Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2

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

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

K2467 Said:

"Contacts disappeared after update to ios 14.4.2: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately this did not work either. I guess I'll have to manually save the contacts again."

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You are welcome. This time, use an external hard drive to backup, rather than iCloud, being that iCloud seems to be a failure of sorts.

Edit:

* then place it back in. Next..