I’ve been running into some frustrating contact list issues on my iPhone and tried to debug them by turning off iCloud and Google contact syncing, then turning them back on. As soon as I turned both syncs off, a new list called “All iPhone” appeared. That made sense at first, since it’s the local contact list the phone uses when nothing else is enabled.
The problem is that after I turned iCloud contacts back on, the “All iPhone” list stayed there. It has zero contacts in it, but iOS won’t let me remove or hide it. Normally this list only shows up if there are no other contact accounts active, so once iCloud was re-enabled, it should have disappeared.
At this point, it looks like a bug—but I’m wondering if anyone knows of a hidden setting or workaround that can actually get rid of it. Leaving it there is not just cosmetic: it seems to be messing with a few other things, which is why it’s driving me nuts.
Has anyone else run into this, and is there a secret way to fix it?
The problem is that after I turned iCloud contacts back on, the “All iPhone” list stayed there. It has zero contacts in it, but iOS won’t let me remove or hide it. Normally this list only shows up if there are no other contact accounts active, so once iCloud was re-enabled, it should have disappeared.
At this point, it looks like a bug—but I’m wondering if anyone knows of a hidden setting or workaround that can actually get rid of it. Leaving it there is not just cosmetic: it seems to be messing with a few other things, which is why it’s driving me nuts.
Has anyone else run into this, and is there a secret way to fix it?