Some iPhone users have reported that their iPhone lost contacts, and many business and work contacts disappeared after updating iOS or Mac syncing. The result is that all text messages are just numbers rather than contacts, and they can't find anyone to call and text. Even though they tried to recover iCloud contacts, they were unsuccessful. Is there any way to restore or recover the lost iPhone contacts?
In order to find a way to recover or recover lost iPhone contacts, you need to know where the lost iPhone contacts come from? There are mainly three sources of iPhone contacts, contacts created locally on iPhone, contacts synced by iCloud, and added mail contacts. This article will provide some solutions to recover contacts for different contact sources.
1. Check iCloud Contacts
When you set up iCloud for Contacts on your iPhone, your contacts are stored in the cloud instead of locally on your device. You can see them on any device that’s set up for iCloud and Contacts, including your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Windows computer. There may be two reasons why iCloud contacts are lost on iPhone, someone deletes iCloud contacts from other devices or web browsers, and someone turns off iCloud contacts on iPhone. Check your iCloud contact and turn on iCloud contacts will help you to solve it. Go to iPhone Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> Turn on Contacts for iCloud.
And then open Phone application -> Contacts -> List -> select All iCloud and untitled group.
2. Turn on Email Contacts
If your lost iPhone contacts come from added email Contacts, such as gmail account and other exchange accounts, please check the state of email account and turn on Email Contacts. Go to iPhone Settings -> Contacts -> Accounts -> choose your email account -> turn on Contacts tab.
3. Restore contacts from backup
If you have an old iCloud or iPhone local backup before the deletion, you can restore iPhone data including contacts from the backup. In order to restore the iPhone Backup, you need to erase all iPhone content and settings, and then chose to restore from iCloud backup or restore from Mac or PC in the iPhone Setup step.
If you don’t want to erase current iPhone data, you can use 3rd-party application- Fone Rescue to read and extract iPhone contacts from the backup without delete any current iPhone data. Download and install Fone Rescue on your computer.
Run Fone Rescue application, and then select “Recover From iTunes Backup” or “Recover From iCloud Backup” tab, select an old backup and click the Start Scan button.
After scanning, access Contacts & Messages & Call Log -> Contacts tab, it will list all iPhone contact in the backup, select them and click the Export or Recover button to save.
4. Recover contacts from iPhone device
If you don’t have any backup to restore, have a try to recover contacts from the iPhone device directly, Fone Rescue application can recover deleted or lost iPhone contacts from the iPhone contact database. Download and install Fone Rescue on your computer, and connect your iPhone with the computer via USB cable. Run Fone Rescue application, and then select “Recover From iOS Device” tab, click the Start Scan button.
Wait for a while to finish scanning, then access Contacts & Messages & Call Log -> Contacts tab, it will recover all iPhone contact in the iPhone database, select them and click the Export or Recover button to save.
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