It seems that Apple is having some problems with MobileMe and getting some pretty shitty reviews.  I’m still impressed with the service so far despite the problem I found earlier today.

I went to go make a phone call and all my contact’s names appeared in the list but no details (phone numbers, addresses, etc) were anywhere to be found.  All my contacts were still intact in Outlook, Blackberry and also www.me.com but just not my iPhone.

Tried syncing it with the MobileMe application on my PC and within the iPhone but no luck.  After my initial D.I.Y stuff, I had to turn to google with this search, “mobileme contacts empty iphone”.

Four entries down was this link to theiPhoneblog.com with some good insight into the problems MobileMe is facing.  It also gave a link to Apple’s site that gives the solution.

The Solution:

  1. Go to this page, http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1672
  2. Go to step 10

Recap: Delete your MobileMe account within your iPhone (Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar).  Then add your MobileMe account back to the iPhone.  It will sync itself again and all your contacts should be there.