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Q: All contacts were deleted on iCloud how can I recover them

I deleted a group from my contacts in iCloud and all my contacts have been deleted, including on my iPhone! How can I recover them with doing a restore?

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 10:02 AM

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Q: All contacts were deleted on iCloud how can I recover them

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Feb 26, 2014 5:24 AM in response to Moses56
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    Feb 26, 2014 5:24 AM in response to Moses56

    If you deleted them you will need to restore from a backup.

  • by Moses56,

    Moses56 Moses56 Feb 26, 2014 9:15 AM in response to Csound1
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    Feb 26, 2014 9:15 AM in response to Csound1

    Thanks, I did exactly that in the end. I'm still a little confused as I did the restore via iTunes and, the most recent iCloud backup would not let me restore from it! Hence, I retrieved most of my contacts but, in a mess as it's an old backup!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Feb 26, 2014 9:46 AM in response to Moses56
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    Feb 26, 2014 9:46 AM in response to Moses56

    I never use the iCloud backup option, it is incomplete. Use iTunes from now on, but you should be using Time Machine to properly backup your Mac, virtually all of the data on your iPhone is on your Mac as well. But very little of the data on your Mac is on the iPhone (usually)