From time to time, users are faced with the problem of accidentally or mistakenly deleting one or several contacts at once from the address book on the iPhone. The developers at Apple took care of this problem and provided several ways to solve it at once. Next, we will look at all recovery methods. remote contacts.
First of all, if you accidentally delete a contact, you must urgently disconnect your smartphone from the world wide web or Mac computer. This is done so that iOS does not have time to synchronize the deletion with the address book in iCloud.
Restoring contacts from an iTunes backup
This method is suitable for those users who regularly use iTunes on your computer and synchronize all the data. In this case, you can restore contacts from a backup that is created in iTunes. For this you need:
1. Launch iTunes on your computer.
2. Connect your iPhone via cable or wireless network.
3. Select a smartphone in the Devices tab.
4. Go to the Overview tab.
5. Click the Restore from backup button.
Important! Turn off Find My iPhone before restoring.
6. Select the desired backup.
7. Confirm the action and wait for the end of the process.
Remember that after restoring in this way, all your actions taken since the backup was created will be canceled.
Restore from the Contacts app for OS X or Windows
The Contacts app for OS X and Windows platforms supports importing your address book to iCloud cloud storage. After that, if desired, the user can import the contacts saved in the cloud back to the iPhone.
Restoring from the Contacts app on Windows:
1. Go to the folder System Drive\Users\Username\Contacts\
2. Select the contact you wish to restore.
3. Click the Export button and select the format Business cards.
5. Send saved file to iPhone via email.
6. On your smartphone, open the letter and press the Create new contact button.
After that, the contact will be restored. In the same way, you can restore contacts from the Contacts app on OS X.
Export contacts from iCloud
To export contacts from iCloud, you need:
1. On a computer, go to the site.
2. Log in to the site using your Apple ID.
3. Go to the Contacts section.
4. Select the desired contact and click the Show action menu button.
5. In the menu that opens, click Export vCard.
After that, the exported contact will appear on your computer in the downloads folder. It must be sent to e-mail on the iPhone.
Resync with iCloud
You can also just re-sync with iCloud. For this you need:
1. Turn off Wi-Fi immediately after accidentally deleting a contact.
2. Go to Settings - iCloud.
3. Move the switch opposite the Contacts item to the inactive position.
4. In the menu that opens, select Leave on iPhone (this will allow you to leave contacts on your smartphone).
5. Connect iPhone to the network.
6. Move the switch opposite the Contacts item to the active position.
7. In the menu that opens, select Merge.
8. After a few minutes check the address book, the missing contact should be returned.
Restoring contacts with iBackupBot
iBackupBot is handy application to work with backups in iTunes. The program allows you to restore contacts without restoring the entire iPhone, which is very convenient in most situations.
1. and install iBackupBot (a trial version of the application is enough to restore contacts).
2. Run the program and wait until it recognizes the backups in iTunes.
3. In the Backups window, select the required backup.
4. Create a duplicate backup in a convenient location by clicking File-Duplicate.
5. In the application, in the main window, click on Contacts.
6. The main window will open full list contacts, where you can view all their details.
7. Highlight desired file and click Export - Export as vCard file.
8. If you are using the trial version, the program will ask you to register, but you can simply close the window that appears.
10. The resulting file can be uploaded to the Contacts application and restored from there to the iPhone.
Restoring with iPhone Backup Extractor
The main difference this application from the previous one is the limitation of its trial version. The program is quite convenient, but it allows you to restore only the first 4 contacts for free. For further work, the full version is required.
1. and install iPhone Backup Extractor.
2. Open the application. The program will automatically download the latest backup from iTunes.
3. You can select another backup by clicking Select another backup.
4. In the main window, click on Extract (the number of contacts) opposite the Contacts item.
5. Specify a convenient folder where the application will extract all contacts in one file and separately in vcf format.
6. In the Extract item, you can specify the format in which contacts will be extracted.
Some users after updating to iOS 8 noticed the disappearance of contacts in the address book. The problem is not epidemic in nature, however, there are several threads on the Apple support site dedicated to this topic.
The data recovery method involves synchronizing existing data on your iPhone contacts with those stored in iCloud. This does not always guarantee the appearance of lost contacts, however, as a rule, it leads to the desired result.
How to recover contacts from iCloud:
Step 1: Check if you have registered your device in iCloud. To do this, go to Settings > iCloud. If you are already registered, the login and password will appear in the corresponding lines. Otherwise, please login. If everything is OK with this step, then move on.
Step 2: While in the same "Settings" section, make sure that the "Contacts" switch is activated. If the verification is successful, go to step three.
Step 3: Turn the "Contacts" switch to the off position. You will be asked about what you want to do with iCloud synced contacts on iPhone. Select "Delete from iPhone" from the dropdown list. Don't worry: contacts cloud service will remain.
Step 4: Reactivate the Contacts switch.
This technique will fully restore contacts on the iPhone. The instruction has been tested on devices with iOS 8.0 and iOS 8.0.2. In the event that the steps above did not lead to the desired result, go to iCloud.com and enter your Apple ID. Check if there are saved contacts in the cloud. Obviously, if iCloud is empty, you should not hope for the appearance of contacts on the iPhone.
Export contacts from iCloud
Premise:
- 1. Go to http://icloud.com/ and sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID on a browser on any computer.
- 2. Tap Contacts after signing in to iCloud.
- 3. Select the desired numbers and restore to the designated location. Attention: contacts in the format
Recover Contacts from iCloud on iPhone
Premise:
- 1. On an iPhone, select "Settings" > "General" > "Software Update" to make the system version more recent.
- 2. If you have a recent backup to restore your iPhone, select Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage > Device in section "Backups" to view the size of the backup and the date it was created.
- 3.Settings > General > Reset > Erase Content in iCloud
- 4. After pressing "Erase Content in iCloud", on the screen select Apps & Data > Restore > iCloud Backup and sign in to iCloud.
- 5. Select one iCloud backup file.
Flaw:
- 1. You must create a backup in advance.
- 2. After recovery, it may be generating a lot of extra files that were old and unnecessary.
- 3. All saved data in the device will be formatted before recovery.
Sometimes iOS users are faced with the need to restore their contact list from iCloud to iPhone or iPad. In most cases, this is due to the acquisition of a new smartphone (tablet) or. In addition, sometimes you can accidentally turn off contact syncing in the iCloud section of your device.
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Below are a few simple steps needed to restore contacts to iPhone or iPad from cloud storage Apple.
For a complete understanding of the process of storing and syncing contacts in iOS on iPhone and iPad, please check out this article:
If you have used the “ Contacts in Gmail“, be sure to read .
How to Delete Contacts from iPhone or iPad Properly
When you delete a contact from your iPhone or iPad while syncing with iCloud is enabled, it is automatically deleted from the cloud as well. Therefore, in no case do not delete contacts yourself (one by one) in the application Telephone. It is necessary to delete contacts from the device, but at the same time that they remain in iCloud. To do this, go to Apple section ID (the topmost in Settings) and at the very bottom click on the “ Log off“.
From the options provided, select " Sign out of iCloud and Store" or " Sign out of iCloud“.
When asked by the system about what to do with the contacts on the device, answer “ Delete“, this will remove contacts from your iPhone or iPad, but leave them in iCloud.
1 . Check your contacts in iCloud by visiting icloud.com from your computer (entry required).
The list of available contacts will be located in the section Contacts. If desired, in the same place, add new contacts (the “+” button in the lower left corner). All of them will appear on the iOS device after synchronization is set up.
2 . Open the application " Settings» on iPhone or iPad. Select the Apple ID section (at the very top), go to the iCloud section and log in with help from Apple ID.
Note. If you have already been authorized and the switch " Contacts» is activated, but contacts are not displayed in the application Telephone, deactivate it. After that, a message will appear in which the user will be asked whether to save contacts on the iPhone (iPad) or delete them. Select " Delete from my iPhone". If the switch " Contacts» is already deactivated, follow the next step.
3 . Activate the switch " Contacts". A pop-up message will appear. Choose an option Merge contacts to have contacts on your device merged with contacts in iCloud, or Delete from iPhone (iPad) to remove them from the device.
How to Recover Deleted iCloud Contacts on iPhone or iPad
If contacts have been deleted from iCloud, then Apple allows you to restore them within 30 days. To recover deleted contacts, use .
Quite often, a harmless miss on the sensor causes a lot of problems. Most often this happens when erasing subscriber numbers on an iPhone, which are simply problematic to restore. Therefore, the question quite rightly arises of how to recover deleted contacts on iPhone. Let's try to figure it out.
Restoring contacts from an iTunes backup
Do you often sync your iPhone with tuna? Do not be lazy to create backups every time. This will ensure that the data can be returned. Even by accidentally deleting one or two important numbers, they can be restored from a copy to the phone book.
It is worth mentioning that with using iTunes we do data rollback, i.e. not only contacts will have the latest version Reserve copy, but also all other information, so all data that appeared after the last copy was created will be erased, so use the "Restore from backup" function wisely.
So, let's say there is already a ready-made copy for the iPhone device. Consider how you can recover addresses:
- connect the iPhone to the PC via a usb cable and launch iTunes;
- in the menu bar, go to the "File" tab and select our iPhone. Then in the window click on the "Overview" tab;
- information about the iPhone will be pulled up. Click the "Restore from a copy" button;
Attention! If you have activated the Find My iPhone search function, then before performing the operation, you need to disable it.
- from the list that appears, usually, the most recent save is selected (there may be several). Select the desired version and click "Restore";
- waiting for the completion of the operation.
Export contact from Microsoft Outlook, Windows, MAC OS
This method will be useful only if the desired contact is saved in one of the mail programs. Consider it on the example of the utility Contacts from Windows. With this program, we will be able to export the contact cards saved in the PC memory to a location convenient for us and with a suitable .vcf extension, which can then be successfully recognized by the iPhone. To download data from Windows memory, need:
- enter the folder "Users";
- open a subfolder inside with the name of your account;
- go to Contacts;
- select the file where the saved contact to be restored is located;
- Click "Export" on the top bar. A window will open in which you need to click on the bottom line "Business cards" and confirm the choice by clicking on the "Export" button;
- in the browser window that opens, select the desired folder. Next, click "OK".
Thus, the numbers from the copy of the address book will be extracted and displayed in the specified folder (.vcf extension)
- send them via mail client to the e-mail address of the iPhone;
- open the file received in the letter and click on "New Contact";
- The numbers will be automatically loaded into your iPhone phone book.
For operating system MAC OS X and MS Service Outlook export addresses are identical.
How to recover a deleted contact using iCloud
Again, the method is relevant only if you have activated the backup function in iCloud.
If the Apple account auto-sync mode with iCloud is active on the iPhone, data is automatically discarded every time you connect to the Internet. Therefore, after deleting information about the subscriber, you must immediately turn off the Wi-Fi network. Otherwise, subsequent synchronization will delete the contact from the cloud and it will be impossible to restore it from the server in the future.
Let's first look at the method to restore all contacts from iCloud. After turning off Wi-Fi, do the following:
- go to iCloud settings and switch the “Contacts” lever to “Disabled” mode;
- the system will specify what to do with the contacts. We make the choice "Leave on iPhone";
- after that you need to connect to WiFi networks and switch the slider to the "On" position;
- iOS will give you a warning that your contacts will be merged with iCloud. Click "Combine".
As you can see, everything is simple. If for some reason, from a friend's Apple ID, for example, you need specific contact, then the procedure would be:
- on the iCloud website (a), log in with your Apple ID;
- click on the "Contacts" icon;
- select the desired entry and click on the icon located in the lower left corner;
- an action menu will open in front of you, in which you need to select "Export vCard ..."
Subscriber information will be saved on the computer in a file with the .vcf extension. Next, we perform the same operations as in the previous paragraph, namely, we send the file by mail, open it in the iPhone and re-record it.
Using special utilities
Option 1. iBackupBot
- you can even download a trial version on a PC;
- we start the application. It will recognize all saved copies of iTunes, but it will take a little time;
- in the main window of iBackupBot (a), under the description of the iPhone, there will be a section “What’s in backup”. Before performing any action, play it safe and duplicate the backup. To do this, select the desired backup in the "backups" window, enter the "file" and click "Duplicate". Next, we set the place where we want to save the duplicate;
- then, returning and selecting the backup again in the “backups” window, look down the window and find the blue inscription “Contacts”;
- by clicking on this link, the program will display the contacts that are included in it. By clicking on each of them, more detailed information about the record;
- in the main window, immediately below the "Contacts" tab, there will be an "Export" button. By clicking on the arrow, a small list of actions will drop out, in which several options will be offered.
- to restore, select "Export as vCard file";
- A window will pop up asking you to activate the program. Click "Cancel";
- set the copy path;
- You can transfer contacts and several pieces. Click on "Export as multiple vCard file";
- how to send a vcf file with contacts to the iPhone, we indicated in the previous paragraphs.
Option 2. iPhone Backup Extractor
- we start the application. You will be prompted to select a backup from a list. If it hangs in another place, then in the drop-down list, click on "Select another backup folder";
- we are looking for the third block "Available data". Near the line "Contacts" the number of numbers is indicated. Click on the inscription "Extract ..." and set the path where we want to unpack them (they will be transferred to a common file);
You can see how it works in the video below.