How to recover my old data after a factory reset of my iPhone

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How to recover my old data after a factory reset of my iPhone

Hello,

so I wanted to change phones with my mom and I have everything backed up in iCloud. I forgot that I had turned off my contacts to also be backed up. I have lost hundreds of contacts. Please how do I get them back? It’s very important for me to get at least some of them back!!

Thats not all that I’ve lost. Is there a way to recover my old data after a factory reset? Are they maybe saved in the hardware and so I can take it to a store and have it restored? Please help me😭

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Posted on Jul 2, 2024 9:51 AM

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Jul 2, 2024 11:45 AM in response to arta64

Contacts sync to email accounts, so if you log in to the email accounts you had on your phone contacts should sync also. Contacts are not part of a backup.

Did you sync to iCloud or back up to iCloud?

iCloud+ has 2 independent functions. iCloud backups, and iCloud sync. It’s confusing because they both have the same name prefix. But they have no connection with each other. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud. You will see a bunch of switches (with iOS 16 or later also tap Show All). When you turn on a switch that data type will sync to iCloud. If you do this on multiple devices that share an Apple ID the selected data will sync to all of those devices.

You can also turn on iCloud Backups. This will back up your phone every night if the phone is plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi and locked.

But note that these are independent functions; anything that you sync by the first method will be excluded from the iCloud backups.

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