Can I recover info from a Contact?

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Can I recover info from a Contact?

While using my iPad, I accidentally deleted some information from the "note" portion of a Contact.

This deletion automatically updated on my iMac and my iMac, so I've lost that information everywhere.

Is there some way to recover that 'note' info?

(Fwiw, I do use Time Machine. I looked in my Time Machine backup but did not see my Contacts list. I only could find the Contact Application itself. Maybe I did not know where/how to find the lost information in Time Machine)

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

iMac, Mac user since 1984

Posted on Mar 28, 2018 2:28 PM

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larrybobba Author

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Apr 13, 2018 9:39 AM in response to Tesserax

I called 1-800-myapple and they steered me towards this solution.

open icloud.com in your browser
log in
select Settings from dropdown menu located beneath your user name in upper right corner
in the next window, select Restore Contacts in the Advanced section located in lower left of window
select the date from those offered in the archive list

Tip: Only the the recent 2 to 3 weeks of Contacts are archived so if you're needing data older than that (like I was) you're out of luck.

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Tesserax

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Mar 28, 2018 3:05 PM in response to larrybobba

See if any of the following articles can be useful as tutorials:

Use Time Machine to back up or restore a Mac - Apple Support
macOS Sierra: Back up with Time Machine - Apple Support
Complete guide to Time Machine - Macworld

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Tesserax

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Mar 28, 2018 2:46 PM in response to larrybobba

Have you tried running the Contacts app and while leaving it running on the desktop enter the Time Machine interface from the Time Machine icon on the macOS menu bar? You should be able to move back into time to see if any of the previous contact cards have the now missing data.

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larrybobba Author

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Mar 28, 2018 2:51 PM in response to Tesserax

Thanks for that suggestion. However, I still cannot find the deleted data.

I opened Contacts. Then opened Time Machine. While in Time Machine, when I would search for the affected Contact, the desktop would close Time Machine and revert back to real-time.

I may be incorrectly doing something which is very basic. Is there a tutorial to which I should look at for instruction?

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