Syncing or backing up does NOT move any of the over 200 contacts I have on my iPad to iCloud. Contacts in "On" in the iPad. Opening Contacts from the iCloud link on my computer shows no contacts at all in the cloud.
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Open contacts on your iPad and tap Groups. Do you have any non-iCloud accounts listed, such as On My iPad, Gmail, Yahoo or an exchange account?
Also go to Settings>Mail,Contacs,Calendars>Default Account (in the Contact section). Do you have the Default Account setting listed there, and if so, what is selected as your default account?
Thanks for the reply.
1. Opening contacts on the iPad directly opens an alphabetical list of all the contacts. There is no field labelled "Groups"
2. The default account listed is my iCloud account
It's possible that you don't have any groups. Do you see "Groups listed on the top left (in blue) when you open the contacts app?
No, I have no groups and no "Groups" field anywhere to be seen.
As a precaution, start by downloaing the app My Contacts Backup to your iPad. Use the app to back up the your contacts as a vCard attachment to an email that you send to yourself. If necessary, this can later be used to import the contacts back to your iPad. Confirm that you have received the email.
Then go to Settings>iCloud, turn Contacts off and choose Delete from My iPad when prompted. (This deletes any iCloud contacts from your iPad.) Wait about 15 seconds, then turn Contacts back on, and if prompted, choose Merge with iCloud. Check icloud.com from your computer to see if your contacts are there now.
Thanks much. Could only get back to the problem this morning, but your suggestion worked just fine. I now have all my contacts on iCloud, and using the backup file I sent myself, have loaded them into my computer. Thanks again.
You're welcome.
How can I move a number of contacts from iPad to iCloud?
