Losing a contact stored on your iPhone can be a panic-inducing experience, but a quick trip to iCloud will restore your lost contacts. We show you how to do it.
It seems that no one can remember more than a couple of phone numbers (at best) these days. I don’t remember any, and can you even remember your closest family member’s phone number at this point? Probably not. That’s when you starting thinking about the iPhone contacts feature being a godsend. Despite the tech, however, there can be times — like installing iOS 18 beta — when your contacts go missing or get deleted. Fortunately, there are a few ways to recover your old contacts via your iPhone and other devices. We’ll guide you through each technique so you can get back to functioning as normal quickly.
Luckily, iCloud makes it easy to restore your contacts on the best iPhones. Here’s how to restore contacts on an iPhone from iCloud using iOS.
To avoid losing your data and contacts, check out our guides on how to backup an iPhone and how to use iCloud.Recover contacts using iCloud on your iPhone
If you’ve lost or deleted a contact by mistake, don’t panic. We have a fix. Your contacts are set to sync with iCloud by default, so you can go to Settings and turn them off and on to sync to your iPhone again.
