I needed some of my gmail contacts to email them and get some info, so I decided to sync my google accounts to my iPhone.
The problem is that I have some repeated contacts and I want to delete those from the iPhone, but I don’t know if that will just delete them on the phone or if it’ll affect my google contacts too.
IPhone – If I delete synced Google contacts on the iPhone, does that affect the google contact
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You can trim the contacts you have and setup google sync via exchange and it should only sync your contacts from "My Contacts"
Edit your contacts here:
http://www.google.com/contacts
how to set up your iPhone with google sync:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
Sure. On your iPhone, go into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, select Add Account... and add Google as Exchange (!!!) account. Using Google as Exchange account allows you to sync calendars and contacts.
See http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
Now, gathering together all info spread around, into a checklist format:
Google Sync is only supported on Apple iOS versions 3.0 and above, because that's when Microsoft Exchange was implemented and that's the protocol we will use.
If your business, school, or organization uses Google Apps, your administrator will first need to enable Google Sync. If you're not, then there is no such setup - it's enabled by default.
Double check you're using the correct gmail account - many users have more than one gmail, or google apps, with similar mails due to forwarding and often mistake this.
Be sure to follow the steps mentioned above. Every configuration has to be done properly and it must lastly look something like this, from
Mail, Contacts, Calendars > [your account] > Exchange Account [your email]:
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Best Answer
If you're only seeing the duplicates on your iPhone, they're most likely in different Groups. You can check this by opening Contacts on your phone and tapping the Groups button (screenshot below). If you see a group called iPhone, those are stored exclusively on your phone and deleting them will not affect your Google contacts. You can uncheck the Google group to show (and ensure you only delete) contacts from your phone. Deleting contacts from the Google group will affect your Google contacts.