Contact Names & SMS missing after iOS5 upgrade?

I have exactly the same issue for me, my wife, and ALL my friends who having iPhones. I tries restoring ios 5 many time, I've gone through all the options and settings but with no use. As I'm travelling abroard frequently as well, It is a must for me to have all my contacts with their related international codes, if I amend all my contacts to delete their international codes, I'll face problems when I travel abroad upon receing calls from those contacts.

I have also many other issues that either me or my friends have faced after the upgrade to ios 5, but this one is the most importnat one to me currently.

Any help in that regard? or shall we wait for the next update of ios 5?

It seems it is a global issue, not for specific country or specific networks, in my case, some contacts within one network are not shown and others from the same mobile network are shown. It seems it is a software fault on the global level, which is very disppointing for Apple Inc. to have such software fault along with many other issues and faults that I'm facing (either personally or with my my friends).

Not expected at all from you APPLE.

Same problem here after upgrading to iOS 5 (Wataniya, Kuwait here). Seems to be a widespread problem with the iOS 5 upgrade. Please submit a bug report here so that hopefully Apple will release a quick patch for this:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Thanks a lot for the help. I already did that yesterday. I have also other problems regarding the personal hotspot and my apps in the cloud at the App store which I have reported to Apple as well on the above link.

But I'd like to tell you that the problem in Kuwait is not for Wataniya numbers only, it is for the numbers of all the three carriers (Zain, Wataniya & Viva), and as I followed up on the internet, it seems to be a global issue in many countries.

Hope that Apple will listen and release the required update very soon.

I think i had the same issue as you guys.

I just fixed mine - but i'm not sure if its will be permament.

Anyways i just did a device reset or whatever it is called (sleep + home button until the apple logo appears.)

Thats what i did and it worked for me 🙂

I am also having a problem since upgrading to iOS 5. I am in Oman right now (on assignment) and all my contacts are prefixed with +968 (Oman country code). When I receive a local call, iPhone does not match any of my contacts and just displays the number as it does not contain the country code. Removing the country code in my contact list though creates problem on my Messages as SMS is received with country codes and will not match my contacts if they are saved without the country code.

I hate that I have to add the same number twice. One without country code and one with country code. Has anyone able to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

Hy Guys, I'm also facing this. but nowI tried this way and now it is fixed.

Here it Goes:

I uploaded to lulzimg, coz here it resizes the image:

http://i27.lulzimg.com/d9e9993f04.jpg

After doing the Following, Connect your iDevice to wifi and go to contacts from mobile and refresh it by tapping the Refresh symbol on left top corner of the Contacts.

Done. It Must Work.!!!

Thank you for reading it.

Enjoy!!

iMaF

Thanks for your post, but unfortuntely it didn't work for me.

I still think that solving this problem will be through an update for ios 5 from Apple, which I hope not to be delayed.

I'm also having this issue! - Apple needs to FIX THIS. This is a HUGE bug(!)

I'm from Kuwait and have the same problem. Your solution seems helpful, but can't do it as iPhone lists Kuwait in Arabic format only, while all my contacts and settings are in English. Therefore, can't select Kuwait format.

Apple needs to work on these issues. Other than fixing the missing contact names after the upgrade, please add English language option to other non-English countries. A US citizen for example living in Kuwait can't select Kuwait Arabic format for sure, but would want to specify Kuwait as the country of residence and so on.

did it for u iMaF? i tried it but no lock, its a factory unlocked i4 i think this problem is related both software and carrier because when i had my i3 it didnt display caller ID in Sri Lanka with numbers stored with country code (+94) but worked fine in Male' (+960) so i think it has a little to do with both and funny part is that caller ID is displayed for SMS's hope apple finds a fix soooooooooooon

Unfortunately I have the same problem as well. I live I'm Papua new guinea I have two iPhone 4 same problem on Both. I think this may have happened before when they upgrade to ios3. I have seen some

where they say you might try a Carrier firmware update..

I'm from Nepal and I have been facing this stupid problem since I upgraded(?) to ios 5. APPLE do something!! It's a torture to save the same number twice with & without the country codes!!

I have rang applele care, unfortunately they have been no help. What is Apple doing about it... Any ideas.