When your iPhone doesn’t save contacts, several factors could be at play:
Before you begin troubleshooting these problems, first attempt to force restart your iPhone. This often solves minor software glitches.
A force restart completelyshuts down your iPhonewithout saving data. This will usually fix any minor bugs and glitches that might have cropped up on your system.
For iPhone 8 and newer
For iPhone 7 and lower
Set iCloud As Default Account
If you use other accounts like Gmail or Outlook to save your contacts, it can sometimes not work as intended. To fix such incompatibility issues, you may set Apple’s own iCloud as the default account for saving contacts.
Another reason why you could face this issue is due to theiCloud syncing problem. In such cases, disable sync contacts and re-enable it to start the syncing process anew.
Use Default Contacts App
Your contacts might not get saved properly if you’re using third-party apps likeWhatsappor Viber to do so.
Your iPhone works best when inside the Apple ecosystem. So, tryswitching to the defaultContacts appif you are using third-party apps.
Go to All Contact Groups
Sometimes, when your recently saved contacts are not being displayed, they could be present in another contact group.
iPhone allows you to group your contacts and it also automatically creates groups based on your different accounts.
If you’re in a particular group contact, you won’t be able to see the contacts of another group. So, you may go to all contact groups to see all of your contacts.
