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How to retrieve deleted contacts?

I deleted an old work email account and lost over 1500 contacts. I tried to restore from iCloud but am unable to retrieve them. Any suggestions



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Posted on Mar 10, 2022 8:41 AM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2022 8:56 AM

Your work mail account is not necessarily as an Apple ID signed in Mac system preferences , the Apple ID could be signed as example2@icloud.com or other , however the work mail account was added in internet accounts , so the contacts were saved in Mac address book .

When you tried to recover those contacts from iCloud.com 30 days are crossed the contacts are now erased from the server and can't be recovered .

In case if you were using gmail services then also contacts won't be recovered https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7280886?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

If you had archived the contacts previously then only they can be found Export or archive contacts in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support

Read Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support

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Mar 10, 2022 8:56 AM in response to BOO2-

Your work mail account is not necessarily as an Apple ID signed in Mac system preferences , the Apple ID could be signed as example2@icloud.com or other , however the work mail account was added in internet accounts , so the contacts were saved in Mac address book .

When you tried to recover those contacts from iCloud.com 30 days are crossed the contacts are now erased from the server and can't be recovered .

In case if you were using gmail services then also contacts won't be recovered https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7280886?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

If you had archived the contacts previously then only they can be found Export or archive contacts in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support

Read Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support

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