How to retrieve deleted phone numbers on iphone without icloud

Sometimes, you delete some important contacts accidentally and don't have any backups, but now you want to recover them. You may wonder: "How can I recover deleted contacts from iPhone without backup?" Recovering deleted contacts is a common issue, but it’s not one that everyone knows how to resolve, especially for those people who haven’t had to do it before. Fortunately, you are at the right place when it comes to recovering your deleted contacts from iPhone. Keep reading!

• Is there any way to recover contacts from the iPhone itself?
• How to Recover iPhone Contacts without Backup

Is there any way to recover contacts from the iPhone itself?

I accidentally deleted several contacts from my iPhone 6s, and forget to back them up with iTunes. Now I need them urgently, but I've heard that there is no way to recover deleted data on an iPhone except through backup. Is that really? Can I recover my iPhone contacts without any backup? Please help! Thanks in advance.

The saying that there is no way to recover iPhone contacts without iTunes or iCloud backup is absolutely wrong. Due to the special technology of iOS devices, it's very hard to recover deleted iPhone contacts directly from the iPhone itself, but it's not impossible. There is indeed such a program that enables you to recover contacts from iPhone without iTunes/iCloud backup files: Dr.Fone - Data Recovery (iOS).

Note: If you've synced your iPhone with iTunes or iCloud on your PC or Mac before losing your contacts, you can also recover your previous contacts by extracting the iTunes or iCloud backup. You can also backup iPhone contacts without iTunes or iCloud.

Dr.Fone - Data Recovery (iOS)

A Dedicated Tool to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone/iPad without Backup

• Provide three ways to recover iPhone data.
• Scan iOS devices to recover photos, video, contacts, messages, notes, etc.
• Extract and preview all content in iCloud/iTunes backup files.
• Selectively restore what you want from iCloud/iTunes backup to your device or computer.
• Compatible with the latest iPhone models.

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How to Recover iPhone Contacts without Backup

Before recovering deleted iPhone contacts, you need to know that you shouldn't use your iPhone for anything after you lost your contacts, because any operation on your iPhone may overwrite the lost data. The best way is to power off your iPhone until you've recovered the lost iPhone contacts.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer

First of all, connect your iPhone to your computer, and then run Dr.Fone. Here below you can see several tools provided on the dashboard. Just select the "Data Recovery" tool from Dr.Fone dashboard.

Step 2. Scan deleted contacts on your iPhone

Click the "Start Scan" button after choosing the "Contacts" below "Deleted files". Then the program will automatically begin to scan your iPhone for deleted contacts on it.

Note: If you want to scan and recover other file types, you also can check the items at the same time before scanning.

Step 3. Preview & recover deleted iPhone contacts without backup

After the scan, you can preview all data that have been found by Dr.Fone. Choose "Contacts" on the left side and you can preview all your deleted contacts here as follow, including job titles, addresses, and more.

The data found here include those contacts you have on your iPhone now. If you only want to retrieve deleted contacts from your iPhone, After you have marked the ones which you want to recover, click "Recover to Device". You also can recover all contacts to your computer for restoring.

Watch the video below to learn how to recover deleted contacts iPhone without backup.

Contacts are so important that it will be a disaster in case people delete or lose the phone numbers. Worse still, most iPhone users lose all contacts, instead of a single one or several, when accident happens. We always rely on contacts to make calls, send texts and therefore keep in touch with our family, relatives, friends, colleagues, clients or commercial partners. So it is quite annoying when iPhone contacts disappeared or lost due to various reasons, such as mistaken deletion, failure of iOS upgrade or iPhone jailbreak, factory settings restore, etc. Read on as we sum up 5 free and practical approaches to get contacts back on iPhone, including cases with or without backup, from iCloud.com, the best tool for iPhone contact recovery and so on.

• Method 1: Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone without Backup
• Method 2: Restore Contacts from iCloud If You Set Up iCloud Sync
• Method 3: Get Deleted Contacts Back on iPhone via Messages App
• Method 4: Retrieve Deleted iPhone Contacts from Google Contacts
• Method 5: Restore Contacts on iPhone from iCloud/iTunes Backup

Method 1: Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone without Backup

Contacts disappeared from iPhone but you don’t have any backup available? Don’t worry. Gihosoft Free iPhone Recovery can help you to recover lost contacts from iPhone or iPad without backup. It is a free but useful iPhone data recovery software to recover photos, text messages, contacts, WhatsApp and more data on iPhone 12/12 Pro/12 Mini, iPhone 11/11 Pro, iPhone XS/XS Max/XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8/7/6s/6 Plus, iPad Pro etc. running on iOS 14/13/12. Download it and have a try!

To Restore Lost/Disappeared Contacts on iPhone:

• Step 1: Launch the free iPhone Contact Recovery and check the “Contacts” in the file types. Go to the next.
• Step 2: Connect your iPhone to PC. The freeware will detect the matched iTunes backup if you have one.
• Step 3: Click on “Next” to scan your iPhone/iTunes backup. After scanning, you can recover and export lost contacts to PC as text, html, csv files.
  
  

Method 2: Restore Contacts from iCloud If You Set Up iCloud Sync

If you’ve set up iCloud Sync before, there is no need to panic when contacts disappeared on your iPhone. You can easily restore contacts from iCloud. Log in to iCloud via a web browser on your computer by navigating to https://www.icloud.com. Click on Contacts icon to check if the deleted or lost iPhone contacts you need exist in your iCloud account or not. If there are, you have three options.

Option 1: Synchronize iPhone with iCloud Contacts Again

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud and turn off Contacts.
2. In the pop-up that appears, choose the option of “Keep on My iPhone”.
3. Later, toggle the Contacts switch on and choose “Merge”.
4. Wait for a while, all the contacts on your iCloud account will be loaded to iPhone and you should get the deleted contacts back.
   
   

Option 2: Export iCloud Contacts Onto Your Computer

1. When logged in iCloud Contacts on PC, select all contacts by pressing Ctrl + A.
2. Next, click on the cogwheel in the lower-left corner and select “Export vCard…”.
3. The contacts will be save as a vCard (.vcf) file on PC. Last, send the .vcf file by email and download it on iPhone with Safari.
   
   

Option 3: Restore iPhone Contacts in Settings on iCloud.com

Just like Calendars, Reminders and Safari bookmarks, you contacts are automatically archived in iCloud. When iPhone contacts disappeared or deleted by mistake, you can restore an earlier version of your contacts.

1. Sign in to iCloud.com with your Apple ID and password
2. Click Settings, scroll down to the Advanced section and click “Restore Contacts”.
3. All available versions of archived contacts are listed there by date and time. Choose the right version you need to restore and tap on “Restore”.
4. Tap on “Restore” again to confirm the action and begin the restore process. Once it’s done, the restored contacts should appear on your iPhone.
   
   

Method 3: Restore Contacts via iPhone Messages App

This trick that only few people know can help to recover some of the iPhone contacts – at least the ones you often keep contact with.

1. Tap on the iPhone Messages and create a new message.
2. In the “To” field, type the name or number of the contact that you deleted from phone book.
3. Most probably the contact info of number and name will pop and then tap the “i” circle to Create New Contact based on the number.
   
   

Method 4: Retrieve iPhone Contacts from Google Contacts

If you’ve synced your contacts to your Google account or other Cloud Services, follow these steps to restore them to your iPhone.

1. Tap on Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Add Account > Google or other Cloud Services.
2. Enter your Google email address and password. Then “Sign in” and tap “Allow”.
3. Turn on the “Contacts” switch and tap “Save” in the top right corner.
   
   

Method 5: Restore Contacts on iPhone from iCloud/iTunes Backup

If you have backed up your iPhone to iCloud or iTunes before losing contacts from the device, you can always restore from backup to get back the missing contacts on iPhone.

Option 1: Restore Contacts from iCloud Backup

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Reset and tap on “Erase All Content and Settings”.
2. Follow the onscreen set up instructions and tap on “Restore from iCloud Backup” in the “Apps & Data” screen.
3. Sing in to iCloud with your Apple ID and password, then choose a backup you need to restore from and wait for the process to complete.
   
   

Option 2: Restore Contacts from iTunes Backup

1. Connect your iPhone to a computer and open iTunes. If you are using a Mac running macOS Catalina 10,15, launch Finder.
2. Select your device when it appears in the iTunes or Finder and click on “Restore Backup”
3. In the pop-up window, choose the backup file that you want to restore from, then click on “Restore”.
   
   

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