Lost contacts on iPhone is a quite common thing for all users. What can we do in case we accidentally delete our important contacts from iPhone? In that case, recovering your data as soon as you can will help you reduce data loss.
All of us have already been accustomed to store contacts instead of notebook. But the problem is that if we change a new phone, we have to move all the contacts. If you lost the iPhone but have no backup, you will lost all the contacts. If you factory reset your iPhone or have a failed iOS up-gradation, you also will lost your contacts. If you lost the contact information of a special contact and cannot get from others, it could be a big trouble for you. Generally, you can restore from iPhone backup if there have. There are several ways for you to retrieve your contacts.
Restore contacts from iCloud backup
As an iPhone user, iCloud won’t be unfamiliar for you. iCloud is an important data backup application in iPhone which can automatically back up your data on iPhone. Whenever you lost your data, you can restore from iCloud.
Search on Google for iCloud official website, sign in and click Contacts, then you can see all your contacts here. You can click to see the phone numbers. You can click to restore them to your iPhone.
Restore your iPhone 6 contactswith data recovery software
If you have iTunes backup, you still need to use an iPhone recovery software to extract your contacts. If you choose to restore from your backup directly in iTunes, you may lost some of your data on iPhone. Because restore from iTunes will restore your iPhone to a restore point when you back up your iPhone. Therefore, you’d better use a data recovery program to extract data from iTunes backup or iPhone.
While if you have iTunes backup but the backup is not the latest that include your contacts, you need to run the software to scan the entire iPhone to get the contacts you lost.
Download and install H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer.
Select “Scan iPhone for deleted files”, the software will detect your iPhone automatically. You can see it is connected or disconnected on the software. If not, you can re-plug your iPhone or change the USB cable.
After you see the green button “Begin Recovery From iPhone”, you can click it to scan your entire iPhone. As the scanning will last for a long time, you should not disconnect the connection and please make sure your computer have enough power supply.
Wait for the scanning ends. You can see the progress bar on the software.
After scan, click to preview the contacts. Click Contacts on the left side. All the existing and deleted contacts will display on the right side. Click each contacts to check the phone number and email. If you have more than one contacts need to restore, you can check them and then click “Export Selected Records” to export them to the computer.
In the same way, you can use this way to restore your messages, photos, or other data. However, we still suggest you to remember to back up your data as data overwritten occurs at any time. Not every time the data recovery software can retrieve your data unless they have not been replaced.