I lost a lot of my contacts by using the merge feature of the Phone Cleaner: Clean Storage+ app. The app said I can recover discarded contacts for 30 days. Does anyone know how to do that?
Contacts are tied to email addresses. So first log in to the email provider’s webmail site, and verify that the contacts are still on the server. If they are they should sync to your phone. If you don’t see them see if your provider has a way to recover contacts.
Specifically for iCloud contacts, see→iCloud: Restore contacts, calendars, and more in iCloud Settings
Contacts are tied to email addresses. So first log in to the email provider’s webmail site, and verify that the contacts are still on the server. If they are they should sync to your phone. If you don’t see them see if your provider has a way to recover contacts.
Specifically for iCloud contacts, see→iCloud: Restore contacts, calendars, and more in iCloud Settings
Get rid of Phone Cleaner; your phone does not need “cleaning”, and those apps that claim to clean it just interfere with the built in storage management that does a better job than any 3rd party software.
As to how to fix the problem, if it is fixable at all, you will have to contact the app provider.
What you CAN do is restore a backup of your phone that was made before this trashy app was installed.
Thank you Lawerence. I had immediately stopped the app. I am still not sure how to recover contacts but hat were from several sources, not just iCloud. I was hoping there was a trash on my phone and that I could just tap into that within 30 days and get the data back.
How to Recover Contacts after Merge using Phone Cleaner:Clean Storage+ app
