How do I restore contacts from icloud to my iphone?

thats what i unfortunatly did and now i dont have any contact on my iphon eather on my mac.

it seems im in deep ....

Thanks for the feedback. May I just trouble for detailed steps, to restore contacts from iCloud where on the iPhone do I log in? On what screen and what point? I think I'm missing a step. If I could trouble you for the detailed fool proof steps id greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time,

DA

You needed to log out of iCloud first, by deleting and being logged it updated iCloud as well.

Lungs thank you. You are a genius thanks to your tip I was able to recover all my husband's contacts.

Can anyone help me.

I think i turned on icloud contacts. Later i plugged in my phone to itunes and in the morning i realized that i had only 5 contacts left.

How can i restore all of them?

Thank you so much! I get really confused about backing things up on my iphone and I am fairly new to the mac book computers, so I am LEARNING! I guess I need to invest in a book to explain the whole process to me. I have a PC background, so I don't understand a lot about how to do things on the iPhone, iPad or the Mac Book. Your guidance was so accurate, easy to follow and rescued me from DEVASTATION!

Thank You Lungs!

I bow to your genius, but have what I hope is not a moronic question. I discovered this morning, as I was walking out the door in uniform and my child barfed all over me, that my a selection of phone numbers, including that of my boss and the Command Duty Officer (both of whom I had to call at that moment!), had disappeared from my phone. A seemingly random selection of contacts have almost completely disappeared. They ARE in iCloud, however. I tried the fix you describe, merging and all, but nothing seemed to change -- weird, no? I say "almost completely disappeared" because for some reason, since my boss called me, he shows up under "Recent Calls" as what appears to be a contact -- but he's absent from Contacts. Frustrating as heck.

Any ideas? Should I choose the delete option when I turn off Contacts in iCloud under settings?

The help rep told me I had to wipe everything on the phone and restore from iCloud, but I have no idea what I'll get then!

So here's an update -- I'm not sure why, but something just wouldn't let a set of contacts merge onto my phone! I have many more than 47 contacts on my phone. iCloud only had 47. Most of those 47 (possibly all -- I didn't have the patience to check) had somehow disappeared from my phone in the last few weeks (yet I still had many many others). I tried the off/on merge trick described above to no avail many times. Then I thought I was squirrely and exported them all as a .vcf file from iCloud, and emailed them to myself. When I chose to add them all to contacts, but "merge" them rather than "create new" -- I got nothing! But once I told them to add via "create new," they appeared. Phew. At least I know I have that subset that was on iCloud. The next few weeks may tell if others disappeared. It might help if I cleaned out my contacts from time to time....

What if I need to restore the very first backup of contact list?

I have done all the steps in thi post and still can't get my contacts. Can anyone help me.

thank you LUNGS !!!!!!!

THANK YOU Lungs!

My daughter mistakenly deleted my Husband's and my contacts that she didn't want (yes, she was using our Apple ID). I did a restore from a previous iCloud backup but the old contacts did not come back. Any ideas ??? She deleted about 200 contacts.

Is there any computer that syncs Contacts with your iCloud account? If yes turn it on WITHOUT INTERNET CONNECTION.