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EIght of us are using the i phone 7 and most of us encounter the same issue of contacts not syncin. The solution we have found so far is to restart the phone. Could you imagine when you are in a hurry to get through to a person in your contacts restarting your phone!!!
It is very strange that Apple haven't found a solution to this issu.
iPhone 7, iOS 10.1.1
I think I've found the answer to this issue. If you click on groups while in contacts and select all of the available groups but most importantly "contacts" this will show the contacts back as normal. I'm not sure if this is the same for everyone but it appears that after the update only "iCloud" contacts is selected in the groups on my phone.
I think I've found the answer to this issue. If you click on groups while in contacts and select all of the available groups but most importantly "contacts" this will show the contacts back as normal. I'm not sure if this is the same for everyone but it appears that after the update only "iCloud" contacts is selected in the groups on my phone.
Contacts disappearing on iphone 7 with OS 10.2
And also pictures, mails, calenders, apps docs, ...
This is a big problem and as I can read on the internet in many blog and forum, many people have this issue...!!!
Already since iphone 4...
I bought my new iphone 7 and installed from icloud, Perfect installation and everything is there and works!
This is what happened...
-I
add a new telephone number to my iphone contacts to add a friend to Whatsapp.
-My iphone Contacts disappear.
-My iphone Calenders disappear.
-My ipone Foto's disappear.
-My Mails disappear.
-Several apps have lost data.
-My phone settings change random.
This is what I do...
-I delete Whatsapp
-I restart
-I switch off and on icloud
-I switch off and on gmail
-I reset and reinstall from icloud
-i reinstall Whatsapp
-i repeat all of this +10 times...
All of these steps many times...
NO RESULTS - NOTHING COME BACK
Remarks...
-Icloud gave me a choice to reinstall so I choose a backup from 3 weeks before. Sure this one is ok!!!
When startup I could see my Contacts for less than 1 second... and gone again!!!
-I retype some of my contacts and after I do a backup on icloud to be sure.
-I typed my contacts new in the app switched to 'in my phone'. If I switch off icloud now they disappear again... If I switch on again they come back and now include useful numbers from my telephone company???
Also I cannot see the 'in my iphone' setting anymore for contacts???
My idea...
-Something seriously wrong with my iphone or the OS or the icloud...?
-i read blogs and everything I could find about this problem... Many people have this issue and most of them did not succeed getting them back...???
Hi guys,
I was suffering from this problem but my issue was that those contacts dissapearing were assigned to my email address, so when I would deselect to have my contacts fro that email add, they would disappear .
Following iPhone 7 iOS 11.0.1 upgrade (I did not backup phone)
I found that I had lost some of my contacts, names have disappeared from those who have sent me messages.
I fixed this by restoring from iTunes however I lost a whole month of WhatsApp, text, notes etc,
When the next upgrade was available I backed up phone to iCloud, then I backed up to my PC and Macbook!!
iOS 11.0.2 -Software was upgraded successfully.
It is now 2 days after the upgrade. My Phone / Contacts were fine, all of a sudden it's happened again!!
I tried contacts
Groups
All iCloud (ticked)
OWA (ticked)
unticked and switched back on no joy!!
I have restarted the phone still no Joy
As per Mr T's comments above.
I had OWA running (work emails) work have now blocked me using OWA due to phone being a personal device.
I noticed in my mail settings I had Exchange with incorrect details.
I deleted Exchange I believe this may be the source of my problems. I will restore phone from back up and confirm later.
Dear sir
I am useing IPHONE since last 5 years and now I have brought a new IPHONE 7 and when I use my apple User I'd and iCloud my existing contacts are not showing in contacts
ie : when I call one of my friend that time my contacts are not showing in contacts scerach..
Kindly help
Hi I bought a iPhone 7 recently and have synced my contacts through gmail and iCloud .. My contact list says it has 856 contacts when I Scroll down the list of my contacts on this phone but in actual there are only a hundred contacts seen and the other numbers are not to be seen. For example the contact Jawahar is synced through my accounts but I can’t find the name in my contacts. When I dial the number of Jawahar it says Jawahar below which means its saved. But the name does not appear when I scroll down through my contacts of search his name in my contacts. What am I supposed to do for this weird glitch ?
Hello, if anyone else is having this issue, I found that in the cellular tab, contacts were turned off. This helped my issue. My son has my phone at times(He's 3) and must have found his way to the cellular tab and turned off contacts. 😟
patcolombo wrote:
issue of contacts not syncin.
It is very strange that Apple haven't found a solution to this issu.
You do not indicate how you are syncing these contacts and what you are syncing them to.
If you do not describe the issue, it is very difficult for anyone to find a solution. I'm using iCloud on my iPhone 7 and my contacts are syncing just fine, as well as my calendar.
Try describing the situation and everything involved, and what troubleshooting you have tried.
HI Chrisj4203,
THank you for yo swift reply. What I meant was my contact list disappears from the phone occasionally. Meaning, when i need to contact someone in my contact list the list is blank and after restarting the phone the names appear. Appreciate if you could help us with this issue please.
You still are telling us anything. Okay, your contacts disappear, but then reappear when you turn the phone off/on? Where are the contacts to start with? Are they on a supported application on the computer? Are they in iCloud? Are they synced to another cloud service such as Gmail, etc., or work Exchange?
If we can determine where they are, it can explain why they reappear. Then we would just need to try and determine why they disappear. And, what is the connection between the eight of you. Do you all use the same carrier, the same Apple ID, the same sync services, what? Is this an Exchange account from work? Or is it just random that there are eight of you?
What I meant by syncing is, that my contacts does not appear in the contact list occasionally. I am also using the icloud for my mail, contacts, notes, calander and reminders. All my contacts are stored in the contacts app apple has provided.
As trouble shooting, I have followed the procedure given under 'get help using icloud contacts, calandres or reminders' and the problem occurred after following the steps given in that too.
Hi,
In addition to my previous reply, eight of us are working together. We use different apple id's but the same carrier. Moreover, out of the eight some users are not having this issue.
Instead of turning the phone off and back on, have you tried turning iCloud sync off for contacts and then turn that back on? Seems to me there is some type of disconnect in your internet connection that would cause your contacts to be missing like that, but then come back. You can also try logging out of your iCloud account on the phone and then back on again. I've not experienced any issues like this with my iPhone 7, and I use iCloud for both my contacts and calendar. Does this seem to be when you are connected to wi-fi, or to cellular data, or to both?
What is the difference between those of you having issues in this group and those not? Do you use a different cellular carrier? Do you have different settings for your cellular data?
Yes I have done that as well. What I feel is that the iOS 10.1.1 has an issue with some handsets. The iphone 6s which I used for the last one year without any issue was also having the same problem ever since I upgraded it to the iOS 10.1.1.
This occurs when I am on both wifi and cellular data. To be very precise out of eight, six of us were having this issue and all eight are using the same carrier and located in the same office. As per your advice, if the problem persists I will log out and log in from my icloud account. As a matter of fact, I have been a very loyal apple user ever since the apple 4 and have not had any issues with any of my devices.
The analysis of my IT guys are that it is bug on the iOS 10.1.1. Anyhow, I didn't encounter this issue for the last two days and hope it is sorted out.
My iPhone 7 contacts disappear
