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iCloud won't sync to my iPhone

Hi! I've migrated to iCloud and all my devices except my iPhone synced my contacts. I can see my contacts correctly on iCloud.com, on my 3 other Macs' address books. But none of my contacts shown on the iPhone contacts. I've enabled iCloud contacts sync on my iPhone, chosen delete all off the phone now it doesn't populate my contacts from iCloud. I've tried re-disabling and re-enabling again and again. It says activating contacts but its been two days and nothing happening. Is there any way?

iPhone 3GS

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 4:33 AM

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Oct 15, 2011 5:55 AM in response to megavolkan

Ok, i may have found a temporary solution. This may (virtually, not really) tie all multiple iCloud accounts together to merge all data on macs and cloud.


In my case i have two Apple IDs, one old (to purchase apps and music) and one new (mobile me), both registered valid to iCloud. I made them both have same contact, calendar and vice versa data manually. Then wiped my iPhone clean, first synced with my old Apple ID. All contact data filled in. then erased account from iCloud settings on the iPhone, chosen to leave all data on the phone intact, not to erase them. Then set up my mobile me account and chosen to merge all data on the iPhone with .me accont. It doesn't caused any problems like multiple contacts or anything.


Then to test this when all my contact apps on all devices were open (iphone, icloud and apple address book on the mac) i added edited some info on iCloud.com contacts. They all immediately synced to all devices 🙂. Now it seems working ok. This is my temporary unofficial solution. I hope it works for all of you.


PS: Because i DO NOT trust the process, in the beginning i backed up my mac address book to a file to use in any case of emergency.

Oct 15, 2011 6:37 AM in response to megavolkan

Same problem here. iCloud syncs fine between my PC and Mac, but any time I try to access it through my iPhone or iPad it hangs and nothing syncs. Not contacts or calendars. And when I try to turn on or off the Contacts, Calendar, Reminder or Bookmarks in the iOS Settings it hangs, saying "Turning Off Contacts" with a little progress circle going. I even let it go all night to see if that would fix the problem, and I tried setting the iPhone. Neither worked.

Oct 15, 2011 6:46 AM in response to megavolkan

You're not alone, I'm in the same boat. Syncing seems to be working between my Windows desktop and my Macbook Pro, but nothing has made down to iPhone yet... None of my contacts, calendars, bookmarks and reminders have synced to my iPhone.


So far I have been able to find a solution, I did a clean restore of my phone at Apple's suggestion, but no joy, so far their only other suggestion has been be patient. (sigh)

Oct 15, 2011 12:06 PM in response to megavolkan

It's definitely a problem with the iCloud program within iOS. I actually set my phone to Airplane Mode, restarted and the problem still persists. By that I mean contacts and calendars still lock when trying to access. I guess I'm just going to go back and use Google Contacts and Calendars until Apple can fix this problem. I don't have any more time to waste trying to find a workaround.

Oct 15, 2011 12:37 PM in response to marcosdg

I was actually able to solve my particular issue by, from iTunes, with Wifi Sync enabled, turning off iCloud backup, turning on iTunes backup, Perform a Wireless Sync to get the changes pushed to the the iPhone, then re-enable iCloud backups. As soon as I re-enabled iCloud backups, my contacts and calendars got pushed to my phone and everything seems to be in sync now.


You may get similar results by turning off iCloud backups from the iPhone itself, but maybe not.


I'm not sure if this fix for me will have any impact on the issues other posters are observing with multiple Apple IDs. I have one AppleID for everything.

iCloud won't sync to my iPhone

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