My iPhone was stolen and I need help finding out how to retrieve my contacts. I know my phone performed a backup every day, but I can't find my backed up info. Also, wanted to know if that backup included any media or if that was only if you connected your phone directly to your computer.
iPhone 4, iPhone Stolen
Assuming you backed your phone up in iTunes, the backup is intended to be used to restore all the contents of an iPhone onto another iPhone (or the same one if you need to restore from backup). If you get a new iPhone, then you can restore one of your earlier backups of the old phone onto your new phone.
The backed up info will be in iTunes. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109. If you follow these steps, on step 4 you'll see a list of your previous backups, identified by date and time. You'd just select the last backup you did.
I don't know how you can extract just a piece of that backup, like just the contacts, although it might be possible. That might be a genius question. When you look at the actual files that are in the backup, it's incomprehensible.
Believe it or not your contacts have been saved in your address book on the computer.
How do I retrieve my contacts if my phone was stolen?
