Uploading iPhone Contacts

[joe]

Here is a possible solution for iPhone users in syncing their phone's contacts list to the MFT.

Background - When we first bought the car, the iPhone uploaded the entire contacts list to the car.  But recently, we found that only the same six contacts would upload to the car.
 
After trying unsuccessfully to upload contact list, our conclusion was that it wasn’t the MFT but it had to be an iPhone setting.  After thoroughly looking through the iPhone settings, we discovered that a change in the iPhone's sync option prevented the entire contacts list to be uploaded.  Here is our solution:
 
1.  In the iPhone, go to Settings
2.  Make sure bluetooth is connected
3.  Make sure Sync is connected
4.  Press the “i” symbol to the right of the Sync selection.
5.  Scroll down to Groups - make sure “all contacts” is checked.
6.  Uncheck favorites and recents if checked.

 

Because we had the "recents" checked, and not "all contacts", only the six most "recents" uploaded.

Hope this helps.
Joe

Edited January 28, 2014 by joe

[mtb9153]

Thanks Joe, I have done this for my iPhone5.  I was not aware of this setting never pushed the "i" before

[FordIVTteam]

Thanks for posting this, joe! As a side note, some Android phones will also download "Groups" if they are selected.

Rebecca