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sosoash
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Q: I delete some of my contacts from iphone4 and it was deleted my contacts from my iphone5 how I can bring my contacts back again?

How I can bring back my deleted contacts back again

iPhone 4, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on May 25, 2013 2:19 PM

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sosoash

Q: I delete some of my contacts from iphone4 and it was deleted my contacts from my iphone5 how I can bring my contacts back again?

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 May 25, 2013 2:53 PM in response to sosoash
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    May 25, 2013 2:53 PM in response to sosoash

    iCloud works by storing contacts and other data on the server; your computers and devices which are signed into iCloud read the data from its server. If you think of it as being like webmail it makes it simpler to visualize.

     

    Therefore, when you delete a contact on one of your devices you are actually deleting it from the server, which is why the other device - which is accessing the server - also sees it as deleted.

     

    if you have deleted a contact from the iCloud server it's not retrievable. Only if you have a separate backup - perhaps by having made an iCloud backup of one of your phones - can you restore deleted contacts: when you restore a backup you restore the entire backup, you can't just nominate to restore individual data items.

     

    Therefore you would need to export any contacts you have added since the deletion - this is best done on a Mac - so that you can restore from that; because if you restore an earlier version of your iPhone you will lose all data added later than the backup, and the probability is that that will be mirrored in the other devices.