How to Recover Contacts after Merge using Phone Cleaner:Clean Storage+ app

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?


Posted on Aug 13, 2022 5:48 PM

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Posted on Aug 14, 2022 8:27 AM

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

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Aug 14, 2022 8:27 AM in response to Keps54

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

Aug 13, 2022 6:21 PM in response to Keps54

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.

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