How to Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from iPhone?

Many iPhone users search in google about “how to recover contacts without iPhone”, “recover contacts when iPhone was stolen”, “any way restore iPhone contacts from iTunes”,ect. Actually,when you iPhone was lost or stolen,you can get back contacts in 3 ways!

You can recover contacts with or without your iPhone

Knowledge: iTunes can automatically back up your iPhone contacts and update it every time when you sync it. So you really have a big chance to recover contacts from iTunes backup.So you can extract your contacts from the iTunes backup when you lost your iPhone.

The iPhone Contact Recovery: iPhone Data Recovery provides you 3 recovery mode to recover iPhone contacts:
1)Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone contacts (without iPhone)
2)Directly scan and recover contacts from iPhone (with iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS)
3)Recover iPhone contacts from iCloud Backup Files (without iPhone)

Recover iPhone Contacts

Restore iPhone Contacts in Three Recovery Modes:
To recover iPhone contacts direcctly,or get contacts from the iTunes/iCloud backup file. You need an iPhone contacts recovery tool, and you can have my recommendation here: iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery. Besides recovering contacts from iTunes backups, both of the software can also help to scan and recover contacts from iPhone directly, if you didn't lose your iPhone.

You can download the free trial version below to have a try.

 
Let’s this article teach you how to directly scan and recover contacts from iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS,you also follow other recovery mode (recover iPhone contacts from iTunes/iCloud Backup files) to get all lost contacts back!

How to Recover iPhone Contacts no matter Lost or Deleted

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the computer
If you didn't lose your iPhone, you can also use this way to recover your contacts. Connect your iPhone and run the iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery program on your computer.
Ⅰ. For iPhone 5S/5C/5 or iPhone 4S users, you'll see the main window as follows.
Only a "Start Scan" button on the main window. After connecting your iPhone, you only need to click the "Start Scan" button to scan your iPhone. You'll see this scanning window immediately after clicking the "Start Scan" button.


Connect your iPhone to the computer

Ⅱ.For iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users, you can choose to go to the Advanced Mode to get a deeper scan for your iPhone. Just click on the button at the lower right-corner.

Recover iPhone lost contacts

Step 2: Enter the device's scanning mode and scan it
iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S users don't need to do this step. You only need to click "Start Scan" to directly scan your iPhone for deleted contacts on it.
 For iPhone 4/3GS users, you need to follow the steps below to enter the device's scanning mode to scan it:
1) Hold your device and click the "Start" button.
2) Pressing the "Power" and "Home" buttons at the same time for exact 10 seconds.
3) Then release the "Power" button, but keep holding "Home"  for another 15 seconds until you get the message of successfully entering.
Whatever the device you use, the program will automatically begin scanning your iPhone for lost contacts after you doing the steps accordingly.

Enter the device's scanning mode and scan your iPhone

Step 3: Preview and recover iPhone contacts
When the scan is finished, you can preview all found data before recovery. Choose "Contacts" to preview, mark it and click "Recover", you can save all the contents on your computer with one click.

Preview and recover iPhone contacts

The data found here includes deleted data and those still on your iPhone. If you only want back your lost ones, you can refine the scan result by using the slide button on the top to only display the deleted items.

 
Note: If you want to import recovered contacts back to your iPhone, you can use iPhone Data Manage to do it in a few clicks.

Tips: If you have back up iPhone data to iCloud,you can follow this recovery mode about Recover Data from iCloud Backup for iPhone

What’s more about iPhone Data Recovery:

The iPhone Data Recovery: iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery (Windows) or iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery (Mac) is the World’s 1st iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Emergency data recovery software for personal users recover Lost Contacts, Messages,Photos, Videos, Camera Roll, Photo Library, Message Attachments, Call History and more.

-Selectively browse and retrieve data from iOS devices, iCloud backup and iTunes backup (including encrypted one).
-Retrieve data up to 18 types like photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, call log, voicemail, voice memos, calendars, reminders, etc.
-Recover App data like WhatsApp, Instagram, Flickr, iPhoto, iMovie, Kindle, Keynote, etc.
-Recover lost data for any iPhone/iPad/iPod device due to deletion, device crashed, smashed or broken, device loss, jailbreak, iOS upgrade or factory settings restore.

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