Hi, To get around this, I'd go into Settings, iCloud and turn off Contacts. Your iPhone will ask if you want to keep a copy locally on your iPhone or to delete them. Normally, I tell it to delete them so I don't get duplicates etc, but in your case, I'd tell it to keep them locally on your iPhone. So, what's happened then, is that you're no longer linked to iCloud with your Contacts, but you've now got all your iCloud and local Contacts in one spot. Back out of iCloud and Settings and go into your Contacts app to confirm that you still have them all. If life is good, then back out of Contacts and go into Settings, iCloud again and re-enable the Contacts service. All the contacts on your iPhone should now go back up to iCloud. In this process, it should recognize the ones that already exist in iCloud and only add the ones that do not exist in your iCloud Contacts. Give it a few minutes to sync everything up, then see if the new contacts show up in the Contacts app on your Mac. If they do, then all is good. If you wish, you could then follow this process one more time, but in this version, tell your iPhone that you don't want to keep a copy of your contacts on the iPhone. Once you re-enable the Contacts service, only iCloud Contacts will remain on your iPhone. Should save a small amount of storage and just clean things up some.
Hope this makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 1, 2017, at 08:30, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: Hi Tim, One problem I have discovered is that some of my contacts are not in iCloud but in the the iPhone contacts. So far I have not found a way to transfer them back into iCloud. I could enter them again as new contacts but I do not know how many there are yet. Is there a way to transfer them? >From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/31/2017 10:56 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > The CardDAV listed is simply an indication of the protocol that is being used > for that specific account. The Apple Contacts app uses the cardDAV protocol > and Google along with other services allows for syncing with Apple devices > using the CardDAV protocol. So, if you have a list of contacts within your > Contacts area of your gMail account, those contacts are made available to the > Mac's Contacts app. Those cards made available through Google and some other > services seem to be pseudo cards, in that they don't appear to be specific > vCards within your Contacts app. They are accessible to you, and will be one > of the addresses available when sending eMails,, but I don't think that an > actual card is created for them. > > When you select All Contacts from the Groups list, you'll notice that, even > though you may have a card listed in multiple accounts, usually only one is > listed in the All Contacts list. The Contacts app seems to link those > together for listing purposes, even though they haven't been physically > linked. At least that's what I've determined. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jan 30, 2017, at 19:39, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Tim and all, > I started working on this and have some questions. First, I found most of my > contacts on the iPhone had been linked. Hopw did that happen? A change that > came in iOS 10? > > On the Mac, disabled sync in all accounts. While there, I noticed in the > Mac's Contacts preferences. each account shows "cardDAV". I do not remember > seeing this prior to Sierra. > > That made me wonder. Does enabling sync for the non iCloud accounts actually > mean contacts for each account or just one? I have a Google and a Charter > account. What I am asking is, if I enable sync for all accounts, will they > access a single Contacts or is this for say, a Google address book? > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. > E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 1/30/2017 6:37 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yes, that would work just fine. Just make sure that you turn off iCloud >> syncing for Contacts in System Prefs first before doing any wiping, >> otherwise, you'll lose it all. Also, when it asks if you want to keep a >> copy of your contacts on your Mac, say "No". This should help to make sure >> that there's no duplicates when you re-enable syncing of contacts. It >> should have figured that out the first time, but computers do mess up >> sometimes :). >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Jan 29, 2017, at 21:48, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> I may not have looked at Contacts since installing Sierra so not sure when >> things went south. >> >> I found duplicates so used the look for duplicates function. In the On My >> Mac section, all the groups are doubled. >> >> So before I do any more on the Mac, I will look at the contacts on my >> iPhone. If that looks good, I want to know if I can safely disable syncing >> of contacts on the Mac and wipe them then enable syncing again. Would that >> work? Thanks. >> >> From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . >> I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. >> E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com >> > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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