How do I restore contacts from icloud to my iphone?

Hey LUNG Thanks

This solved my problem of several contacts missing.

Sure was aproblem yesyerday as I traveled without the phone numbers of serveral contacts.

Lungs, I took your advice on restoring contacts via icloud to the iphone. It worked and I thank you for it. If I can do it anyone can.

Thanks again.

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Some of the contacts on my iphones got deleted via icloud. My mum deleted the contacts from her iphone that was connected to the same icloud id. The new contacts wernt sync to the icloud. How do i get these contacts back please help.

ok so i am fixing to reset my phone to factory cause i have been having issues with my iphone the last coupls of months so was told the best way to fix it is to do a master reset i tried doing just a basic reset and it didnt work, but my ? is since all my contacts are backed up on icloud i should be ok? another ? would be what about my apps and my notes i have on the phone its weird cause i know my notes save to my email but will they be gone from even there was i reset,

Lungs, Thank you. I thought I had lost 5 years of contacts (over 2000) with all the associated data. I just hope everything comes back as it is syncing back from iCloud right now. I had no idea when I checked the box to sync to iCloud that it would delete everything off my phone and out of Outlook.

Thank you Lung. That did the trick🙂

Thank you very much this also worked for me

why cant apple have a button next to contacts in iclous just to say restore contacts to phone ?

cheers Lungs

The response posted by Lungs continues to work perfectly. Thank you for saving me from a potential ordeal.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the additional tip!

Lungs, this worked great ... For some reason, all my contacts just disappeared ... I read about four articles on "restore" and finally ran across your post ... Whew ... Obviously, some posters do not understand the difference between "BackUp" and "Restore". Thanks for taking the time to post this simple but effective solution. ST

thanks a ton Lungs🙂 m so relieved.. u r a genious

HI I have just got a new I phone 5. I have so many old contact which I have deleted from my list of contact on icloud. I now want that updated list to be on my phone and all the old ones which i have deleted gone. How do i do this? Please help!!!!

Did you keep an iTunes backup on your computer except for iCloud backup?

I guess you won't be able to restore contacts back from iCloud so far as you have removed them.

Yet you can still recover contacts from iTunes if you have backup on your computer.

I know that some sorts of softwares will be able to this, for example, iTunes Backup Extractor.

It extract and recover lost or deleted photos, videos, contacts, SMS/MMS, call records, voicememos, calendars, notes and Safari bookmarks from .sqlitedb file.

kittowpj,

You need to turn off contacts on your iPhone iCloud settings and say discard regarding keeping contacts on your phone. This will erase all the contacts on your phone (make sure you have a local backup to your computer before doing this). I'm not on ios 7 so if you don't get this message, turn off contacts, log out of iCloud, then manually erase all your contacts on the iPhone but make sure they show up on the iCloud web interface first.

Log back in on your phone, turn on Contacts, your updated list should show in a few.