iCloud Not synching contacts and calendars

Same problem, ended up with duplicate entries, after several restore's of my iphone, i managed to log in to icloud.com log in and delete all icloud calendar before re-syncing from my PC to iphone, but I know have to enter event in both as it won't sync unless I plug into PC and sync as used to through itunes.

Contacts seem to be fine no duplications, haven't checked if they've updated though (iphone to PC).

Have googled answer and found talk of an "add-in" for Outlook, but haven't been able to find this or enable it, anyone any ideas? Hopefully early days of IOS 5 and icloud, and Apple will sort it out quickly.

Iphone 4S

PC Windows 7

Outlook 2007

I am having the same issues. [Pretty clear iCloud is a very beta release.]

On my Mac (Lion 10.7.2), I select System Preferences->iCloud, and then uncheck Contacts, then recheck it. It appears to sync to the cloud (thumnper spinning). But on my iPhone, Contacts do *not* get updated. Yes, I have enabled Contact sync on the iPhone 4S. What else can I do?

Looks like the missing step is: Turn off Contacts in iCloud on the iPhone (and let it delete Contacts). Stop the Contacts App. Re-enter iCloud, and re-enable sync for Contacts. Then restart Contacts. Then it will sync.

Wouldm't it be great is Siri could help people figure this out?

I can confirm that ricsteinberger's solution is the one that works. This is also confirmed here.

I realised that from iPad to iCloud to Mac it worked fine, same if I created from iCloud it would push to both my iPad and Mac, my problem was when I created an event on Mac, it wouldn't push to either.

It only started syncing after I edited the type of event from a "Work, Personal... - In my Mac" to "Work, Personal - iCloud" (Do that by using the "Get Info" option from right clicking an event, and then clicking on that colored square besides the "calendar"). Seems to me it lets you choose what you wanna push to iCloud and what you don't, given that it requires some of the 5GB free iCloud service in order to push to the cloud and then to your devices.

I have tried all of the checking / unchecking etc. I finally got it to work by going into a random contact on my iphone, deleting one digit in a phone number. Re entering the number, then everything sync'd. Not sure why but it worked

I agree. Ricsteinberger's solution worked for me too. Another note is to simply make sure your phone is in wireless mode, and not 3G. It will not update if on 3G.

ANother point: If you modify Contacts on your Mac, and you have the Contacts App open on your iPhone, the Contacts App may not immediately sync. What you can do to "tickle" a sync is tap on the Groups button, upper left, then when you're back in the Groups area, tap on the group you just left. Contacts seems to need a minor change to get it to sync.

Adding the icloud account in ical worked. Thanks for the info, I'be been having trouble with several of these little items. I love Apple and all the tricks that the new stuff can do, but "It just works" seems a little unhelpful if you don't tell folks how to make it "just work".

I agree with you duzie

Unfortunatelly, in the beginning icloud was working for contacts (all others fine) now for quite sometime is not working anymore. I tried everything above and nothing is working. My system preferences - icloud - contacts freezes when setting off and the only way is to reboot the MBP and then comes back to system preferences with contacts on. A nightmare. Looks like Apple is dropping the ball in every single area. I'm one of the people who had problems with HD - smart errors and had to replace HD. I just hope a huge Class Action comes after Apple as no one from Apple comes to these forums to help us. I'm extremely upset. Let's hope something changes in the future. Best !

On your Mac, you may have to go to Preferences of Address Book, then on the Accounts tab check the box Enable this account for your iCloud account.

Thanks Celtdkey, but I had done that and is on. Not sure why. Besides the problem with synching I have the one of the computer slowing down tremendously. I believe I found the problem with slowind down, but still trying to resolve the synch issue as the path suggested I can't find. Checked this out as I think this is good to know https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3355782?start=30&tstart=0 Thanks again for taking the time to reply. Regards !!

Just to finish the speed is ok now due to link above, however after doing all unfortunatelly the contacts still not synchronizing. Hope they fix it in the future.

For future reference please check https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3430342?start=0&tstart=0 about sync contacts. at the end worked it out.

I have spent the last 6 hours attempting to resolve iphone synching issues between Sn Apple support and Microsoft Outlook. The problems involve duplicates, triplicates and so forth on my iphone and mac outlook (2011). A sn microsoft tech said Outlook does not currently synch with icloud. I confirmed this with an apple senior tech who, after checking it, said "yes" outlook will not synch through icloud currently. It appears to me this knowledge is not distributed through apple tech support. if you have synching on in outlook, in your systems prefs, and on your iphone you may experience problems. The solution is to connect your iphone to your mac and synch the old way.