How to Get Deleted Contacts Back on iPhone?

Contacts, the best ways for us to keep in touch with our family, relatives, friends, colleagues, clients or commercial partners. So it is quite annoying when iPhone contacts disappeared or lost due to various reasons, such as mistaken deletion, failure of iOS upgrade or iPhone jailbreak, factory settings restore, etc.

From above situations, we can easily know that it is important for us to back up our iPhone data like contacts, messages, photos etc. However, if you lose them due to some system problem and some unknown factors or deleted them accidentally, you can read this tutorial and find the practical approaches to get contacts back from iPhone.

In general, we can through some normal way to recover deleted contacts from iPhone by iCloud or iTunes and others, but that premise is you should have backed up them before you lost the contacts. Contrarily, if you lost or deleted without any backup, then you have to get the help of this tool called iOS Toolkit - iOS Data Recovery which allows you to recover deleted contacts from iPhone when your iPhone contacts missing.

Method 1. How to Restore Contacts on iPhone without Backup?

Method 2. How to Restore Contacts from iTunes Backup?

Method 3. How to Restore Contact from iCloud Backup?

Method 4. How to Retrieve Deleted Contacts via Google Contacts?

Method 5. Restoring Contacts on iPhone by using Messages app?

Method 6. iPhone contact missing, try to recover from Outlook.

Method 7. Recover deleted numbers on iPhone from old SIM card.

Method 1. How to Restore Contacts on iPhone without Backup?
Step 1. Connect your iPhone and scan it.
Launch Dr.Fone and connect your iPhone to PC/Mac via USB cable. Then the program will automatically detect your device and you'll see the main window as follows.



Just simply click on the "Start Scan" button to get it scanned.



Step 2. Recover deleted contacts on iPhone
After the scan, you can preview all found data before recovery. Choose "Contacts" to preview, mark it and click "Recover", and you can recover them to your iOS devices or your computer.



Method 2. How to Restore Contacts from iTunes Backup??
Step1. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" mode
Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" then you will see the backup files, then choose the device with its backup files and click "Start Scan" to begin.

Step 2. Preview and recover your iPhone contacts.
The scan will take you a few seconds, later you will see all the contents of the backup file in details as the picture, so you can preview them all. Then check the box in front of any item you want and click the "Recover" button. Besides, they can be saved as .xlsx, .html or .csv file.

Method 3. How to Restore Contacts from iCloud Backup?

Step 1. Sign in iCloud.

Run the program and select "Recover from iCloud Backup File" from the left side of the interface, then sign in iCloud with your account.

Step 2. Select iCloud backup files and types.

When you log into your iCloud, we can see a list of iCloud backup files we backed before on iCloud. Choose the one you want. And select the file types "Contacts" to scan them from iCloud backup.

Step 3. Preview and retrieving contacts from iCloud backup 

After the scan process is completed, you will see a list of the contacts on the window. We can select contacts we want to recover. The exported contacts can be saved as .xlsx, .html or .csv file.