iPhone Contacts Disappeared: 5 Easy Ways to Restore Deleted iPhone Contacts
You might think the contact app is a great innovation. It helps you to manage all phone numbers of your friends, families, colleagues and others so that you don’t need to remember them one by one. It does play an important role in our daily life. You can make a phone call, send messages, receive email, and more between the contacts without remembering the exact phone numbers. It is quite convenient for contact app users.
But,
You might be familiar with the following description:
“I lost contacts on iPhone! I don’t know why my iPhone contacts missing. I can’t remain my contacts on iPhone! I just want to restore contacts on iPhone. Is there any way to find contacts?”
In fact,
Most iPhone users have encountered this situation:
Lost their contacts on iPhone for unknown reasons. They always ask why did their contacts disappear. And how to restore contacts on iPhone?
Below are the ultimate answers for you.
Before restoring iPhone contacts from backup files, please make sure that you have backed up iPhone data previously. Or else you can go ahead with the method without backups.
- DifficultyElapsed Time
- Method 1: Recover contacts on your iPhone Settings app
05min
- Method 2: Restore Contacts from iCloud
23min
- Method 3: Find Contacts via iTunes
40min
- Method 4: Recover Deleted Phone Numbers from Google Account
15min
- Method 5: Retrieve Contacts from SIM card
12min
- Method 6: Recover Contacts from iPhone with FoneLab iPhone Data Recovery
04min
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1Recover Contacts on Your iPhone Settings App
Settings app is a fast and easy choice to restore contacts from iCloud backup. You can just finish the procedure in a few steps. All you need is your iPhone and log in the iCloud account which you have backed up before on.
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However,
Because you are used to backup iPhone contacts with iTunes and iCloud two Apply ways, they might be the top 2 options which you will choose to restore deleted contacts from iCloud or iTunes.
So you are wondering:
How to recover deleted phone numbers from iCloud or iTunes?
Let’s dive right in…
2Restore Contacts from iCloud
iCloud is a cloud service which allows iPhone user to store their photos, files, contacts, bookmarks and more. Each user has 5 GB of iCloud storage. You can turn on the auto-sync button, then your data will be backed up to your iCloud account automatically. It also enables you to sync your iPhone, iPad or iPod device data at once through Settings > iCloud > Turn on iCloud Backup > Back Up Now. So you can choose the most convenient way according to your needs.
If syncing data with iCloud is one of your customs, here is a relative method to log in your iCloud account and recover deleted phone numbers.
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Option 1Recover iPhone Contacts Only from iCloud backup
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Option 2Recover All Your iPhone Data from iCloud backup
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But,
If you think the cloud service is not safe and don’t like iCloud, you must be a fan of iTunes rather than iTunes.
3Find Contacts via iTunes
iTunes is an Apple tool which helps you to save your data on your own computer. So you just open iTunes on your computer, plug your iPhone into the computer, Go to File > Devices > Restore from Backup. As well as manage your data as you like.
What should you do?
Option 1Recover All Your iPhone Data from iTunes backup
There is a tutorial on how to recover deleted contacts on iPhone. Then you can learn an easy way to get them back.
But firstly,
You need a computer with your iTunes backup files which contains your lost contacts and your iPhone.
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Option 2Recover Your iPhone Data from iTunes backup Selectively
But keep this in mind:
Your iPhone data will be overwritten by backup data after this iTunes recovering and the second method with iCloud. If you don’t want to cause data loss, you can use FoneLab iPhone Data Recovery to extract data from iCloud selectively.
Use This 5-Step Process to Get Your iPhone Contacts back from Backup Files.
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Kindly note:
Your contacts will be saved as CSV, HTML and VCF format on your computer.
What are they?
CSV
CSV is a simple file format used to store tabular data, such as a spreadsheet or database. Files in the CSV format can be imported to and exported from programs that store data in tables, such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. CSV stands for "comma-separated values”.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphics, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. HTML is used to create electronic documents (called pages) that are displayed on the World Wide Web.
VCF
VCF is an acronym for Virtual Contact File. VCF files, also commonly referred to as vCards, are the standard file format that is used to store contact information for individuals and businesses in a digital file format. The VCF file format also allows for the support of images and other media content.
Click to Tweet This Post Now4Recover Deleted Phone Numbers from Google Account
Certainly,
You must know Google. A single username and password get you into everything Google, including Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, Google Maps and more. It is a simple tool to save and restore your iPhone contacts.
Do you have a google account?
If you do, it will be a good news that you can restore iPhone contacts from your google account. How?
Here are what you want to know:
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5How to Retrieve Contacts from SIM card
If you were an Android phone user and began to change your mobile device to iPhone, the first thing you might be considered is how to transfer your data from Android to iPhone. The most important item is your contacts. Some Android users are used to save their contact numbers on SIM card, so that they don’t need to move these phone number time by time.
Because you are using iPhone, which is different Android phone now, everything changes…
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Do you think it is not necessary to be nervous about losing iPhone contacts after above-mentioned 6 ways? We have so many simple ways to recover them.
There was only one problem:
How can you recover lost iPhone contacts without backup?
6Recover Contacts from iPhone with FoneLab iPhone Data Recovery
iPhone users might be overwhelmed by what they face up when they lose their contacts without any backup file. In their opinions, it is impossible to get these contacts back as they even have no idea about why they lose them.
Just calm down.
Actually, your deleted contacts are still stored on your iPhone storage but unvisitable for user. An iPhone Contact Recovery enables you to recover lost contact with the device directly.
First of all,
You need to stop using your iPhone. Or the old data will be overwritten by the new one.
Then,
What you need are:
A computer, a USB cable and the iPhone which might contain your lost contacts.
iPhone Data Recovery
FoneLab - iPhone Data Recovery - recover the lost/deleted iPhone data including photos from your iCloud or iTunes backup or device.
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You can also learn more about how to recover contacts after factory reset iPhone.
The last question?
Where are my contacts stored on the computer?
Just go to the three-line button > Preferences, then you can check the Output and Backup folder from the pop-up window.
Why do people like FoneLab?
- It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod.
- iOS 12 and iTunes 12.9 are fully supported.
- It allows you to recover data from device and backup files.
- Preview items before restoring are available.
- Photo, contact, video, bookmark, file, music, message, note, call history, calendar, etc. are recoverable.
- Fix the disabled system problems with the device.
FoneLab iPhone Data Recovery also can be used to back up your iPhone data. It is easy to use. Just connect your iPhone, go to iOS Data Backup & Restore, choose the backup way and confirm. It allows you to choose which data selectively and decide whether you encrypt your backup or not. Why not have a try now!
