Google contacts screwed me up.

[JRoDDz]

I'm using google contacts as my contacts on my daughters phone. When I removed and re-added google contacts while playing around with it yesterday, I lost a whole bunch of contacts. Apparently, most were google sync contacts and a bunch were not. I'm thinking the ones that were not were local to the phone itself?

I had to restore from a backup and got all the contacts back, but when I get it all sorted out I'm storing all contacts on iCloud.

 

[curtisinoc]

I'm using google contacts as my contacts on my daughters phone. When I removed and re-added google contacts while playing around with it yesterday, I lost a whole bunch of contacts. Apparently, most were google sync contacts and a bunch were not. I'm thinking the ones that were not were local to the phone itself?

I had to restore from a backup and got all the contacts back, but when I get it all sorted out I'm storing all contacts on iCloud.

I'm a Google user (mail, contacts, calendar etc. . ) and had the same problems when I set up my iPhone with iCloud. Had duplicate contacts and calendar entries. I think that unless you pick one or the other for syncing (contacts & calendars), duplicate entries are inevitable.

For me, I chose to stick with Google (set up as push/exchange) for mail, contacts and calendars syncing. I disabled iCloud for those features and all is fine now.