How do I restore contacts from icloud to my iphone?

Hi Lungs,

Please advise me with this. I turned on contacts on icloud in settings but all my contacts disappeared after that. However, i have not set up i cloud before. How do i restore them??

Here i briefly demonstrate how to restore contacts from iCloud:

Go Settings->iCloud on your phone and disable the “Contacts”.

When prompted with the message asking you what to do with previously synced contacts, choose “keep on my phone”.

Then turn on the Contacts, and choose “merge” on the pop up window.

Then you should see all your missing contacts sitting nicely on your contact app.

Thanks a lot Lungs...

You have saved my days of losing my whole contacts on my iPhone

Hi Lungs,

It doesn't work for me. Do you know any other options?

I just lost all my contacts today, without changing any settings and without updating my phone or anything.

Annekee

Thank you. This worked for me. I have just got a new ISP so had to change my apple id. I lost my contacts and all calendar entries. I signed out of iCloud on iPhone 6 in >settings >iCloud. I then logged into my iTunes account on my mac and "restored from last back up" and it restored everything. Very relieved.

I tried exactly what you said and it did not restore my contacts…. I hooked my iPhone to my iMac and in iTunes it says i backed up my phone to iCloud the other day but to my computer in november 2014 and when i clicked restore it tried to restore to the 2014 backup on my computer….. I'm so not technologically inclined. I really am kinda dumb for computers but for Jeopardy and Wheel Of Fortune I kick butt! I need one phone number I deleted back and can't seem to get it. Someone please help me!

It worked for me too. Thank you Lungs!

I have tried this but it doesn't work...

I've checked my icloud account but it's empty

what shall I do????

Hi all

I was trying to follow lungs instructions. I can turn off contacts in "settings" "Icloud" but I can't see any "keep" or "merge" buttons to do the rest of the process. Can anyone help? Thanks

Thank youuuuuu!!!

Lungs! You're still saving lives with this brilliant fix 3 years later! TIMELESS....Thank you so much

Hi Lungs,

Thank you so much!

Worked like a dream.. Thanks Lungs. Saved me a lot of time.🙂

If you had the backup file on your computer it might be possible using 3rd party software to extract the app data for a specific app from the backup and copy it back to the iphone (for example, see http://www.techsummary.in/windows-software/how-to-retrieve-icloud-password/msg10 092/?topicseen#msg10092 ), however this wouldn't be possible if your only backup is in iCloud. As far as I know there is no mechanism to do anything other than restore the entire backup from iCloud.

Thanks so much!!!