Right after I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, I was greeted with iCloud and its syncing options. I enabled all options and thought I was good to go; before iCloud settings threw a warning that it will not merge my Exchange (google sync) contacts with icloud contacts. The problem is that I don't have any contact groups which reside natively on my phone. All my contacts reside on google's servers. Since I had now enabled syncing of contacts on both iCloud and Google sync, it got a little messy- some contacts got uploaded to iCloud and the rest were in google contacts. Here's a step-by-step procedure to move all your google as well as phone contacts to iCloud:
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- Delete your iCloud account from your iDevice if you have added one.
- Connect your device to iTunes on PC/mac.
- Under the info tab, check "sync contacts" and select Google calendar from the dropdown menu.
- Now, when the sync is complete, eject your device and go to contacts app.
- You will see that there is a group called "Contacts from my PC" along with an "All contacts" group.
- Now in the settings app, go to Mail,contacts,calendar > your google sync/exchange account > Delete account or you can simply select to switch off contacts in the sync list.
- A warning will pop up asking you whether you want to delete or keep all the contacts. Tap "Delete contacts".
- Now in your contacts app, all you will be left with is one group - which is "All contacts".
- Next, go to settings> icloud and sign into your iCloud account. Choose to sync whatever data you want including contacts.
- Now all your contacts have been moved from Google to iCloud. A small refresh button can be found in the top left corner of the contacts app when iCloud sync is enabled.
- When you decide to enable google sync later on, it will be best to turn off contacts sync and just get mail and calendar events pushed.
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