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if it would only work this way..mine is completely screwed up. Even though I turn off the sync feature before I disconnect, next time I connect the iphone it automatically syncs again, even though it told me before disconnecting that it will not sync anymore. Screwed up is saying it mildly: I have tried it countless times and it will keep syncing even though i uncheck the box. So I call it fucked up, really fucked up ;<

It may be that you’re managing your sync settings through iTunes. I’d check that too as well as the Mac Address Book settings. Hopefully that will help.

I’ve got about 600 contacts (mostly email addresses) in address book on my mac and about 150 contacts on my iphone that all have phone numbers.  What I want to do is to have a separate file on my mac to back up the iphone contacts only.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Hmm. This would be an ugly way of doing it but you could do a full export of all of your Mac Address Book Contacts, temporarily delete the contacts, sync with iPhone, make a second backup, delete, and then re-import your original set of contacts. 

Otherwise you can probably try separating out your original contacts into a new group, and viewing your original contacts through that group. That way you don’t have to futz with deleting and can continuously sync. 

Ada

I like this post but the sync did not copy the Notes for each contact.  Is there any way to do that?

i would only like to export my contacts to my address book, basically I’d like to keep certain contacts in the address book and not my iphone, and everytime i delete them on my phone, they pop back up when i’d like to leave it in  my address book only,

Neither my contacts nor my apps get uploaded from my iPhone to my Mac.  

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I followed these directions but the sync didn’t apply. Anyone else having this problem?

I followed these same instructions and the sync doesn’t work. Anyone else have this issue? I created several groups on macbook pro, but they’re not showing up in the iPhone’s Contacts.

It says YAHOO contacts. How do I see/store all of the contacts that are on my iphone onto my macbook?

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it worked. thanks for being clear and concise.

Fantastic. Followed your instructions and it took less than a minute to sync my entire contact list. Many many thanks.

“I followed these same instructions and the sync doesn’t work.” Yea. Me too. iTunes 10.5.2 and OSX 10.7.2

It was iCloud for me. Had to go to Address Book Preferences…and remove iCloud account. Which DELETED all the contacts in the Address Book. Thank god for backups. Restored all the contacts I had in my backup to the Address Book. Then the iTunes / iPhone contact sync worked fine.

My phone contacts seem to be syncing with my Mac as it appears from the iTunes progress bar. However, the contacts from iPhone do not seem to be updated on the Mac’s Address Book. On the contrary any new contacts created on iPhone are getting erased by this sync process. Appreciate any help.

I get Itunes and click then double click on my iphone in devices but nothing happens.  Where am I supposed to find the info tab???  

I click on my iphone listed under devices and nothing happens.  You say, “ On the top navigation, navigate to Info, which is directly to the right of Summary.”    Where is the top navigation????  How do you navigate to Info???  

Same here… instructions didn’t work for me until I followed Gary Hardy’s comment and Signed out from iCloud BUT chose to keep the contacts on my Mac, so no contacts were erased from the Address Book. Then forced replaced contacts in iTunes with Mac and sync gave the desired result!

Worked great thanks!!

I also had the iCloud problem.  Heres the quick solution.  On the iPhone go to settings > iCloud> then turn contacts off.  Go back to iTunes and sync as directed above.  When the sync is complete you can turn iCloud contacts back on and everything will be as it should.  You dont have to delete your account or anything to do this.

I have had a Blackberry and changed to iphone and am finding that addresses appear to double up  on phone ipad  and iphone::::::

+ in address book there are 2 icons 1)Silhouette of head2) Shape of 3 buildingsI am in the process of deleting double entries on my computor -is this correct?

I was a big help for me

THANK YOU!! I spent like two hours searching the internet for a way to merge my contacts and this was the only correct information!! So helpful!!

Thanks for your help. I had an iCloud, Mac, iPhone meltdown. All fixed now.