iPhone Contact Groups - Move Contacts

[Manchester]

Hi, just looking for a solution, and hope that someone can help out.

So I added my work email to my mail account, and selected for some reason to sync the contacts.

It would appear that since adding the account, all new contacts have been stored against a group to do with work, irrelevant of whether the contacts are work related or personal.
If I uncheck contacts from the account settings, it removes the contacts.

So, is there a way to move them over to my phone, out of the work group? Which will then let me remove contacts from the account setting.
Currently, these contacts aren’t backed up by iCloud.

Any help appreciated.

 

[NoBoMac]

iCloud.com has some ability to move cards from one group to another, but don't think that will work in this case (can give it a look).

There are apps out there that will move contacts around for you. Have not used any of them, just know they are out there as a friend ran into same issue some time back. Install the app, move the contacts, and then make sure default group for Contacts is not work group.

And turn on iCloud for Contacts going forward.