Adding iPhone contacts to iCloud

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Adding iPhone contacts to iCloud

I'm not a beginner with iPhone and apple.

But all this syncing and iCloud and mobile me and iDisk over the years has my head spinning.

I have an iPhone 4S and an iPad. I was wondering why only some of my iPhone contacts were syncing with my iPad.

I noticed that a LOT of my new and pre-existing contacts were labeled under "on my iPhone" versus "iCloud" contacts...ergo, not syncing to my iPad.

My laptop is not able to sync to iCloud given that it's running snow leopard.

How do I take ALLL my iPhone contacts and put them in my iCloud so they're sync capable across all my devices running icloud compatible OS?

I have duplicates on my phone and my address book is a mess.

Thanks for any help.

iPhone, iOS 6.1.2

Posted on Aug 10, 2013 4:42 PM

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Answer 1

Dallas Kruse Author

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Aug 10, 2013 5:11 PM in response to Dallas Kruse

I did this ...

iphone:

uncheck icloud sync "contacts"

selected to "Keep Contacts on iPhone"

Turned Sync Contacts back on

selected to MERGE contacts

that resolved my "on my iPhone" groups situation but now I've got double of just about every contact.

Is there an easy way to delete duplicates? Reminder, I don't have a computer to sync to that has the current OS capability to sync to iCloud. My laptop is older and can't run Lion or ML so syncing with "Address Book" is probably a moot point.

any thoughts are appreciated.

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Answer 2

Dallas Kruse Author

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Aug 10, 2013 5:17 PM in response to Dallas Kruse

I just downloaded this app and am trying it.

Will update on its success/fail...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remove-duplicate-contact/id494451397?mt=8

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Answer 3

Sep 17, 2013 10:04 AM in response to Dallas Kruse

This worked for me and I didn't get any duplicates either - bonus! Many Thx Dallas.

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Answer 4

mazelman

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Oct 3, 2013 4:27 PM in response to Dallas Kruse

I do this very same thing that Dallas mentions but in my case the Merge does absolutely nothing insofar as getting new contacts I have created on my iPhone to iCloud. This is a real pain.

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Answer 5

mazelman

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Oct 3, 2013 6:02 PM in response to mazelman

Just worked out my issue. The contacts I have been adding to my iPhone have been going into another group that does not get synced. I have now changed my default contacts account and that should ensure that when I add contacts on my iPhone that they go to the right place.

😁

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Answer 6

j-onas

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Feb 26, 2014 1:59 AM in response to mazelman

I've done the following and it worked:

1. Go to mac and open contacts

2. add your accounts where you've saved contacts + telephone numbers (for instance Gmail, Work etc)

3. Import contacts

4. Right click on account in Contacts and choose export Vcard.

5. Save Vcard on your computer

6. Go to icloud.com and sign in

7. Go to contacts

8. click on settings icon

9. Choose Import Vcard

10. Select your saved Vcard

11. Import

12. Now these contacts are on your iCloud account

13. Repeat for other accounts (gmail, word exchagne etc)

14. Now icloud automatically syns on your iphone and all your contacts are on your iphone and in iCloud

Hope this helps!

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Answer 7

Mar 1, 2014 7:27 PM in response to j-onas

I get an error I tried to do your instructions. I'm on Snow Leopard. Could it be a difference in Address Book?

On import into iCloud it said there was a problem reading the vCards.

I tried it several times and in different ways.

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Answer 8

Apr 22, 2014 2:08 AM in response to Dallas Kruse

Great Answer..it works well...thank you so much

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Answer 9

May 30, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Dallas Kruse

Your suggestion worked like a charm

Thanks

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Answer 10

Mar 24, 2015 8:35 PM in response to Dallas Kruse

Yea! I just did this and it worked perfectly! Now I can see all my recent contacts "on the cloud!" Thank you, Dallas and others! Happy, happy!

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