I lost all of my contacts on my iphone by deleting them unknowingly. I cannot back these up from the icloud website as it says there are no archives of my contacts available. I believe there should be archives available.
I do not have a back up of my contacts on iTunes so icloud is my only hope to retrieve these contacts.
iPhone 4S
Deirdre,
Have you gone to iCloud.com>Settings?
In that location you should find and "Advanced" section which has a "Restore Contacts" selection.
Were they perhaps tied to an email account?
One that you may have changed a password to or removed from your phone?
Hi Ferd II, I have tried this but when I select Restore Contacts it tells me there are no archives available.
I am certain that there should be archives available but there does not appear to be any available on icloud
Hi bryan.vance
The email address that there are linked to has not changed nor has the password for this account.
Hi Christinaci
I had already tried this and had no luck - I think this might be linked to the fact that there are no archives available in iCloud when I try to restore my contacts in the advanced settings.
To put more context on how this issue occurred. I have two apple devices that both use the same iTunes account (i.e. same email). On one of the devices (call it device A) I deleted all of the contacts as they were the contacts that already existed on my main iphone (call it device B) hence I did not need them in two places. Later that when I looked at my main iphone (device B) all of the contacts were gone!
Now when I look in iCloud I can only see the contacts that I kept on device A - there is no sign of any of the contacts I had previously on device B. I am certain that iCloud previously had all of the contacts from device B.
Thanks
Lee
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