with the contacts and e-mail. I did notice some glitches since doing using push/exchange although I think it began when initially I began pushing contacts/mail there may be a slight chance that it began when I turned on calendar and notes facility to the push/exchange. The glitches that began meant sudden blinking during or after saving in calendar, contacts and notes. Sometimes this would mean the item added was there but also sometimes it would mean that it was not. Also double entries began arriving on both m iPad and in my Gmail Contacts online. These were a mix of contacts that I had and had not not created or edited since acquiring my iPad 2 so the was no pattern or obvious reason. They were all also a mix of contacts from different groups saved in my Gmail contacts.
Today suddenly whilst adding a contact the contacts blinked shut again. I re-opened to see what had happened wondering if my contact had been saved or not however not only did what I add not get saved but all approx 500 contacts from both my iPad contacts and my Exchange Contacts vanished from my iPad 2. I opened and closed the contacts to see if they would return but there was nothing. I also hibernated and then later shut down and restarted the iPad many times to no avail. I checked my Gmail Contacts account and thankfully all my contacts were still there. However, it was still extremely frustrating to have everything vanish from my iPad and then not just come back from there especially as he e-mails and calendar seemed to be still working fine with Exhange/push. Also, why had the contacts saved to the IPad contacts directly vanished also ?!! For a £800 gadget not including accessories it really is unacceptable !!!
Finally what worked for me was going to 'Settings', then going to 'mail,contacts,calendars' and then selecting the 'exchange' account and then switching 'contacts' to 'off', then I selected 'delete' iPad contacts i.e delete the contacts saved in the iPad contacts group however with nothing there to lose this time and having a feeling that perhaps that may have contributed to the issues/glitches and this contacts vanishing I clicked on the 'delete'. I really do have a feeling that perhaps the issues may have been due to having two sets of contacts even though there were only a few there in the iPad before they vanished along with the Exchange contacts. I clicked 'done' and then I didn't hibernate the iPad 2 instead I shut it completely down.
Upon restarting my iPad 2 I went to see if the contacts had returned but unfortunately once again they had not. I returned to 'settings', then 'mail,contacts,calendars' and then selected 'exchange' from accounts and switched 'contacts' back on i.e enabled this once again and clicked done. I then once again switched off ( shut down ) my iPad 2 and waited a while. Upon restarting I again went back to contacts and found some of my contacts finally arrive but not all. My 'push/'fetch' for exchange is set to every 15 minutes and every push/fetch showed me more and more contacts until finally I had all but one which has still not showed up ! However, I am once again happy and this time I only have one contacts group I.e for exchange and no separate iPad contacts to confuse me or iPad. I don't know if this will mean all will be okay now as I do feel like perhaps I cannot now trust iPad contacts and maybe need to print out everything and keep this on me also just in case. I'll keep you posted !
Apologies however during that essay I forgot to mention that I also went to settings and switched off the location services.
The same problem just happened to me. I don't know if this helps but I have all my contacts available on my iPhone and to avoid syncing I used the application Bump to move all me contacts from the iPhone to e iPad. So for me it will be easy to transfer them but this would've been a much bigger issue if I did t have that as a back up.
My iPad contacts disappeared after adding a contact