iOS 5 wiped all my contacts. Any help?

Your contacts were backed up by iTunes upon update.

Just restore your iPhone to factory settings using iTunes. When prompted to restore from backup, select the most recent backup entry. The backup contains your contacts along with other data such as calendars, notes, and Camera Roll photos.

In addition, you might want to look at ways to manually backup and manage iPhone contacts should you happen to lose track of your contacts again.

OK TOP FIX HERE

LOGIN TO https://www.icloud.com

CLICK CONTACTS

HIGHLIGHT ALL CLICK EXPORT OR PRINT PDF

THIS IS HOW I RECOVERED YOU MUST KNOW YOUR ICLOUD ACCOUNT THAT YOU HAD ON YOUR IPHONE WHEN THE CONTACTS DISAPPEARED.

I SWITCHED MY ICLOUD ACCOUNT LOST ALL CONTACTS EVEN THOUGH I HAD SIM FROM AT&T EVERYTHING WAS SAVED ON WEBSITE GIVEN. I WAS ABEL TO EXPORT {WINDOWS VISTA 7} VCARDS STORE TO WINDOWS ALSO PRINT FROM CONTACTS SETTINGS ICON AFTER LOGGING IN CLICK CONTACTS [LOOK AT BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER] . CHOOS OPTION BEST FOR YOU. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED HELP I AM WILLING TO HELP YOU. I FOUND MY SOLUTION WITHIN 1 HOUR AFTER I LOST EVERYTHING AND GOT ****** AT APPLE SUCH IDIOTS ON THIS THING MAKING LIFE HARDER GOSH.

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Message was edited by: gionav

'm in a real jam here. My iphone lost all its contacts last Thursday. I presumed that it was because I had let the battery run flat (was using GPS while cycling). The weird thing there was that I had about 33 contacts left, all the others had gone.

I could not see how to make the text message fix work as when I scroll to the top of the text message I just get 'call' 'facetime' and 'add to contacts'

There is no contact >

I had all my text messages remaining and so for each of them I added the contacts manually. It was a bit long winded but it worked and I retained a lot of my contacts.

Then, being a bit dumb, I thought I would clear out my text messages to tidy things up.

Yesterday I checked my icloud contacts page (thinking I would export a backup of these to help out in the future) and noticed it was empty other than the 'default' contacts

I thought nothing more of this until this morning when all my contacts other than the 3 defaults were removed from the phone.

I am now so ticked off, once is forgiveable but twice is so frustrating

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with the 'contact' fix?

Thank you. Your way seemed much more comprehensive and easy and it worked !!!

Sorry guys.. Suppose everyone got their fix already but...

Like everyone else I recently updated my iPhone and yes... lost all my contacts and apps.

I don't care too much about apps but my contacts.

My situation is...

- I don't have any previous backups.

- My first time using iCloud.

- Tried the whole sim import.

- Tried the edit txt contact and etc.

- Tried windows contacts.

I've pretty much tried all the suggestions provided.

Can anyone give me any other suggestions?

I have AT&T btw.

Thanks.

Sorry Had to copy and paste this fix cos I couldn't remember the exact process but I did the same as below and it was quick and easy, and all my contacts came back so please give the credit to dheleven, because I followed the instructions and it was brilliant....it worked!

dheleven

Same problem. I did the iCloud merge after the iOS 5 update and my contacts were gone, but info under Favorites and Recent were still there.

What I did was turn off iCloud Contacts. It then asks if you want to keep or delete the current contacts on your phone. Since I had no contacts anyways because they were missing, I hit delete. I went back into Contacts but there was nothing. Then I turned on iCloud Contacts again and went into Contacts. All of my original contacts prior to the update re-appeared.

Note: Ensure that you're connected to Wi-Fi especially if you decided to turn the "Use Cellular" off under iCloud Documents & Data.

I hope this helps you guys.

they are just gone

I have the same trouble. My contact list and even the names on messages were all gone. But when I use WhatsApp, the name appeared on the pop up screens but gone again when I go into the program. Does that mean my phone still has the contact in them? Does anyone know how to fix that? I've tried all the methods listed here but nothing worked. Please help 😟. Please.

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Hi, your advice seemed promising. How do you do step 1?

I have never connected my phone to a computer. Is this a problem?

Getting desperate!

Here's what I did...restored to a previous iphone update from April by right clicking on my phone icon in itunes. Then I restored again to the restore from today where I lost everything. For some reason when I did this, my phone was properly updated and I had all my old contacts, photos, everything! I'm so relieved!

It did not help for me

How about if you had three IPhones and didn't back it up could you still get your things like phots etc.?

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! I got back most of my contacts.... I thought it was all gone

when i tried to restore using my recent backup i received an error message that said "an error occurred." i'm currently downloading the new mac ios for my macbook pro to get into the cloud and turn it off there to see if my contacts come back. but i'm thinking at this point i'm s.o.l. any thoughts?