How to Recover Lost Contact when my iPhone was lost or stolen

Many iPhone users say: “it’s lucky I’ve backed up my iphone contacts to my computer with iTunes.Why I can’t preview or get those backed up contact?” But does this always work for you? Let’s see how iTunes back up your iphone contacts.

How iTunes back up your iPhone contacts
As an iPhone user, who tends to manage the content of iPhone with iTunes, must know that iTunes backs up everything of your iPhone first when you sync with it. This will be the warmest thing when you lost your contacts from iPhone. The bad point is that the backup file is not regular file type, but a SQlitedb file, which is not allowed to preview, even access. Sometimes it’s encrypted, just for private safe. So it’s a little hard to retrieve the contacts without an iPhone. But you may have to see the contacts on that iPhone while you don’t get enough time or money to buy a new iphone right now. Then what you’ll do?

Fortunately, we have the iPhone Contact Recovery Software, which is a powerful iPhone Data Recovery,not only can help you scan and extract contacts from iTunes backup files,but also supports restore contacts from iPhone directly without backup.What’s more,it can help you recover contacts, photos & videos, SMS, call logs, memos and calendars, even Safari bookmarks . Once you lost your iPhone devices,this iOS Data Recovery allows you get lost data back from iTunes or iCloud easily.. Then let’s see how to get contacts from the backup file with the Dr. Fone iOS Recovery.

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How to Recover Lost iPhone Contacts from iTunes Backup

Step 1. Scan for lost or deleted iPhone contacts
Launch iTunes Data Recovery on your computer, in the main interface you will see your iPhone backup file listed here. The backup file will be automatically found by the program once you have it synced with iTunes or backup iPhone on your computer. Select it on the list, and then click "Start Scan".

Step 2. Preview iPhone contacts you want to recover
After scanning, you could preview all deleted or lost contacts from iPhone. Select the files you need to restore and then click "Recover" to recover deleted contacts on iPhone without iTunes.

Step 3. Recover lost contacts from iPhone
Finally, select a path to save the recovered iPhone contacts. In addition, you could use this method to restore iPhone call history and other files as well.
If you are using a Mac, you can try this iPhone Contacts Recovery for Mac. It fully works for Mac OS X 10. 8, 10.7, etc.

Method 2. Recover Deleted, Lost Contacts from iCloud without iPhone

Method 2 will show you another way to recover iPhone contacts from iCloud backup files with iPhone Data Recovery. This user-friendly tool enables users to recover contacts, photos, messages, call history, etc. from iCloud without iPhone dievces, but make sure you have sync iPhone data to iCloud before,you can download all backup files from iCloud,and then scan/extract contacts from iCloud easily.

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