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After deleting email accounts I also lost all contacts - SOS

Hi!

I was constantly getting pop ups whenever I opened my phone to make a call. The pop ups had something to do with my previous email accounts that I had added to my "Mail" app.


I finally hit "Settings" rather than cancel and really don't remember what my phone was prompting me to do but I saw the option to delete my old work email accounts from my phone. Once I deleted them I noticed all my contacts were deleted as well (crying emoji) but the phone numbers/text conversations still remained. My phone has been backed up so I'm wondering if there's a works around to get my contacts back?!


Hoping someone can help me with this!


Thanks!

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 13

Posted on Feb 20, 2020 1:33 PM

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Posted on Feb 20, 2020 1:35 PM

The contacts were associated with your work email account, so when you deleted the account the contacts went with it. If you can’t add the account back there’s no way to recover the contacts. You probably had that account as your default account for contacts in your settings.

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After deleting email accounts I also lost all contacts - SOS

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