How to Recover Deleted iPhone Contacts

Do you need to recover deleted contact from iPhone?As we all know,the contacts are important to everyone because you are not one person and you are related to other persons. Especially some people are important to you, such as families, friends, colleagues, teachers, clients, and so on. But when your iPhone was stolen, or lost the contacts of iPhone due to no backup, what can you do for retrieving the lost contacts?

This iPhone Contact Recovery can recover the lost or deleted contacts in easy ways. Besides recovering contacts from iTunes backups, iPhone Contact Recovery can also help to scan and retrieve contacts directly from your iPhone 5S/5/4S/4/3GS, if you didn't lose your iPhone. Let's check detailed steps with the Windows version of iPhone Contact Recovery.

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Directly recover contacts from iPhone (with iPhone 5S/5/4S/4/3GS)

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the computer
 If you didn't lose your iPhone, you can also use this way to retrieve your contacts. Connect your iPhone to the computer and run the iPhone Contacts Recovery to your computer, then an interface as follow will appear.
I. For iPhone 5/4S users (iPhone 4/3GS user can skip this to next)
 There is only a "Start Scan" button on the main window. After connecting your iPhone, you only need to click the "Start Scan" button to scan your iPhone. You'll see this scanning window immediately after clicking the "Start Scan" button.

Connect your iPhone to the computer

II. For iPhone 4/3GS user
A. Connect your device to the computer with a digital cable and run the program, then you'll see the window below after connecting your device. You need to download a plug-in by clicking the "Download" button.

B. Enter DFU mode to scan your device
 After downloading the plug-in, you need to get into thed device's scanning mode before scanning. You can follow the steps below:
1) Hold your iPhone and click the "Start" button.
2) Pressing the "Power" and "Home" buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
3) After 10 seconds, release the "Power" button, but keep holding "Home" for another 15 seconds.

Enter DFU mode to scan your device

Step 2: Preview and recover iPhone contacts
 After the scan, you can preview all found data before recovery. Choose "Contacts" to preview, mark it and click "Recover", you can save all the contents on your computer with one click.

 

Preview and recover iPhone contacts

Note: Data found here includes deleted data and those still on your iPhone. If you only want back your deleted ones, you can refine the scan result by using the slide button at bottom to only display deleted items.

Part 2: Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone contacts (without iPhone)

Restore data from iTunes backs up to get your iPhone contacts back
As an iPhone user, who tends to manage the content of iPhone with iTunes, must know that iTunes backs up everything of your iPhone first when you sync with it. This will be the warmest thing when you lost your contacts from iPhone. The bad point is that the backup file is not regular file type, but a SQlitedb file, which is not allowed to preview, even access. Sometimes it's encrypted, just for private safe.

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