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100 Chapter 9 : Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information
NOTE If you see Delete Other Profiles rather than Delete All Profiles, you have
linked contacts that come from accounts whose info you can't change on your
device (like Facebook and LinkedIn). Tap it. To delete any remaining profiles, go
to the account online using your computer and delete them there.
If you delete a contact that is assigned to an online account, the
contact is deleted in the online account also.
Customize Contacts
1 Open Contacts .
2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.
3 Set the following options:
List Order: Tap to select the criteria by which the contact list is
sorted. If you select Last name to sort on, the names are
alphabetized by last name, but they still appear in the Contacts list
as first name followed by last name. If you select First name to sort
on, names are alphabetized by first name.
1 Contact list sorted by first name
2 Contact list sorted by last name
You can also choose to sort by Company & first name or Company
& last name. In these cases, the company name is alphabetized,
and within the company, whichever you choose, the names are still
listed as first name followed by last name.
Default account: Tap the current default account to change the
default to another account. New contacts you create are assigned to
this account unless you specify otherwise.
Accounts: Tap an account to change login settings and sign in using
the new settings.
Add an account: Tap, and then tap an account type. Enter the
account information. Before you can set up an account on your
device, you must already have an account online with the provider.
Sync Now: Tap to manually synchronize your online accounts (see
Manually synchronize Contacts with your online accounts).
4Tap Done.
Manually synchronize Contacts with your online accounts
If you want to get contacts from an online account on your device
immediately, or upload contacts from your device to the online account,
you can do a manual sync. This synchronizes Contacts with all the
accounts you have set up on your device, and it syncs all other apps
associated with all online accounts that you selected for synchronization.
1 Open Contacts .
2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.
3Tap Sync Now.
Delete an online account from Contacts
If you synchronize contacts with an online account, deleting the account
from Contacts stops synchronization of contacts only—if you also sync
email or calendar events with that online account, those continue to