How to Get Lost Contacts Back on iPhone?
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20 September 2017 Jennifer Thatcher Technology Manager of Test Dept.
Summary
Lost contacts on iPhone? Now you can get them back selectively from iTunes backup or iPhone directly with Renee iPhone Recovery! Try the free version now!
Recording essential information like phone number, email address, address. etc of our friends and family, contacts plays an important role in our daily life as well as mobile phone. Especially if you constantly make phone calls, send email or text friends and family, you would prefer to sort the long list into different groups which can helps you manage them easier.
In iPhone, users can make phone calls with the help of Siri easily. In fact, it is so convenience that few of us will remember the numbers or email address one by one. But it could be a disaster once we lost one or even all important contacts delete from iPhone. It could happen when we sync the contacts, restore from backup or sometimes we may delete the contacts accidentally. Here we will go through 2 useful iPhone contacts recovery methods:
How to Recover Contacts from iTunes Backup
In fact, it is convenient and safe to backup the contacts with iTunes. Once we delete the contacts, we can restore the backup files and get back the contacts. As we all know, restore the iTunes backup files will erase all the data in iPhone. If you do not want that, you can restore the iTunes backup files with Renee iPhone Recovery which enables you to select any contacts you want. If you have not make the back with iTunes before hand, you can try to recover contacts from iPhone directly.
Preparation: Download and install Renee iPhone Recovery.
Step 1: Launch Renee iPhone Recovery, connect your device to computer and click “Recover Lost Data”.
If you have connect more than one iOS devices to computer, please select the target one.
Step 2: Please select “Recover from iTunes Backup File ”. Choose the backup files you want to scan. And click “Start Scan” button.
Step 3: After scan finish, select the target contacts after checking the item “Show existing files”. Then please click “Recover”.
Step 1: Launch Renee iPhone Recovery, connect your device to computer and click “Recover Lost Data”.
If you have connect more than one iOS devices to computer, please select the target one.
Step 2: Please select “Recover from iOS Devices” then click “Start Scan”.
Step 3: After scan finish, select the contacts you want to recover in “Show deleted files only” and click “Recover”.
1. After you find the contacts lost, please try to recover them immediately with Renee iPhone Recovery and stop using your devices before recovering them back.
2. It is recommended to analyze the iPhone with the free version of Renee iPhone Recovery at first. If it can find out the lost contact, you can decide to get the full version.
3.The recovered contacts will be save in xls, csv and html formats.
4. Please stop using the mobile once you find you lose the contacts.