iPhone contacts missing - no names, only numbers

Try this first: Enter a random number like 555-555-1212 and send a text to it. Then add that as a contact. If you're like me, immediately after adding that number as a contact all of your other contacts will suddenly return. I know it's random, but after nothing else worked I gave it a shot - and in 10 seconds I was back to normal.

Good luck!

Hi,

Same thing happen to me, after editing a contact number and name, i realize that all names of my contacts are not gone, however, the number exist in my fav.

I tried all options, like deleting exhange, turn off contact, nothing worked for me. Any help will be highly appreciated

Amazing...it worked. Thank you!

THANK-YOU

well, I am in the same boat. just updated bunch of software via Wifi . Days later i found most of my contacts were missing. I have carefully went through all solution one by one and had no luck,

I have i Cloud backup (obviously)

two gmail contact accounts.

one exchange account.

someone help me please. what can i do. 😟

Thank you so much for posting how to handle that problem.

Thank you! It worked!

It sort of worked for me. I just added the name to one of the unnamed people on my favorites list and then all the other names started appearing again. I also had to verify my account and sign up with iCloud again. I don't think I am going to so easily update my phone again. I just spent 2 hours trying to figure it out.

This helped

Or what I did was I used one of the numbers in my text messages that I knew and tried to add their contact. It then prompted me for my icloud account password and loaded all my contacts again.

Some of the advice has stated to make sure your contacts is "on" in your settings but for my case even when they were shown "on" my contacts didn't load. Doing the above or if you're lazy and don't want to enter a random number work as well!

Yes just delete the message thread of the contacts you're having the issue with and it will be fixed 100%

i could correct it, lea

any help out there

I deleted an email account. It was an outlook account. Not sure why or how it was linked to my contacts but once I added it back, all of my info was restored. Weird.

Hi Alice