How to Retrieve Deleted Contacts on iPhone

iPhone users may occasionally lose their contacts on iPhone due to various kinds of reasons, like new iOS update, reset to factory default setting, iPhone broken, jailbreak, misoperation, etc. When you're unfortunate to encounter above situation or other unmentioned situations that cause your contacts to be lost, you would be at loss what to do.

Because of the special technology of iOS devices, it's very hard to retrieve data directly from the iPhone itself, but it's not impossible. So, how to retrieve deleted contacts on iPhone? Follow us and we provide you effective solutions to assist you to retrieve deleted contacts on iPhone, and it is compatible with almost all of iOS mobile system, including iOS 9/8/7/6/5 and even the recent iOS 9.2.1.

Tool You Need to Retrieve iPhone Contacts

PhoneRescue is developed to help both Android and iOS users to recover deleted data and what you need is PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery. Below are some features of PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery:

• Retrieve up to the most important 22 types of your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch data, including messages, contacts, photos, videos, call history, notes, reminders, Safari bookmarks, music, documents, app data, etc.
• It provides you three recovery modes so that you can retrieve contacts directly from iPhone, retrieve contact from iTunes backup and retrieve contacts from iCloud backup.
• To save your time and efforts, PhoneRescue allows you to selectively scan the data you need before recovery. It's a great feature.
• The unique feature of copying-and-pasting info to clipboard allows you to retrieve info with higher efficiency.

Part 1. How to Retrieve Deleted Contacts on iPhone without Backup

After downloading and installing PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery, you can now follow the steps below to retrieve deleted contacts on your iPhone, which also applies to iPad and iPod in iOS 9/8/7/6/5.

Step 1. Open PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery > Connect your iPhone to computer.

Step 2. Select Recover from iOS Device > Click on Right Arrow to scan your iPhone.

Step 3. Select Contacts > Preview and select the contacts you want to retrieve > Click on To Computer button or To iDevice button to get them back.

Part 2. How to Retrieve Deleted Contacts on iPhone with Backup

Furthermore, you can also use PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery to retrieve contacts from iCloud backup or retrieve contacts from iTunes backup if you have a backup in iCloud or iTunes, follow steps as below.

Step 1. Launch PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery and connect your iPhone to computer.

Step 2. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup" (or "Recover from iCloud").

Step 3. Choose iTunes backup you want to retrieve ( Sign in with your Apple ID and password and then choose backup files you want to download).

Step 4. Select the deleted contacts you want to recover > Click on To computer or To iDevice button to get them back.

No matter you choose to retrieve contacts from iCloud or retrieve contacts from iTunes, you can finish in an easy and reliable way. Download PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery and try it right now.

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