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Cannot sync iphone contacts to address book.

My iphone 4 contacts are not syncing with my address book. I have followed the instructios about checking the sync box on the info pane. I am not syncing my contacts to icloud. Last time i did that, it wiped out all my contacts. Any suggestions?

iPhone 4, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 12:22 PM

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Oct 18, 2012 8:38 AM in response to aquamaewest

Is your Address Book on your Mac empty? Try the following, add a new test contact on your iPhone. Next try to sync again. If nothing happens, make sure you have set up the Default Contact Sync account on your iPhone to point to Address Book.


To do so, go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars and under "Contacts" look at what you have set up as "Default"

Apr 1, 2013 8:40 PM in response to aquamaewest

Well, I used third parties application "Phoneview" to connect to my iPhone 2G where houses all the contacts. Launch the application and click right on Contact Menu -> wait a minute for all contact to show up -> and then select all to highlight contact you want to transfer to Address Book and then hit transfer to Address Book....


Hope that help!

Cannot sync iphone contacts to address book.

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