How to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone without Backup

By Selena KomezUpdated on February 18, 2020


[Summary]: Lost your important contacts on iPhone without backup? How to recover deleted contacts from iPhone 11/XS/XR/X/8/7/6S/6 without backup(iCloud or iTunes)? Use iPhone Contacts Recovery software to restore iPhone contacts directly.

All my iPhone contacts disappeared…I logged out iCloud and signed in again and then slid the syncing on, but I find all contacts were loss.How can I recover lost contacts from iPhone without backup?

I recently updated my iPhone X to iOS 13 and I found all the saved contacts on my device were lost. Is this possible to restore lost contacts on iPhone? Can someone help me understand how to recover lost contacts on iPhone X?

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Contacts are so important in your daily life, when you have got an new iPhone, the first thing you need to do is adding as many phone numbers as needed to the Contacts app, or transfer contacts from old phone to iPhone, so that you can use the saved phone number to make a phone call, text your friends, send an email, etc.  But if you lost contacts on iPhone, how to recover lost contacts on iPhone?

Sometimes, contacts losing due to iOS systems upgrade, synchronization error or accident deletion. When you found the contacts are lost, but you haven’t create iPhone backup before the contacts are gone. However, is there any way to recover contacts from the iPhone itself? Don’t worry, you still have chance to recover lost contacts on iPhone ever you haven’t created iPhone backup with iTunes or iCloud before.

Tips: When you found contacts lost on your iPhone, you need to stop using the device immediately and don’t add new phone numbers to the Contact app. Doing so will increase the odds that the lost contacts are actually overwritten by new data you added. Please use a professional iPhone Contact Recovery to recover the lost or deleted contacts from iPhone.

iPhone Contacts Recovery Software

The iPhone Contacts Recovery can help you recover and export lost contacts from any iOS device, including iPhone 11 Pro Max/11 Pro/11, iPhone XS/XS Max, iPhone XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8/8 Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S. You can easily recover the lost contacts with full information like contacts name, phone number, Email, job title, companies, address, and more which you fill on your iPhone. And the exported contacts will be saved as VCF, CSV or HTML files for your using, copying or printing.

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Recover Deleted Contacts on iPhone Without iTunes or iCloud Backup

This tutorial take iPhone Data Recovery (Mac) as an example (steps with iPhone Data Recovery for Windows are similar as follows). Let’s learn how easy to recover iPhone lost contacts without backups.

Step 1. Download, Install and Run iOS Toolkit
Download, install and launch the iOS Toolkit on computer and select “iPhone Data Recovery”.

iphone data recovery for mac

Step 2. Choose “Recover from iOS Device” mode
Start up the program on computer, and you will be given the options to choose any suitable mode to start from. Just select “Recover from iOS Device” mode so that you can recover deleted contacts from iPhone storage without any iCloud or iTunes backup.

Then, get your iPhone plugged into the machine and wait for the connection.

connect iPhone to Mac

Step 3. Choose iPhone contacts to recover
From here, you can select the type of data that you wish to scan. You can choose to look for only the deleted content or perform an extensive scan. To get better results, we recommend performing a complete scan. Just make sure that the “Contacts” option is enabled before clicking on the “Start Scan” button.

Select Contacts

Step 4. Scan All Contacts from the iPhone
The software will start scan the deleted or loss contacts on your device. It might take a while so you need to make sure that the device stays connected to the computer.

scan contacts from iPhone

Step 5. Preview and Recover iPhone Lost Contacts
Once the application has retrieved the deleted or lost content, it will display it under different categories. click on “Contacts” category and you can see the contact details on the middle pane.

Tips: You can toggle the “Only display the deleted item(s)” switch to ON position to view just the lost contacts.

recover contacts on iPhone 11

The last step, please select which contact you want to get back from iPhone. To select all deleted contacts, click a checkmark next to the “Contacts” category on the left sidebar, then click “Recover” button to retrieve and export the lost contacts to computer directly.

The recovered contacts be saved as HTML or CSV file to your chosen path, so that you can view the contacts on the computer and transfer them back to your iPhone.

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If you want to transfer the recovered contacts back to your iPhone for using, you should save them as CSV format, then use this iPhone Manager tool to directly add contacts to your iPhone easily.
Also read: How to import contacts to iPhone

Conclusion

iPhone Data Recovery makes it easily to recover lost contacts, messages, photos, videos, notes, call logs, WhatsApp from iPhone even though you haven’t created iTunes or iCloud backup previously. In addition, if you have backup iPhone to iTunes or iCloud before, the iPhone Data Recovery also can help you restore and export lost data from iTunes backup; or download and import data from iCloud backup selectively.

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