How to recover iPhone contacts lost after IOS 7 upgrade?

Sorry, but you can't if you have not synced them to iCloud.

if u ever connected your phone to windows or mac then there will be a backup file ...

restore that file this surely help yoou

You can recover them but you need to pay some money for some iphone data recovery software. So if your messages and contacts are not so important, just give up.

This happened to me this morning...I have spent hours reading and literally doing everything that people suggest as well as webpages on google. Nothing at all has worked. I have even tried to just create new contact and after 2 seconds the name disappears and ony shows the number again. The weird part is it is only the numbers I have added for the last year. My iCloud synced last night and when I got online to check my iCloud contacts a few minutes ago, they had disappeared in there as well. I have spent too much time on this so I'm going into a store tomorrow. I am open to more suggestions and hope you all have better luck!

jschweiss wrote:

My iCloud synced last night and when I got online to check my iCloud contacts a few minutes ago, they had disappeared in there as well. I have spent too much time on this so I'm going into a store tomorrow. I am open to more suggestions and hope you all have better luck!

No it did not, an iCloud connection is a realtime connection, there is no sync. It reads the contacts from the iCloud server and displays them on the phone, assuming that they actually are in iCloud.

None of this makes sense to me at all! Someone else is telling me that is does have to be synced. To be honest my phone is all jacked up- I have changed nothing since the last update. Worked perfectly until 9 am this morning.

Go to the Apple Store.

if you have backup you can recover them

sign in to your phone with the pervious id and sync your iCloud contacts

udittehri wrote:

if you have backup you can recover them

sign in to your phone with the pervious id and sync your iCloud contacts

Sync is NOT Backup, Sync and Backup are seperate and different things, that's why they have different names.

And you replied to a post that is over 2 years old, I doubt that the question is still waiting for a solution.

That is the reason why you should be using icloud instead of just on the phone. Backups have been a number one priority ever since the first computer was made.

Brilliant!! Worked 1st time. Thanks 🙂