How to recover deleted contacts

How to recover deleted contacts on Android-smartphone

Google periodically create backups of contacts on the server and stores each of them up to 30 days. This is due to synchronize your device with your Google Account.

If the synchronization and the system has been configured on your machine to remove the contact time to create one or multiple copies, you can try to recover their means of one of the previous versions of the phone book.

For this you need the service "Contacts". recovery function is in its web version, and the eponymous application. Use the option that you feel more comfortable.

To restore contacts using the web version, open it in a desktop browser "Contacts"Click" More »→« Cancel Changes. " After that, select the appropriate date for the creation of a copy of the recovery and follow the prompts.

To recover deleted files in the application "Contacts", start it and then log in to your Google Account. Then, open the Settings app and click "Restore". Select the appropriate copy of the program and follow the prompts.

How to recover deleted contacts on the iPhone

1. From backup contacts online iCloud

This option should help if you have previously chosen to sync iPhone c iCloud contacts. In this case, the server must present a copy of the phone book created on different days. With their help, you can restore your contacts to an earlier state.

To check the availability of backups, log on iCloud website through a desktop browser. Then, go to "Settings" and in the "More", select "Restore contacts."

If you are lucky, you will see a list of available copies along with the dates they were created. Select the desired backup and click "Restore". iCloud will replace all current contact data from the online archive. This will occur on all devices connected to this account. If the copies will not try other ways.

2. With the help of a manual export contacts from iCloud

If the backups you have not found, but the deleted contacts are displayed in the "Contacts" section in the web version of iCloud, try to export them to iPhone.

To do this, select all the online phonebook entries that are removed from the smartphone. Then click on the gears in the lower left corner and select "Export vCard».

On a computer Download File Format VCF c dates of your contacts. Send it by email to the mailbox, accessible from your iPhone, and then open the attachment using the standard iOS-program "Mail". In the next menu, click "Add all contacts N '- then they should appear in the phone book.

If it does not, open the application "Contacts" and update the list by swiping your finger across the screen from top to bottom. If the situation does not change, go to the next method.

3. From a full backup copy of the iPhone to iTunes

Count on this option only if you have created before losing contact backup iPhone to your computer using iTunes. In this case, you can restore the machine to a previous state. In this case, not only contacts but also all the current settings and files will be deleted from the iPhone, and their place will be the contents of the copy.

Connect your phone to your computer via USB and launch iTunes. If prompted, enter your login and password. Then click on the icon of iPhone, then click the "Restore from backup". Select the last copy, which precedes the date of the loss of contact, and click "Restore".

After the restoration and synchronization c remote computer contacts should appear on the iPhone.

If you do not have backups of contacts

Even if the device or the server does not backup your contacts list, is still a chance to recover it. For this there are special programs like PhoneRescue and dr.fone. Typically, they are paid, and there are quite a few. But if you went away really important data, perhaps it makes sense to pay.

see also

• How to recover data from Android-device →
• How to transfer contacts from one phone to the other →
• How to recover data on a computer, smartphone, tablet, and the memory card →