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When I updated my iPhone 3GS to i06, my contacts were messed up. Some of my contacts were lost, and one of my contacts which I had two numbers for, a new one and an old number, now only has one number and it is the old one. So, will I get my original contacts back if I choose the "Delete from my iPhone" choice?
iPhone 3GS, iOS 6.1
If you turn off Contacts in Settings>iCloud and choose Delete from My iPhone, all the iCloud contacts will be deleted from your phone, but not from your iCloud account. After doing so, if you turn it back to on the contacts in your iCloud account (and visible on icloud.com when you check from your computer) will be synced back to your phone.
If you turn off Contacts in Settings>iCloud and choose Delete from My iPhone, all the iCloud contacts will be deleted from your phone, but not from your iCloud account. After doing so, if you turn it back to on the contacts in your iCloud account (and visible on icloud.com when you check from your computer) will be synced back to your phone.
So, by turning off Contacts in Settings to my iCloud, I understand now that the iCloud contacts will be deleted from my iPhone, but not my iCloud account, which is great. But, will I have my old contacts back that were on my iPhone before the iCloud connection changed it?
You would have to check your contacts on icloud.com from your computer. Those are the contacts that will be synced back to your phone when you turn contacts back on in Settings>iCloud.
But, right now, I don't want my iCloud contacts. I want my contacts that were on my iPhone contacts list on the phone itself before I connected with the iCloud account. If I delete the iCloud contacts from my iPhone by selecting that choice, will I still have my original contacts on my iPhone which were on my iPhone before the iCloud account connection? (The iCloud account has more contacts listed than I want on my iPhone right now. I want what I had before.)
I'm away right now and can't give you a complete answer to your question for an hour or so. Suggest you leave things as they are until I get back to you.
Thank you! I'll wait! I probably never should have agreed to connect to the iCloud in the first place but I was in a hurry and didn't really stop to think what that would do!
Open contacts app and check if you have the "Groups" button (upleft corner).
If so tap on it and check what contacts are stored on each account.
Cheonweb -- I looked at the Groups button (Thanks - I didn't even realize that was there.) and it shows that the groups listed are all on iCloud.
Are you sure that you don't have the "On my iPhone" group?
So i think that your old original contacts are "Merged" with iCloud (you choose that when you turned ON iCloud Contacts settings for the first time) and you can't separate them from contacts that you add after you turned ON iCloud.
Not to muddy the waters, but can you summarize what contacts are on your phone right now; specifically:
Did you ever synced your Contacts through iTunes with Outlook or Contacts app on your computer?
Regarding the first question:
- The contacts on my iPhone right now, due to the connection with iCloud, are numbers that came from the iCloud account (which, unfortunately is my husband's account - I didn't realize it). Although we have some of the same people on our contacts, his, of course, contains his business contacts as well. Before the connection, my contacts were my social contacts and my business contacts. It looks like that not all my contacts from before the iCloud connection are there as some are missing and all of them have missing punctuation marks. All my photos that were on the contacts of the people are missing as well.
- I will have to check and see if my contacts are on the iCloud account also. Haven't checked that yet.
By the way, this all happened when I loaded the i06 update. That's when it asked me if I wanted to store it on iCloud. And when I clicked on it, everything changed on my contacts.
Concerning syncing with iTunes. I remember doing that when I got my first iPhone a couple of times, but after that, I don't think I have synced it at all since with every new iPhone, the store just transfers everything over from my old iPhone to the new iPhone.
I think the purpose of the question was to see if you had a backup of your contact on your computer in Outlook. Is that the case?
I believe what has happened is that you are now sharing the same iCloud account with your husband, and you are both syncing your contacts with the shared account. (You can confirm this by checking the account name in Settings>iCloud on both phones.)
When you do this, any data you sync with the shared account (such as contacts) is merged, and the merged data appears on all devices sharing the account. The important thing right now, is that neither of you start deleting the contacts you don't want from your phone. If you do, they will simultaneously be deleted from iCloud and the other phone, and they will be lost. If you are missing some of your former contacts, I suspect it is because your husband deleted them from his phone, not realizing that this would also delete them from yours.
Please confirm that you are both sharing the same iCloud account and I'll give you the steps to separate the phones again. Also let me know if you have a backup of your former contacts on your computer in Outlook.
What will happen to my iPhone contacts if I choose to "Delete from my iPhone" the previously synced contacts from the iCloud?
