My iPhone is linked to my Gmail account and to my work Outlook Exchange account.
How can I move contacts from one to the other, and, also, select which account I'm using when I create a new contact?
iPhone, Other OS
I will trust your judgment on not being able to move contacts to another group once they are created.
But how can I choose which account they belong to when creating a contact?
Example:
My sister-in-law sent a text message to my wife and I, and since I didn't recognize the number, but know it's her, I used the "Create as new contact" feature in the iPhone to add her to my contacts.
Today, I notice she is in my work contacts on the Exchange server. Not where she belongs, and if I ever change jobs, I don't want to lose her record, so I wanted to select "Gmail Contacts" for her when creating the new record, but I don't see how to do it.
Please let me know if it's there somewhere and I am missing it?
I will trust your judgment on not being able to move contacts to another group once they are created.
But how can I choose which account they belong to when creating a contact?
Example:
My sister-in-law sent a text message to my wife and I, and since I didn't recognize the number, but know it's her, I used the "Create as new contact" feature in the iPhone to add her to my contacts.
Today, I notice she is in my work contacts on the Exchange server. Not where she belongs, and if I ever change jobs, I don't want to lose her record, so I wanted to select "Gmail Contacts" for her when creating the new record, but I don't see how to do it.
Please let me know if it's there somewhere and I am missing it?
I was able to fix this by downloading a Contact Cleaner app. I had the same problem where I had 46 contacts in an exchange account and wanted to add them to my iCloud account. On Accounts, I selected the exchange account with the 46 contacts, selected them all then shared them by email to myself. Opened iCloud from the web then added the vCard with the 46 contacts.
Done!
You can't move contacts to another group
To select which groups are displayed:
Contacts > Groups (upper left corner) > select what you want
Settings/ Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then scroll down to the Contacts section where you can set the default account that contacts get saved to.
Unfortunately, when creating a contact it will always use the default and not give you a choice of which account to save it under (unlike a new calendar event).
That looks accurate. Thank you Rock for saving me a trip to the genius bar!
You're welcome.
I've been longing for the ability to choose which account a new contact goes, but alas here we are at iOS 7.1 today and it is still not possible. Add your voice to mine if you want this ability:
Multiple accounts in Contacts--how to determine which account is used?
