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Contacts hell !!!!!!!!

Dante44bx

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Why is it that when I backup my contacts on Icloud, I see double and triple duplicates on my Iphone. I even tried deleteting old backups and starting new. Anybody having the same problems???? Shouldnt the contacts on the Iphone take priority when syncing??:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 

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Are you syncing to Google too? Don't do that. Make sure all of your iDevices sync to one, and only one place in "the cloud"
 

Jeremy

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Sounds like there may be more than one account being used here. My brother in law had the same issue. I couldn't figure it out until I realized he had another @me address that was not linked to his iCloud account. It was pretty confusing. is your email that you are using linked to iCloud yet?
 

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As far as I can remember I also ended up with duplicates this was after the first time I disassociated my iPhone from the iCloud, synced to my Windows Contacts via iTunes and then turned on iCloud sync again.

I think duplicates might appear if you restore your iPhone via a previously created iOS backup and then set up iCloud sync. The iCloud would bring back contact entries from the last time you synced with the iCloud.
 

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