Did anyone lose all outlook contacts??

[RobbieRobski]

So within the last half hour I seem to have lost all of my contacts from outlook.
When I look at text messages suddenly all I see are just phone numbers from people that have texted earlier but no name associated to text message even though earlier, there was. When I inspect further I see that I have contacts for Skype in Gmail but none for outlook.

Has this happened to anybody else?

When I view the people app on windows 10 pc, I do see the contacts in question.

Alcatel idol 4s
Build 10.0.15063.540

 

[Ravimn Olsign]

Re: DId anyone lose all outlook contacts??

So within the last half hour I seem to have lost all of my contacts from outlook.
When I look at text messages suddenly all I see are just phone numbers from people that have texted earlier but no name associated to text message even though earlier, there was. When I inspect further I see that I have contacts for Skype in Gmail but none for outlook.

Has this happened to anybody else?

When I view the people app on windows 10 pc, I do see the contacts in question.

Alcatel idol 4s
Build 10.0.15063.540

Happened to me this morning. What the hell is happening?

 

[RobbieRobski]

Re: DId anyone lose all outlook contacts??

I rebooted my phone, all my contacts are restored. Try the same let me know. Hope that's it. Certainly a ****ty thing to happen. Clearly something wrong on Microsofts end since my gmail contacts were unaffected.

Oh btw, even though I got my contacts back, I lost the custom text tones that I had configured ????????????

 

[cmattau90]

All my contacts imported from LinkedIn automatically went away, but I had them filtered so I didn't see them in my phone or in Outlook anyway.

 

[Dani-L]

Same here. Rebooting doesn't restore them for me. Lumia 650 (release preview)

 

[Keith White Jr]

Happened to me as well, but they are back now

 

[anthonyng]

My contacts missing, Lumia 650 release preview

 

[unmorphed]

That's been happening to me all year. After updates, after restarts, and randomly.

That's why after years of blind loyalty, I got Samsung S8.

Bottom line is, the platform is unsupported garbage now. I can't imagine why anyone would still be using Windows Phone.

With that said, when Surface phone, or whatever the next attempt is called, comes out I'll be the first to have it.

 

[SteveSAPA]

I just got an s8. Really beautiful phone. Only issue is I cannot get my exchange email contacts in the contacts app. They are in the Outlook app. Any idea how this can be done?

 

[unmorphed]

I'm sure there's a better way, but you could use the stock Samsung Mail app.
Add your account, but select not to sync it of you're using Outlook.

 

[anthonyng]

My contacts came back, I didn't die.

 

[Rinsun]

Today I found that the People live tile is dead and and does not show contact photos. Also names of some of my contacts are missing certain parts of the name in the list but when I tap on the contact name it is there correctly when that particular contact page opens.
It wasn't like this yesterday.
Edit - the live tile is working showing contact pictures again but the in- app problem of names in the list remains

 

[Auggybendoggy]

10/28/17 - today this happened to my Lumia 1520, W10 mobile. Seems it ends up coming back so I'll be patient, but what a pain.

 

[Auggybendoggy]

3 hours later and they're back. Anyone know why this happens?

 

[boky69]

Yesterday my contacts over microsoft account missing. In people hub add same outlook account,and contacts is back. But,contacts from main microsoft account not work.

 

[SeanContra]

Did anyone lose all outlook contacts??

Yes.
Reset my phone to factory settings and everything was fine last night.
Today, the problem is back.

Also, there's another thread here on the same thing so I guess a truckload of people are having trouble with this.

 

[SRRAE]

Same here. Contacts is empty and my texts are showing mobile numbers not the contact name. I've restored to factory defaults 3 times now and each time it only lasts a few hours before happening again.

When I view my contacts settings it says requires attention but clicking on it does nothing.