I accidentally lost all my contacts on my iPhone after I updated my iPhone to iOS 10, but I forgot to back up my iPhone to iTunes. It’s too late to regret for me after that. What should I do to recover my lost contacts without iTunes backups?
Many iPhone users have similar experience that they lost their data without backup. And there are many causes for iPhone data loss. Such as accidental deletion, iOS update, factory reset or iPhone issues. These problems are not necessarily lead to permanent data loss. Even if you have no backup, you still have great chance to recover your lost data.
How can I recover lost contacts from iPhone without iTunes backups? If you have no backups on iPhone or iCloud, I’m afraid that data recovery software is the last way that help you to retrieve your data. H Data iPhone recovery software is a professional iPhone data recovery program that restore lost data whatever the reasons. With this program, you even can recover your deleted data without iPhone from the backups. If you have no backups, this software allows you to recover directly from your iPhone. During recovery, H Data iPhone recovery software allows you to preview and recover selected contents. In details, it displays the contact number and their emails. Also it can recover the text messages, notes, safari history, photos and data on other apps.
Steps to recover deleted contacts from iPhone
You can follow this guide to know how to recover your deleted contacts without backup.
Step 1. Download and Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer
Step 2. Connect iPhone with computer and make sure that the software has connected with your iPhone.
Step 3. Click “SCAN” on the software to scan your iPhone. It will scan all your existing and deleted data on iPhone. This process will take a long time. So you should wait with patience.
Step 4. Check the scanning results, you can find all the data on your iPhone. The deleted data showed here in red. The software allows you to hide the existed data.
Step 5. Click Contacts to preview all the contacts. You are able to see the contacts with their contact number and emails. The Demo version only allow you to preview part of the information. If you want to preview full information, you can should use a registration code to activate the Full version.
Step 6. Click “Export Selected Records” or “Export All Records”. Choose a location to store the recovered data.
Finally, you can find a recovery folder on the location you choose. Open the html page, you will find all the contacts in the table with their numbers and emails. Then you can add your lost contacts to your iPhone by manual.
Recovering with data recovery software is very easy and useful. But not every time you will be so lucky to recover your data. If the deleted data on your iPhone have been overwritten, you can never recover them. Therefore, that is why we must form a good habit of backing up regularly.