iOS5 not syncing with yahoo contacts

Yes, I tried this too but it doesn't work

Hi All, I've the same issue (Yahoo! contacts not sync with my iOS 5.1 device), BUT my wife's account @ Yahoo! works perfectly! sync in both ways without problems. The difference is thet my account has the new Profile Active, while the other account has still the old interface (sorry if I cannopt explain very well this difference). All the new accounts have the new Yahoo Profile enabled, I've tried creating a new account from scratch and no sync at all.

Please trere is someone with a Yahoo! account and no new profile activated taht could confirm my idea?

best regards, Stex

I think I may have solved this one... Please let me know if it works for you... This is copied from my blog, I have pictures over there! http://www.brispace.com/

1. Create the Yahoo! account as normal and enable whatever you want to sync.
2. Open Safari (make sure you have cookies enabled)
3. Goto Yahoo.com (no need to give them your location)
4. Click Mail in the top right corner
5. Login with your account that is not syncing
6. Create a new email to someone on your list, delete it.
7. Scroll Down to your folders
8. If you have a “Notes” folder, delete it by clicking on the gear
9. If you do not, create one, then delete it
10. Check your Contacts! Viola!

I have no friggin clue why that works, and not sure what step actually makes it work, but hey, it works. Best of luck!

It's a magic but... IT JUST WORKS.

I've two Yahoo accounts and this workaround really works. Just a simple question: how you discovered this solution?

I have no idea, just alot of time!

@schoeps, I followed your instructions and was unsuccessful in adding/syncing my Yahoo! contacts to the iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1). Any other ideas folks? In addition, I've tried the following steps:

Deleted iCloud account

Deleted Yahoo! account

reset iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1)

Added Yahoo! Account with all sync services enabled (ie., mail, contacts, calendar, etc.)

Restarted iPhone

No contacts appear in the "contacts" app

Yahoo! default is not an option underContacts when I go to Mail, Contacts, Calendar, etc.

I'm stuck! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, at the moment my account sync in both ways (but is extremely slow). After the workaround written by @schoeps, I've also deleted all my folders, trying to "reset" my account. Please keep in mind that deleting the "Notes" folder affects all the messages you have in your device, if "Notes" are enabled. Sorry for my poor English, hope this will help.

Like Grasshopper575, I could not get my Yahoo Contacts to sync with iOS5.1 using the 'new' method without CardDAV. Calendar, Mail, etc. sync fine. I finally setup an account under 'Other' and went back to using CardDAV. 2 hours later, I have Contacts.

Like buddyski, I had no success with the "new method."

I just lost all of my contacts a couple of days ago for no apparent reason. I delete Yahoo account, then add it again--about 10 times. One time I got about 50 of my contacts (out of a few hundred). 9 out of ten times nothing showed up at all in contacts. What is going on with yahoo??? I heard somewhere in a post on another site that yahoo might be upgrading their servers? Does anyone have any other ideas/thoughts?

Using CardDav...does that really work effectively in truly syncing both directions? I had trouble in the past with that not syncing in some cases--seemed to intermittently work and took 20 or 30 minutes to sync, it seemed, even when manually trying to sync or waiting supposed 15 minutes for "fetch."

I had the same problem as all of you and solved it like that:

- Export all contacts as a yahoo csv file to my hard disk

- Delete all contacs in my yahoo account

- Delete all contacs in "Deleted contacts"

- Swich off syncing yahoo! contacts on iphone

- Import all contacts from my hard disk into the accout using the csv file

- Delete all lists and list suggestions which appear in the contact account window below "all contacts" and "shortcuts"

- Swich on syncing yahoo! contacts on iphone

- go to contact app and refresh contacts on top left

- be patient for a few minutes

having this done sync worked fine in both directions for about three months. about a week ago the phone started to go crazy:

when trying to create a new contact on my iphone by using a number of an incoming text message or call, the contact would stay in my iphone contact list for a few seconds. that the sync process with yahoo takes place, but yahoo doesn't seem to save the contact in it's account. so after a few seconds the new contact disappears from my iphone contact list (and has never appeared in yahoo).

a few days later, ALL my contacts were removed from my iphone contact list. they were still on may yahoo account. refreshing sync in the contact app and other things did not really work out (some contacts were synced, but not all of them). so i finally tried again the workaround described above and everything seems to work fine again. hope it lasts like that.

did you have similar problems during the last days? I guess that all these problems seem to have to do with an odd yahoo storage system which needs to be "cleaned up" from time to time.

my other settings:

- yahoo! mail pro

- european contacts with letters like ä ö ß

- iOS 5.1

- iphone 3gs

- "new method" (no carddav)

- all contacts are saved with first name and last name

- 300 + contacts; some with mail; some with up to 4 phone numbers; some mail, phone and other information

xtrew,

I too, have had contacts added on my iphone disappear after the iphone sync. I want to try your method here, but I have questions:

1. How do you switch off/on syncing yahoo! contacts on iphone? Is that under Settings?

2. What is the 'contact account window'? Contact app?

3. I am not using iTunes for syncing. Do I have to?

I am using Yahoo for mail (regular), contacts, calendar and iPhone 4 iOS 5.1.

thanks for any further input.

1. on your iphone go to settings -> mail, contacts, calendar -> accounts, yahoo -> switch off contacts and confirm to delete contacts from iphone

2. i use the "new" yahoo mail interface: log in to your yahoo mail account -> go to contacts (next to inbox button)

contacts app: that's where all your contacts are on your iphone

3. no, you don't have to. everything I described above did not involve using itunes.The iphone is not connected to my pc during this workaround. however, the iphone has access to wlan.

ps: I also deleted my icloud account from my iphone. as noted earlier in this thread, this might also help to solve the sync problem.

On 5/12/2012, I contacted Yahoo Customer Support regarding being unable to sync my yahoo contacts with iOS 5.1 on my iPhone 4S. They replied that this feature is not available at this time. Really? So confused. I've spent 2 days researching this, and I have yet to find a solution. This is beyond frustrating.

But... what happened to all the info (new people, and updated info) that had been apparently saved to iCloud contacts but not Yahoo? If I've got a dozen people on my phone contacts but not Yahoo (so, apparently, they're only in the iCloud list) then if I turn off iCloud contacts, won't all that info disappear from my phone (*and* not be available via Yahoo)?

Is there any more progress on this? I've updated to iOS6, hoping that this would fix things magically, but I guess not, if its a yahoo issue...

Thanks,

Rich