I've entered a contact to my "contacts" on the iPhone. Once I hit done the contact is saved but doesn't show in the contact list. A while later it shows up and then intermittently disappears. I have my iPhone synced with my iPad and for a while the contact showed on the iPad contacts but not the iPhone now it disappeared from both. Any idea what might cause it or how to correct?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.3
When you go into Contacts, look up on the left corner, do you see anything there, such as All Contacts? It may be you are saving the contacts in a different group.
If you havent got these devices connected and backed up to the cloud, I would suggest doing so. That way your contacts are backed up there, and even if for some reason they disappear from the device, they can be viewed at icloud.com.
Thanks Nick. I do have my contacts backed up to the cloud. I know the contacts are there it is just the intermittent appear and disappear that I'm unable to resolve.
I see groups on the left when I click on it I see that both my iCloud and my Yahoo! Groups are both checked.
When you say they disappear, do they reappear again? I'm wondering if this is happening as your contacts are syncing with the service you are syncing to, as in Yahoo Groups. I'm not sure how Yahoo Groups works, but if this is where you are saving them, I wonder if you get disconnected from the Yahoo server momentarily, they would disappear. This is the same way Exchange contacts are. If you get disconnected from the Exchange server, you cannot access contacts.
I have had the same thing happen, followed by all mail disappearing and then suddenly trying to re-download (over and over), photos disappearing and then trying to restore, calendars disappearing, and messages disappearing.
Contact keeps appearing and disappearing from iPhone
