Methods to retrieve lost contacts on iPhone 7

It’ll always happen that we lost or deleted some contacts on our iPhone, so when you bought a new iPhone 7, you should also know the methods to retrieve lost contacts on iPhone 7, in case you lost some contacts and don’t know the methods how to retrieve them.

No matter what the technology is developed, we’ll still need the contacts on our iPhone, it’s the direct way for us to contact people we attached. So contacts on iPhone are also important to us, and knowing ways to retrieve contacts is a must. Maybe you’ll said you know we can retrieve them from your backups, but what if someone didn’t do any backups? Now follow this page and we’ll show your detailed methods to retrieve lost contacts on iPhone 7.

Retrieve lost contacts on iPhone 7 from your Gmail

If you have synced your contacts on your gmail account, you can retrieve your lost contacts from it.

Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--Mail,Contacts, Calendar--Add Account--Google, then follow the instruction and turn on the Contact option.

Retrieve lost contact on iPhone 7 from iTunes Backup

If you have done backup in iTunes, then we can retireve lost contacts on iPhone 7 from it. And it only supports us to restore the whole folder, and won’t allow us to restore part of them.

Launching your iTunes, click iPhone image icon, and go to Files--Summary, then all your backup files will be on the left side bar. Click “Restore Backup” on the right page, and confirm with “Restore”.



Retrieve lost contact on iPhone 7 from iCloud Backup

When restore lost iPhone data from iCloud backup. It will need us to erase all content and setttings before restoring, and it doesn’t support us to preview them before restoring.

1.Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase all content and settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

2.Swipe to begin the set up progress with a hello screen, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup” and confirm with “Restore”.



Retrieve lost contacts on iPhone 7 with iRefone

If you don’t do any backup, or you want to restore them from your backups selectively, you can use iRefone to help you with it.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can extract data from your iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows us to preview them before restoring. What’s more, it can recover more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp photos ect.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



1.Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



2.Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Contact” icon, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.



3.Wait a few seconds for scanning and analyzing, then you can preview and choose contacts you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.