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Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2

After updating to ios 14.4.2, those of my contacts have disappeared which were saved with (+) international dialing prefix . Really annoying that the update was not properly tested before rolling out. Any fix?

Posted on Apr 7, 2021 7:20 PM

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Posted on Apr 7, 2021 8:18 PM

K2467 Said:

"Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2: After updating to ios 14.4.2, those of my contacts have disappeared which were saved with (+) international dialing prefix . Really annoying that the update was not properly tested before rolling out. Any fix?"

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Two Thoughts:

Restore your iPhone from a Backup:

Have any backups of this iPhone prior to the this occurrence? If so, then restore your iPhone from it. Alternatively, restore the contacts from the backups:


Restore the Contacts from a Backup:

  1. Go Here: Restore Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, and More Using iCloud.com - Apple Support
  2. Scroll to: Restore your contacts
  3. Proceed from there as necessary
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Apr 7, 2021 8:18 PM in response to K2467

K2467 Said:

"Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2: After updating to ios 14.4.2, those of my contacts have disappeared which were saved with (+) international dialing prefix . Really annoying that the update was not properly tested before rolling out. Any fix?"

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Two Thoughts:

Restore your iPhone from a Backup:

Have any backups of this iPhone prior to the this occurrence? If so, then restore your iPhone from it. Alternatively, restore the contacts from the backups:


Restore the Contacts from a Backup:

  1. Go Here: Restore Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, and More Using iCloud.com - Apple Support
  2. Scroll to: Restore your contacts
  3. Proceed from there as necessary

Apr 9, 2021 1:13 PM in response to K2467

K2467 Said:

"Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2: Thanks. But restoration from iCloud doesn't work. It says contacts restored, but still contacts that were initially saved using +1 international dialing prefix are not visible anymore."

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+1 is dialing prefix for U.S.A. numbers.


Try Importing the contacts from the SIM card. So, remove the SIM card, then please it place in. Next..

  1. Go to: Settings
  2. Tap: Contacts
  3. Tap: Import SIM Contacts

Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2

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