I use to have an android phone, so all my contacts phone numbers were saved on to the google server. Well before I just synced it through exchange to get them on my iPhone. Now I'm having a problem with my iPhone always looking for mail even though I have it turned off
If I delete my exchange account how else can I get all my phone numbers outside of manually entering all of them.
Do you not need the Google account? It sounds like you just don't know how to adjust your settings properly. What, exactly, are you trying to turn off?
If you want to turn off mail for that account then go to Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars, select the account, and turn Mail off.
If you want to receive mail but don't want the notifications/alerts then go to sounds and set Mail to None and/or go to Notifications and adjust the notification settings for Mail.
If you want to pull instead of having gmail pushed then make sure you're adjusting settings at both Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Fetch New Data
and Settings->Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Fetch New Data->Advanced->(your gmail account).
You don't have to remove the account if you want the contacts synced from the account and syncing with the account (or another account with the contacts you want transferred to that account) is really the best way to have the contacts on your device. Otherwise if you lose your device you lose your contacts stored only on the device.
can't you just sync your gmail account, sync with the cloud, then delete the mail account? Try that and just make sure they are on the cloud by going to
www.icloud.com
Nope. Contacts synced from Google are only synced with Google. They don't sync with iCloud as well. If you remove the Google account it removes the Google contacts. For what you're describing the contacts would have to be migrated to iCloud.
Well, I've never set up a GMail with exchange and push "off" because, well, that's the whole point.
The point is always subjective. My wife used Google contacts but didn't use gmail for years. Don't just assume that your preferences and situation are universal no matter what the topic.
