iPhone reading list/bookmarks gone

Well, you might still have chances to recover the deleted iPhone bookmarks. Not from iPhone or iTunes, just from your Mac machine. It just depends on when your deletion happens, before or after your most recent sync? If this happened after that, then probably you could rely on this data recovery program to get the lost bookmarks back. Regards

Thank you! Just happened to me after the iOS 6.1.3 update and I, too, freaked out! So glad they're back... so much info to lose! Thanks again, so very much appreciated!! :)

Hooray. Thank you so much. This worked perfectly for me.

This happened to me on my iPad. I've reported it via Apples feedback form, hopefully they may fix it if other people can report it too. I think the URL is apple.com/feedback

Worked for me too. Many thanks!!!

This just happened with my iPhone, too. I tried all the fixes you did. Shutting down Safari worked. I am happy that I did not lose the bookmarks I had added to my iPhone with the help of iPhone Bookmark Recovery.

Check more from: http://www.recovery-android.com

How to Recover iPhone reading list/bookmarks

THANK YOU!!

This has happened to me as well, but force closing Safari has not fixed it.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thank you, this worked for me this morning!!!

My bookmarks disappeared after restoring from a backup to a new iPhone 5 through iTunes. (I got my old one replaced when a button stopped working). I figured something with the restore got messed up, and I just went ahead and started repopulating my bookmarks list from scratch. But a few days later they all disappeared again.

I tried all of the prescribed remedies with no luck.

-I tried killing the safari app.

-I tried killing ALL of the running apps.

-I tried turning off/on the iPhone.

-I tried a hard restart.

No luck.

So after basically giving up, I decided to turn on iCloud backup for Safari so that if this happened again, I could at least hopefully retrieve my bookmarks from iCloud.

After doing this, all of my bookmarks that I had on my OLD phone before restoring to the new one reappeared. :-D

So I don't know if this maybe all had to do with the iCould setting on the new phone being set incorrectly by the Genius at the Apple store, or if it's just a weird bug, or what. But turning on iCloud backup for Safari worked for me in restoring my bookmarks.

Many weeks after having given up on getting my bookmarks back, I re-enabled iCloud Safari syncing as you mentioned in your comment and it successfully merged my old bookmarks with the ones I've added since my post in June when they were lost.

So thanks for mentioning this!

I had disabled and enabled iCloud syncing for Safari several times when my bookmarks first disappeared with no result. I also had iCloud syncing on for Safari *when* they disappeared.

If I had to guess, I would bet that there was some sort of problem with iCloud and Safari bookmarks where it pushed out an empty set of bookmarks to my iPhone and that my bookmarks were effectively zeroed out, but then at some point later the conflict between my full/old bookmarks and the zero set were resolved internally within iCloud in the two months since I first posted about this. It does not seem like a very trustworthy service for stuff like this, since there is zero transparency.

Excellent. Worked for me too. Not sure why I did not try this before googling.

Definitely not a cloud thing, I don't cloud.

Thanks.

chriscarries wrote:

This just happened with my iPhone, too. I tried all the fixes you did. Shutting down Safari worked. I am happy that I did not lose the bookmarks I had added to my iPhone with the help of iPhone Bookmark Recovery.

Check more from: http://www.recovery-ipad.com

How to Recover iPhone reading list/bookmarks

Unfortunately, if you didn't have any backups, that data is probably gone for good. File recovery software probably won't help, though it can't hurt to try. It's possible that Safari created a new Bookmarks.plist file in a temporary folder, wrote the changes to it, then deleted the old one and replaced it with the new one. (I'm not sure whether it would use that technique internally, or would just open the file, write the changes to it and then close it again.) If it does work that way, the old one may still be present and not overwritten. I wouldn't say that's likely, though. Try it with Data Rescue and see what you get.

This should be your cue to start backing up ASAP, before you lose something more important!

does this delete everything off the phone or does it just restart it?? because my bookmarks and reading list has disappeared and i did everything you said up there but theyre still gone..

You mean you want to recover your iPhone bookmarks, right? If so, you can try iPubsoft iPhone Backup Extractor, which can help you recover iPhone bookmarks, as well as voice memos, calendar, reminders, etc.