All contacts lost for no reason on iPhone 4S. How do I get them back?

I have lost my contacts on my iPhone 4S. I was in my home using it for a game, when I went to make a call and realized all of my favorites didn't have names, only listed them by their numbers. I went into all my contacts and nothing was listed. I have my phone backed up. However I'd rather not just fix the issue but also know why this happened. Thank you in advance.

This might be because that your game update or other software automatic update killed your contacts. You should make a frequency and regular backup for your iPhone so that all the data could be renewed to your backup data. Whenever you lost iPhone data, you have a choice to restore from iTunes. That is easy and free.
However, this is not the end of the world if you don't have any backup of your iPhone contacts, you can recover contacts with iPhone data recovery software, but that need you to pay for it. So making a backup is a good habit.  Do you know how to use iPhone data recovery software to recover iPhone contacts without backup? If not, you can search in YouTube to get step-by-step guide to recover iPhone contacts from iPhone without backup. This is such an example: How to Recover iPhone Contacts - Step-by-step Guide.

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