How to fix missing or not syncing contacts with iCloud in iOS 7.1.2

It may happen that when entering a contact in your iPhone Contacts application, it does not appear in your desktop application. The application that should keep this application synchronized, among others, is iCloud and after updating to iOS 7.1.2 there are users who does not synchronize them or even worse, contacts disappear.

I have to remember that iCloud operability on the iPhone or on any Mac is limited to the moment in which we have the device connected to a wifi, If you stop to think it is obvious, otherwise we would spend an infinity of data just making backup copies and updating any of the applications that we have synchronized through iCloud.

Said that let's see how to solve the problem that addresses us today.

Save new contacts to iCloud by default

Normally this error occurs in people who have multiple emails configured on the iPhone and the default values ​​do not direct the synchronization to the iCloud service, but to the last configured email. Let's see how to do it:

1. Opens Settings
2. Accede to Mail, contacts, calend.
3. Scroll down this menu until you find the section that deals with contacts. Now you will see that it appears as the last option within this configuration to determine the «Default account«
4. Make sure you have iCloud selected

It is possible that the option of «Default account»Does not appear to you, this is the case of people who they only have one email account configured and it is the same as they have as Apple ID, so there is no need to do anything else, the error does not come from this step.

Locate unsynced contacts

We can avoid the disappearance of the contacts by means of the synchronization that I have explained before, but what about the contacts that are not synchronized? What happens with them is that to proceed to integrate them into all devices you will have to work them from scratch. Let's see how to know what they are:

1. Start the application Phone
2. Tap on Groups (up to the right). All contacts will appear according to the originating email account depending on the ones you have configured.
3. Uncheck inside the iCloud section «Everyone in iCloud«
4. Click on Ok (up to the right)
5. Now a list of contacts that are not synced or missing from other devices.

From here it is up to your sole discretion what to do with them, erase them because they are not important or re-add them. What it is very important is that once the check is done and whether you want to simply exit or if you want to add the detected contacts, click again «Everyone in iCloud« before exiting this group option.

I hope it has been useful to you and if you have doubts, comment !!