iPhone reading list/bookmarks gone

Ocean20 wrote:

When you say the reading list /bookmarks are gone I assume you mean from Safari. IF so I had that happen. Try closing safari and then have a look to see if they are back. with safari opne on the screen tap the home button once then tap home button twice and then hold the safari app icon in the multitasking area until it wiggles and then tap on the minus sign top left of the safari icon. this will close it

Oh, it work well! Thanks so much! I have already got back my iPhone data.

Omg! Thank you, thank you for having had this problem!!! I was freaking out 20 mins ago when my bookmarks were just gone too! I just want to say thanks GagamusPrime for saying EXACTLY what I wanted to when I tried that that little open then closing trick on safari - the only difference is I really would kiss Cloud20 on the mouth and totally mean it the wrong way! haha Wow, who would have thought some a simple little thing like this would work? Not me, that's for sure 😁 I was totally expecting to find this problem resolved in one of two ways...either "So sorry, but you're SOL" or an absurdly long response about going into my iphone's "guts/operating system" and needing a strong knowledge of computer code or whatever that junk's called in order to find and retrieve the missing bookmarks. LOL I can turn stuff on and off, open and close, restart or reboot all day long! 😀 I wish everything on my mac/iphone/ipad could be resolved this easy! Thanks so much to you and Cloud20 ..... I'm so relieved that I'll even throw in some tongue with the kiss 😝

I was told not to hold down the sleep/ wake button and home button to reset the the iphone or ipad, that it was the same as pulling the plug on the computer and was not safe. I was told this by the genius bar folks on two different occasions. The issue in this discussion is old, I know, but this happened to me this morning on both my iphone 5S and my ipad! The quitting safari on my device and then reopening it brought the reading list back!

thanks

Actually, you can recover lost Safari bookmarks of iPhone in 2 different ways:

If you have ever synced before you deleted data, you can scan and extract iTunes backup to recover Safari bookmark from your iPhone.

If you don't synced, you can directly scan and recover deleted bookmarks from your iPhone. However, you need the help of iPhone recovery tool, otherwise you will not be able to do.

I hope it can help you!

This worked for me too thank you!

Thanks Ocean20, I had this happen to me today on my 6S (iOS 10.0.2). All favourites were gone!

I had to turn my iphone off and on again and they all came back!

Whew....

My bookmarks disappeared also. I tried all of the easy fixes so I opened safari, typed in a website and bookmarked it. All of my bookmarks showed up after that. Worked for me.

Hey I just lost all my bookmarks it just disappeared when I woke up but how do I do what worked for you

I tried your advise but sadly it doesn't work. My bookmarks and others have not been recovered... I'm quite depressed now.

I'm sorry, but I've tried more than 10 times and it still doesn't work! I'm just going wait weeks and see what happens....(sigh)