I somehow lost a bunch of contacts on my iphone. I checked my iCloud storage and all the lost contacts are stored in iCloud, but when I try to restore, my phone contact list does not get restored. Any help?

Most likely they are connected to an email account; when you add a contact it gets added to the contacts for the default email account. While it is possible to add contacts directly to the phone, that is never the default.

417ariesgirl wrote:

Finally figured out what you were talking about! I kept going into the "Settings" first then Contacts and Phone. The Groups is right in the phone on the Home Screen. Where you would go to look for a Contact. Whew! You made it way harder than it needed to be. Soon as I did it they all showed up.

Home Screen - Phone Icon- (like you would be placing a call or looking up a contact) - Contacts - Upper Left Groups - Check All Groups.

Umm, look at my post marked “Solved” at the top of this page, where it says:

Open Contacts app. Tap on Groups in the upper left corner. Make sure all groups are checked.

I lost a lot of my contacts as well, even though I didn't have them directly linked to an email address. (I have multiple email addresses.) I tried many of the suggestions listed below. Nothing worked.

As a last resort, I went to my contacts app and clicked groups. All of my groups were checked. However, a very old yahoo email address I use to use was not listed in the list of groups. So I went to >settings>contacts>accounts. There I added the old yahoo email address and BOOM. All of my contacts came back. (I must have used that old address years ago when I initially set up my contacts.)

Sure hope this helps!

Boggling wrote:

I can’t access the (your name).

Tap on the Settings icon. Look at the top of the screen. You should see your name, unless the phone is not logged in to your Apple ID. Tap on your name. If the phone is not logged in to your Apple ID you can’t recover contacts from iCloud.

I keep losing contacts...they will be there and then when i go back several days, weeks they are gone...

Open Contacts, tap on Groups in the upper right and make sure all groups are checked.

My phone was stolen in January and I never got all of my contacts from the Icloud, can you help me?

i have lost my contacts on phone plases help me get them back got new phone

I did that. Contacts are on. All I can do is go to search to get the one I want. That is a hassle when making several calls.

What happened and how do I retreive all contacts at one time.

I work in real estate and I have been deleting, old email accounts on iPhone 7, each time I delete an account all contacts dissapear, if you can help please

I’ve lost my contacts

I’m having same issue and no longer see Groups in the upper left corner. Only + sign upper right to add new contacts and search. In addition, all of my Notes also disappeared.

I had this same problem. Some groups in my iPhone Contact list that were not checked. Once I ticked them it fixed my problem.