Phone Link not showing Contact Names....again

How did you manage to delete them? On outlook.com? It's not a list, it is a Category, and I have not found a way to delete my 12 000 contacts other than one by one, with a confirmation question in between.

I recently had a similar problem with only about 1000 contacts. I noticed in Outlook a new contact list had been created with a "sync to..." name. Wth, I deleted it things returned to less that good, but functional.

Happened again today. There are numerous threads running on this topic. There isn't enough time to go through them all to see if anyone has found a fix. Switching to another product may be the only answer.

Hi John JT, ET al,

I have done this so many times I have not counted. It works for a few time, then back to pathetic service from MS once again.

Very, very frustrating.

WalkerB

I was able to fix this on my computer by following these steps:

1. In the Phone Link app on PC, go to Settings, click the My Devices tab, and use the ellipsis (...) menu on your device to remove it, then close the app.
2. On your phone (mine is an Android), go to Settings, Apps, Link to Windows, Open, then remove your PC from the Linked Computers section.
3. Restart your phone.
4. Re-link the phone and PC by restarting the Phone Link app on your PC and following the step to add your device.
5. Perhaps this is the critical thing, but I noticed in the Link to Windows app on Android, there is a toggle to "Sync contacts" under the list of Linked Computers, which was disabled for me. Turn this on.

Contacts are showing up again for me now - yay!

I have no idea how many times I have had to go through this process. It is happening over and over on both Win 10 and Win 11. I am fairly meticulous about making sure I have current versions of the OS and apps.

I was able to fix this on my computer by following these steps:

1. In the Phone Link app on PC, go to Settings, click the My Devices tab, and use the ellipsis (...) menu on your device to remove it, then close the app.
2. On your phone (mine is an Android), go to Settings, Apps, Link to Windows, Open, then remove your PC from the Linked Computers section.
3. Restart your phone.
4. Re-link the phone and PC by restarting the Phone Link app on your PC and following the step to add your device.
5. Perhaps this is the critical thing, but I noticed in the Link to Windows app on Android, there is a toggle to "Sync contacts" under the list of Linked Computers, which was disabled for me. Turn this on.

Contacts are showing up again for me now - yay!

I have no idea how many times I have had to go through this process. It is happening over and over on both Win 10 and Win 11. I am fairly meticulous about making sure I have current versions of the OS and apps.