How to restore Lost or stolen iPhone Contacts

You iPhone was lost or stolen. Though,you iPhone was gone,do you want to get those lost contacts back? This article teach you two ways to restore lost iPhone contacts back without iPhone.

One of the most annoying things to lose when your iPhone is to lose all your contacts. Without the contacts is not possible to inform friends and family have lost your phone, and you'll never know what it will do with the person who will find it. Therefore, the first thing you must do after the loss or theft of your iPhone is to recover your contacts.

In fact, when you sync your iPhone with iTunes generates a backup file on your device, and it is a kind of file format SQLitedb. In general you can not access or read it directly, but with the right tool Data Extractor you can extract the content from it, such as your contacts.

Thus in order to find the contacts of your iPhone download a contact extractor: iPhone Data Recovery Mac or iPhone Data Recovery (Windows), an effective program that allows you to retrieve the entire contents of the iPhone's contacts, text messages, photos, videos, call history, etc., from iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS or other Apple devices.

Way 1: How to recover iPhone contacts from iTunes

This recovery mode teach you how to recover contacts from iPhone backup with the help of iPhone Contact Recovery for Mac,if you use Windows computer,you can aslo restore iPhone contaccts from iTunes backup files.

Step 1. Scans data of your iPhone to your Mac
Launch the program on your Mac, you'll see the following interface. Select your device and the type of recovery.

Step 2. Scan iPhone to find data deleted recently
Select "Recover from iOS Device" and find the name of your lost iPhone, choose it and click "Scan" to start the search of contacts.

Step 3. Retrieve contacts iPhone
After scanning, go to the category "contacts" in the sidebar of the program. You can preview all the detailed contents of your contacts before recovery. Tick ​​what you want and click "Recover" to save them all on your Mac.

Way 2: How to recover iPhone Contacts from iCloud backup files

Step1 :Download and Extract the iCloud Backup File
After run the iOS Data Recovery program,please choose the third recovery mode: “Recover from iCloud Backup File”, and then log in by entering your Apple ID. After that, the iOS Data Recovery will show all your backup files which exist in iCloud account. Choose the iPhone photos you want by downloading and extracting. Please keep the internet connected and wait for a while.

Step 2: Preview and Recover Lost Contacts

 

Besides recovering contacts from iTunes/iCloud backup, the iPhone Contact Recovery:iPhone Data Recovery can help to scan and restore contacts directly from iPhone if you didn’t lose it. So you have 2 ways to recover iphone contacts with iPhone Contact Recovery Tool.

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