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Hakim33 Author

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lost contacts

I was sending an email on the mail app and removed one of the extra accounts from the settings which wasn't mine and suddenly found that a lot of my contacts disappeared. I could only recover 36 contacts but they are not the ones i need i don't know if it's related to the mail account i removed or not but i don't even have access to this account anymore and tried to recover contacts from icloud.com but it didn't work either. Is there anything i can do to get them back?

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 8, 2020 5:09 AM

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SravanKrA

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Posted on Apr 8, 2020 5:11 AM

Contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

How many Contacts account (email client server) you have?
What is your default Contacts Account?
Which email account you are using to store Contacts?

See the GIF below for Contacts and Default Account

Learn how to add an email account and make it default (Watch the GIF)
This example is for Gmail but the process remains same for all Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

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