I had to reset my new 5s and restore from iTunes. I have everything back on my phone now, but my Contacts Icon is missing from my desktop. I can access My Contacts from My Messages and from My Phone and I can see it when I search for it, but I want a copy of it on my desktop. How do I do that?
iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.3
Hi vickiandlarry,
You cannot delete the Contact app from your device, so it is there somewhere....
Check Settings>General>Restrictions, and make sure that Contacts is not set to "Don't Allow Changes"
Do a Spotlight Search (swipe up in the middle of the Home screen) and type in Contacts to see if it may have been accidently put into a folder (the folder name will show up when it finds the listing)
Check each of your Home screens to make sure it is not on one of them - keep swiping to the left to make sure you don't have one sitting out there with just the Contacts on it at the end of the set of Home screens
If all else fails, you can go to Settings>General>Reset, and click on "Reset Home Screen Layout". That will reset all of your icons in their orignal order, and will put the Contacts (along with all of the other Apple iPhone apps) on the first Home screen
Cheers,
GB
Hi vickiandlarry,
You cannot delete the Contact app from your device, so it is there somewhere....
Check Settings>General>Restrictions, and make sure that Contacts is not set to "Don't Allow Changes"
Do a Spotlight Search (swipe up in the middle of the Home screen) and type in Contacts to see if it may have been accidently put into a folder (the folder name will show up when it finds the listing)
Check each of your Home screens to make sure it is not on one of them - keep swiping to the left to make sure you don't have one sitting out there with just the Contacts on it at the end of the set of Home screens
If all else fails, you can go to Settings>General>Reset, and click on "Reset Home Screen Layout". That will reset all of your icons in their orignal order, and will put the Contacts (along with all of the other Apple iPhone apps) on the first Home screen
Cheers,
GB
You find Contacts in a folder named Extras in the second page by default.
Hi ckuan,
Am I missing something? I have iOS 7 on my iPhone 4, and my contacts were not defaulted to any sort of folder. Is that something that is specific to the iPhone 5s and 5c designs?
Just curious 😀
Cheers,
GB
It's the default location on new phones. When the 5 came out, the default location was a folder called Utilities (where I've left mine because why do I need a separate app when I can get to contacts through Phone?). If the OP reset their new iPhone 5S, that's where it would be.
Best of luck.
Thanks Meg! That is good to know! I appreciate your posting back with the info 🙂.
Cheers,
GB
What Meg said. On the latest model Contacts is in Extras.
gail from maine wrote:
Thanks Meg! That is good to know! I appreciate your posting back with the info 🙂.
Anything for you, Gail!
😍
GB
Thank you very much, I had all my contact just couldn't find the icon.
Contact folder is not found even after resetting the home screen twice. Siri can't find it either. Also lost my mail icon at the same time.
You may have deleted them. Go to the App Store and do a search on Apple Contacts and Apple Mail, and if they say Install or Get, click on that to re-download them.
Cheers,
GB
I can't get my contacts icon out of extras folder
Why not? What happens when you try?
GB
How do I get my contacts icon back on my desktop in my 5S
