How can i get my contacts back on my phone

For many people, their iPhone contacts are a lifeline, as we all use our contact lists for making calls, sending emails, and texting friends and family. It’s so easy to use a contact list that most people struggle to remember even familiar phone numbers and addresses that they used to memorize. While contact lists have an inherent organization, you can also organize them in any way you want to make it easier to find particular individuals for home or work.

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Recovering contacts using iCloud on your iPhone
Recovering contacts using iCloud.com
Adding new contacts
How to restore contacts on Android
How do I get my phone contact list back?
Why have my contacts disappeared from my phone?

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Recovering contacts using iCloud on your iPhone
Recovering contacts using iCloud.com
Adding new contacts

But what happens if a contact, or multiple contacts, are accidentally deleted or lost during the sync process, or when restoring from a backup? While that can be scary, it’s easily rectified if you know how to recover lost contacts on an iPhone, and iCloud makes it easy. Here’s how to restore contacts on an iPhone from iCloud using iOS 14.

To avoid losing your data and contacts, check out our guide on how to backup an iPhone and how to use iCloud.

Recovering contacts using iCloud on your iPhone

If you’ve lost or deleted a contact by mistake, don’t panic. Contacts are set to sync with iCloud by default. You can go to Settings and turn them off and on to sync to your iPhone again.

Step 1: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.

Step 2: Turn Contacts off and select Keep on My iPhone.

Step 3: Turn Contacts on and select Merge. Wait a little while, and you should see the deleted contacts back on your iPhone.

Recovering contacts using iCloud.com

This is another trusted method for retrieving lost contact information — as well as other things like Reminders and Calendar events — and it comes directly from Apple. All you need is a computer, your Apple ID and password, and a bit of time.

Step 1: Pull up iCloud.com and use your Apple ID and password to log in.

Step 2: When you’ve signed in, hit the Settings button.

Step 3: Go down to the Advanced section and select Restore Contacts.

Step 4: You’ll find a list of archives you’ve created in the past. Using their dates, locate an archive that should contain your full contacts list and hit Restore.

Step 5: Hit Restore once more to confirm and start the restoration. Afterward, you’ll get an email at the address linked to your Apple ID.

Adding new contacts

These steps will update and replace all of your contacts, rather than merely adding any that are missing. So, assuming you’ve added new contacts since the last backup, you will lose those new contacts. The good news is that your iPhone will automatically backup your new contacts before it completes this restore, so you will be able to retrieve them later.

You can retrieve your new contacts by following the first three steps above. When you do, make sure you select the archive made on the same day you restored your phone. Of course, if you accidentally restore with the wrong archive, no worries. You can use the same process if you accidentally select an incorrect archive to restore your contacts.

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There was a time when we used to write down all our contacts in a book or a diary and maintained little black books. Smartphones have made diaries obsolete and has them anymore.

While it has become easier to

save contacts

now, there is also a chance that you might accidentally delete an important contact. In this post, we will show how you can easily restore contacts on your Android device.

How to restore contacts on Android

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Solution 1 – Using Google Contacts

On your phone, open the Google Contacts app. You can install the app from here.
Click on the three lines menu at the top left corner.
Now, click on ‘Settings’ and then click on ‘Undo Changes’.
Now, you can select from ’10 minutes’, ‘1 hour’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘1 week ago’ and ‘Custom’.
Once you have selected the restoration period, click on ‘Confirm’.

It must be noted that while this step will help you restore contacts from the time selected, any additions made to contacts after that period will also be removed.

Solution 2 – Using Google Contacts website

On your computer, open the Google Contacts website and login using your Google account.
Now, click on the ‘Settings’ icon at the top right corner.
Click on ‘Undo Changes’ and select the restoration period.
You can select from ’10 minutes’, ‘1 hour’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘1 week ago’ and ‘Custom’.
Click on ‘Confirm’ to proceed.

See also:

How to recover deleted messages on WhatsApp
How to track and recover a lost smartphone

How to add a device to Find My iPhone to track the location of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer

How do I get my phone contact list back?

Restore contacts from backups.

Open your phone's Settings app..

Tap Google..

Tap Set up & restore..

Tap Restore contacts..

If you have multiple Google Accounts, to choose which account's contacts to restore, tap From account..

Tap the phone with the contacts to copy..

Why have my contacts disappeared from my phone?

Make Sure Contacts Sync Works Go to Setting on your Android or Samsung. Click Account and Google account. Tap on Account sync and check if your contacts button is toggled on. If yes, you can also turn it off then on.