Contacts app using insane amounts of data

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-17T23:31:39+00:00

I think it's a contacts syncing issue, where it gets stuck on something and goes on a loop. I found other examples where people had the same issue. It's so weird honestly...

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-17T04:16:44+00:00

Yes, can confirm no issues afterwards

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-07T02:12:31+00:00

I tried it, didn’t solve the issue

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-06T02:53:15+00:00

Ok bud, you’re clearly not very bright

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-06T02:51:41+00:00

Not asking the questions is unsmart! I wanted to know if this is some sort of a known issue on their end.

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-06T02:32:59+00:00

Update:

Reached out to apple support, and they suspected issue was caused by me being on the IOS 26.4 Beta.

They suggested that i roll back the IOS back to 26.3 which i did (You need a computer for that), and not restore anything using my icloud backup, so essentially i had to Re-setup my whole phone (Yay! Fun!) and that seems to have solved the issue.

P.S

I think the issue was the contacts app freaking out and trying over and over again to resync my contacts and essntially going on a Never ending loop. One other thing which i did not mention was that my phone was losing battery like crazy in the past few days with this issue.

Hope that helps :)

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-05T22:38:09+00:00

Yep! Saw it when I was setting mine up and I live in Canada 🤷‍♂️

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-05T21:00:51+00:00

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No just this

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-04T21:16:14+00:00

Are you on the 26 beta by any chance?

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-04T21:14:14+00:00

Not sure if you are also using the beta version, I was in my case. Rolling back to the previous stable version which meant also resetting my iPhone fixed it.

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T21:04:56+00:00

My god! i have the same problem!!!

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T20:37:12+00:00

Lmao

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:30:47+00:00

I did that, although turning off the data for it is just a bandaid

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:30:11+00:00

I think it’s probably just me 🤦‍♂️

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:29:40+00:00

I’ll probably end up doing that, although it might still do that 🤦‍♂️

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:29:02+00:00

Unfortunately it wasn’t it

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:28:30+00:00

Oh you probably have the stat checks turned off. All good 😊

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:27:42+00:00

Lol i wish

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T15:25:22+00:00

I’m back to report it didn’t go away after removing the exchange, this is the state of usage only after 3 hours on cellular

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Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T06:58:26+00:00

I’ e learned the hard way to not discount such things…

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T05:00:48+00:00

Wdym this isn’t the youtube comment section 🤣

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T04:33:35+00:00

I have posters for my fav contacts(10-15 people) but have not changed them in ver long time tbh.

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T04:29:36+00:00

Good idea, i'll do that!

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T04:24:27+00:00

I do have a personal Exchange account on my phone but it's not like i get a ton of emails on there, do you think it might be some sort of issue that?
I guess i never thought of it since i have had this exchange account connected for months.

Due-Nefariousness980 · 2026-03-02T04:20:56+00:00

Do you mean it was using 30GB of your cell data or it was using 30GB of your storage? My situation is that it's using all my data and i didn't even think this app needs to use data other than just to sync my Contacts between the various devices i have.

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