My contacts have gone loopy on iCloud....

Thanks for that WC - I'll have to read through it all later - just onmy way out. But, just one quick response - why has it changed when I haven't altered any settings?

Sorry WC - I am obviously a dumb one! I have had a scan through your user tips - and have ended up even more confused. 😟 I asked why the settings have changed - as they obviously have; as they were wroking absilutely fine and now they are not - however, as explained I notice that there is an account that I did not set up @me account which is something that iCloud or Apple Account have done on my behalf I guess. I use myzen email address to sign into iCloud and my apple account. Somewhere along the last few weeks or so my account sign in has been changed to @me.com. It looks as though this is only on my iMac - not on iphone, ipod touch or ipad. So when I add something to address book on imac it no longer updates to iCloud.... but oddly enough my calendar and notes still does? If I attempt to change back the account that I use with contact and address book to sync with iCloud I am warned that I will lose all my contacts on the iMac. That I do not want to do as the iMac holds the correct and updated version. Where to go? I need to get this synced again with the original email that I sed to sign in the Apple iCloud with .. I am terribly confused. I have turned on/off contacts on devices, to no avail. I have checked preferences on Address book iMac and that all appears ok. The devices are set to iCloud as default. humph.... I dunno? I recall getting an email from Apple some time ago saying that they had alocated me a new mail account - I wasn't absolutely sure why - but maybe I should have kept hold of that and used it? Hope you can make some sens of this. Many thanks..

Right - this is where I am at now... I managed to sing out of iCloud account and sign back in with the @me.com account id (?) This has resulted in the following

All notes, calendar and contacts details update from iMac to all devices and iCloud

All notes, calendar and contacts details update from iPad to all devices and iCloud and iMac

All notes, calendar and contacts details update from iCloud to all devices and iMac

All notes, calendar update from iPhone to all devices and iCloud and iMac BUT contacts DO NOT update from iphone...I have obviously missed a crucial setting for contacts somewhere but cannot rtace it at all.

I cannot get this right - but I realy must. Any suggestions?

I am baffled as to why this has changed to the Apple Account ID of @me.com when I always used my default address of myzen.com. How did it change? This has resulted as far as I can see in having 2 iCloud accounts and Apple ID's. Very weird...and very annoying as I can't work out what should be which!

Many thanks

Hi WC. thanks 🙂 I have copied the contacts list to desktop. That's safe.. I understand from anymorgan3 that all Apple ID are the same iCloud account, and as you say it doesn't appear to make any difference which address I sign in with.. My contacts are in my contacts on iMac - that's where I tend to update and edit etc - and they sync from there without problems to my iCloud - and to devices. The problem I have now is that editing contacts on iphone is not pushing through to icloud and therefore not syncing to devices. It was the other way around before I changed a setting - it was not pushing to iphone, but as I now say iphone is not pushing to icloud.... Goodness?? What to do? I don't like the sound of deleting iCloud from ios devices - that's too frightening!

I appear to be going around in circles. 😟 I have succesfully deleted the icloud account from iphone and signed it back in again. This did not solves the problem. I then deleted all the contacts in iMac address book and reimported the cards from desktop. Now.. The iCloud address book is not showing any contacts at all. The phone is showing only the contacts with phone numbers, not birthday contacts or email contacts. What to do? My address book on iMac is correct - everything else is wrong. Do I need to import contacts to iCloud or should it do it automatically if I am signed in?

http://iphone-contacts.over-blog.com/article-iphone-contacts-disappear-106829462 .html

http://transfer-iphone-contacts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/icloud-contacts-not-synci ng.html

Well .... I have sorted it - finally! Not absolutely what did the trick - a combination of everything I think - but for those who have read this thread and need help too you may find the above links useful as well as WC's tips.

Taking time and keeping calm helps - and testing each device at a time - it was very worrying when iCloud cleared all contact - but once I corrected groups on iphone to icloud only and then switch off and restarted it all came back into sync. this was very confusing with all the Apple ID signins - but once I established the same o ne on each device it appears ok now - yippeeeee!