A phone call, the whole world. Highly developed communication network today, it is hard to imagine what can it be if you lost or deleted all contacts on your iPhone. All hell broke loose! Don't despair now, no matter you deleted one or some contacts by careless, your iPhone crashes, or it erases your saved contacts and phone settings due to formatting or restore factory setting. You can easily to get them back through iTunes or iCloud, but, you must have a backup available. If not, so, how can you do to recover your lost or deleted iPhone contacts?
iPhone Contacts Recovery is the world’s 1st iPhone data recovery software for personal users. The program is widely apply to iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4 and other iPhone, and allows you to scan and recover your deleted or lost contacts, SMS, photo, call history and more from iPhone directly, or restore them from iTunes backups even if your iPhone was stolen or broken. Next, you can free download the trial version below and try to recover your contacts according to our tutorial.
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3 Ways to Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from iPhone
| Way 1: Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from iPhone Directly Way 2: Recover Deleted or Lost iPhone Contacts from iTunes Way 3: Recover Deleted or Lost iPhone Contacts from iCloud |
Way 1: Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from iPhone Directly
Step 1: Connect Your iPhone to PC and Choose the Recovery Mode
Launch the iPhone Contacts Recovery and connect your cell phone to computer via a USB cable after correctly install it on your PC, then choose the recovery mode of “Recover from iOS Device” as the picture below.
Step 2: Start to Scan your iPhone
If your are an iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S user, you just need to click “Start Scan” button and begin to scan your iPhone. While you are an iPhone 4/3GS user, you should download a plug-in for your iPhone before scanning. Click "Download" to save them on your computer and follow the steps as the below picture.
Step 3: Preview and Get Them Back Selectively
After a few minutes scanning, the scanning result of you iPhone will display on the window, click “Contacts” category on the left of window, then you can preview all the detail show to you, pitch on some or the all as you want and click “Recover” to save them to you computer.
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Tips: Both the deleted and existing contacts displayed in the scanning result still on your device and have their own color. If you want to separate them, you can use the button: Only display the deleted items.
Way 2: Recover Deleted or Lost iPhone Contacts from iTunes
Step 1: Choose the Recovery Mode and Backup Files
Install and run iPhone Contacts Recovery on your computer. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup", then all the previous backup files sync with iTunes on this computer will automatically list in front of you, choose the lastest one and click “Start Scan” button.
Step 2: Preview and Selectively Recovery
Wait a minutes, all data in the backup file will be extracted and displayed in categories. You can preview them one by one before recovery. Pitch on what you want and click “Recover” to save them on your computer.
Tips: Both the deleted and existing contacts displayed in the scanning result still on your device and have their own color. If you want to separate them, you can use the button on the top: Only display the deleted items.
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Way 3: Recover Deleted or Lost iPhone Contacts from iCloud
If you have an iCloud backup and under WiFi network, or the two ways above are dead ends for you, you can choose recover deleted or lost contacts from iCloud for your iPhone. At first, you should set your iPhone as a new device. Then you will be prompted by Setup Assistant by a new iPhone to set up as a new phone or restore from backup. Then follow the steps below one by one.
Step 1: Make sure that your iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi and electric quantity sufficient.
Step 2: Select the option of “Restore From iCloud Backup”.
Step 3: Enter the correctly account and password to sign in iCloud.
Step 4: Choose the latest backup and restore it to your iPhone.
Step 5: Input any passwords required during the process.
Step 6: You can check the previous contacts on your iPhone once the restore is complete.
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