My contacts recently all disappeared, and in their place are just numbers.
I had my icloud contacts sync 'on' previously, but now when i log into icloud.com and look in contacts, none of the contacts are there either - so obviously the sync wasn't working.
I tried toggling the icloud contacts 'on' and 'off', and now when i try to turn it back on, it says it will merge all of my icloud contacts. I hesitate to do this, because when i did that on my mac, it wiped out all the other contacts in my gmail account (some sort of communication via my phone where it tried to take the empty icloud contact list and sync it to my iphone contact list, which was synced to my gmail contact list, so then deleted my gmail contact list).
so a couple questions:
1) i don't think i'm going to be able to restore my contacts on my iphone, and plan to manually re-enter them. but how do i ensure that they will sync to both gmail and icloud? (without icloud erasing my gmail contacts?)
2) why didn't the contacts sync to icloud before, even though i had my contacts synced?
Thanks.