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How to recover my contacts and photos from my other phones

How to recover all my information, contacts, photos and etc. from my old phones to this phone

iPhone SE, iOS 16

Posted on Oct 18, 2023 10:03 AM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2023 11:07 AM

Treemonkeyss wrote:

How to recover all my information, contacts, photos and etc. from my old phones to this phone

Contacts - sign back into whatever mail or cloud program you use on your new phone and turn contacts on.

Other data - restore from your backup. Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

No backup no recovery.

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Oct 18, 2023 11:07 AM in response to Treemonkeyss

Treemonkeyss wrote:

How to recover all my information, contacts, photos and etc. from my old phones to this phone

Contacts - sign back into whatever mail or cloud program you use on your new phone and turn contacts on.

Other data - restore from your backup. Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

No backup no recovery.

Dec 5, 2023 7:34 PM in response to Treemonkeyss

Unbeknown to me installing iOS 17 on my iPhone and iPad changed how my contacts are stored. I no longer have any of their addresses. It was completely deleted. Fortunately I have an older Excel spreadsheet that I created from my iPhone about two years ago but I am waiting for my computer to be repaired after Microsoft screwed us by Installing this new program copilot. This, of course, is a rhetorical question why the **** don’t these programmers at Apple and Microsoft actually use these beta programs before they upload them to our computers and iPhones or at least tell us in advance what they are going to mess up! I don’t need an answer to this, unless any of you know How to bring back all the addresses for my contacts. I just have to. Sound off! 😈

How to recover my contacts and photos from my other phones

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