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How to Recover Deleted iPhone Contacts

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In recent months we've received a lot of reports that iPhone (iPad, and iPod Touch) users suddenly find all of their contacts are missing from their iPhone, with no clues about how the contacts vanished! If your iPhone contacts are gone, we have a few different solutions to help you recover them.

Decipher Backup Browser runs on any Windows or Mac computer and lets you immediately see if you have any deleted iPhone contacts that are recoverable. If you made an iPhone backup in the past prior to your contacts being deleted, there is a good chance that your missing contacts will be accessible!

Privacy: Keep in mind that when you run Decipher Backup Browser, all your iPhone data is private on your computer. Any deleted contacts that you recover are local to your computer and only you have access to them.


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How to search for deleted iPhone contacts in a backup

Follow these steps to recover deleted contacts from iPhone

  1. Run Decipher Backup Browser.
  2. Select a backup and choose Contacts.
  3. Choose Save to recover any erased or deleted contacts to your computer.
  4. Email the exported VCF file to yourself.
  5. Open the email on your iPhone and click on the vcard attachment.
  6. Select to add the deleted contacts back to your iPhone contacts list.

Here's an example of how your iPhone contacts are displayed in Decipher Backup Browser.

Regardless of whether your iPhone was lost, stolen, or if you simply manually deleted your contacts, Decipher Backup Browser will conveniently show you all the contacts contained in your most recent backup. If you are able to successfully retrieve the lost contacts, you can save the VCF file and merge the contacts back into the existing contacts on your iPhone or iPad!

Conclusion

We hope that this Decipher Tools tutorial on how to recover deleted iPhone contacts was useful. If you have any questions or need further assistance you can reach out to us via our contact page and one of our staff will reply from either our San Francisco or Phoenix offices.

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