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I can't see my new contacts

I have been used iphone 4s before and recently I've brought a new iphone 6s so I sync all of my contact to icloud and they all appear in my new iphone6s perfectly but when I tried to add new contact on my iphone 6s, I cannot see any of my new contact on my contact list or icloud. what should i do?

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Jan 29, 2016 9:13 PM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2016 9:15 PM

Check to see what your default contact list is. And on the iPhone, go to Contacts, check in the upper left corner, and click to make sure you are seeing all groups. I'll bet that On My Phone is the default list, and that is why they are not appearing in iCloud. You need to display all on the phone, and make sure new contacts are being added to iCloud as the default.

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Jan 29, 2016 9:15 PM in response to magebamii

Check to see what your default contact list is. And on the iPhone, go to Contacts, check in the upper left corner, and click to make sure you are seeing all groups. I'll bet that On My Phone is the default list, and that is why they are not appearing in iCloud. You need to display all on the phone, and make sure new contacts are being added to iCloud as the default.

Jan 29, 2016 9:30 PM in response to magebamii

magebamii wrote:


Thank you. i've been checked it already. it seems like my new contact goes to my email contact which i closed it since there are lots of them and i don't want it to show that useless contact on my iphone. is there any method to save new contact only on my phone so i can screen whose contact i want to see only on my phone?

I'm sorry, I do not know what you mean by the contact is being saved to your email contact. Are you saying that you use another cloud account linked to your email? You are saving a contact to your email contact? You need to try and explain better what you are doing, especially the part about email contact being closed and being useless.

Jan 29, 2016 9:47 PM in response to magebamii

I'm sorry. I don't know much about IT and english isn't my first language so it's hard to explain to you. It's like when i tried to find a recently add contact i have to enable my contact from my email User uploaded file

like this.

So there are plenty of my mail contacts which comes from my email (there are email only) on my phone too. and i don't want them I just want my contact that I add it myself from iphone to show. not all contact from my email.


So can i ask if i add a new contact now. where will it goes and how can i sync them to my icloud again? thank you

Jan 30, 2016 7:37 AM in response to magebamii

When you have multiple sources for contacts, the way to make it where you do not see all the others is to tap on it and remove the checkmark by the group name. You will also have to go into Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and then under the Contacts section, choose which account is your default contact account. That is where your contacts will be saved. Make sure you select iCloud and you should not have any problems.

I can't see my new contacts

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