How do I restore contacts from icloud to my iphone?

thanks Lungs!! just restored my contacts!!! Superb!!

Lungs - your wisdom is much appreciated! But can you help me?

BUT I'm afraid to delete icloud as it says my photostream photos will be deleted from my phone. I don't appear to have any saved on icloud.com that I can tell. my icloud backup IS ON to back up the camera roll, etc. but when I log in on the .com, viewing my photos isn't even an option / there is no icon.

I did log out of my account via settings/itunes app store, and log back in, but nothing. No option to "merge" has ever appeared. Am I missing something simple? Anyone help?

I'm on an iphone 4s, new this summer but this is the first fail I've had.
Also for what it's worth I have a "Backup assistant app" that theorhetically has my contacts too, but I don't know how to get to those, either.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I've tried everything to restore my phone contacts from iCloud to my iPhone. I turned off contacts/deleted from phone, turned back on contacts, but they aren't there. Any other ideas?

Disregard. I turned my phone off and back on again, then turned contacts off/delete from phone, turned contacts back on and there they are!

This solved my question - Thank you Lungs!

Same thing, different order - contacts off, back on...nothing. Then phone off, back on, contacts are there.

Favorites are still the numbers, not names, except the ones I've called since my contacts first went missing are OK.

Lungs,

Thanks so much! Some of my contacts came back, but not all (ironically none of my kids... maybe I should take that as a blessing 🙂).

Any ideas on getting them all back?

Fan

TWO MINUTES LATER: Okay, they're all back (even my kids...sigh). Thanks again for the tips. You saved the day! 🙂

Thanks worked perfect

Hi

I turned on and off my contacts 20 times but nothing happens. it does't ask me anything like if i want to keep or merge. is there anything i'm doing wrong?

Remember to make sure you are logged into your apple ID. I just did this about 15 min ago and had the same problem as you. So I backtracked on this feed and saw that you have to be logged in first. That made all the difference. I just downloaded a new free app from the app store to log in. Hope this helps.

Lungs you a life saver thanks!

Yay, thank you so much. Worked for me!

Thank you so much I have my contacts back!

I did everything posted here to restore my iphone contacts list from iCloud, but still it didnt work. Then, after completing the Merge process at Setup>iCloud, I powered down my iphone and powered it back on. That did the trick, and all my old contacts reappeared.....