Iphone contacts

steveluck7

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May 10, 2007
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My phone updated last night to iOS 14.3. This morning, many of my contacts have been seemingly wiped away. There doesn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason for the ones left over. Has this happened to anyone before? I looked online for solutions. Their 2 best were to re-start the phone (already did that) and to re-sync with icloud contacts. I did that with no success.
 

canderson

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Make sure you have all the contact groups selected (IE if you have some through Google, some through a work app, etc) make sure all groups are selected in Contacts view.
 

steveluck7

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Thanks. I just checked and they're all turned on so that's not it. We used to have our e-mail through exchange on my phone but during the last update, our IT dept. said the exchange "mail" app wouldn't work anymore and we'd need to download and use the Outlook app. That's the only thing i can think of... this update must have wiped my contacts that were managed through the exchange server. I can't seem to find a way to sync contacts form my outlook app.
 

AlNipper49

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Thanks. I just checked and they're all turned on so that's not it. We used to have our e-mail through exchange on my phone but during the last update, our IT dept. said the exchange "mail" app wouldn't work anymore and we'd need to download and use the Outlook app. That's the only thing i can think of... this update must have wiped my contacts that were managed through the exchange server. I can't seem to find a way to sync contacts form my outlook app.
There are third party apps that can do this
 

canderson

Mr. Brightside
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Jul 16, 2005
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Harrisburg, Pa.
Thanks. I just checked and they're all turned on so that's not it. We used to have our e-mail through exchange on my phone but during the last update, our IT dept. said the exchange "mail" app wouldn't work anymore and we'd need to download and use the Outlook app. That's the only thing i can think of... this update must have wiped my contacts that were managed through the exchange server. I can't seem to find a way to sync contacts form my outlook app.
This might help you: https://blog.goptg.com/the-problem-with-getting-your-office-365-contacts-on-an-iphone
 

steveluck7

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