Contacts are missing

noticed some of my contacts are missing and the ones in my favorites just show numbers- names are missing.how can i get my contacts back?

Clarissacuevas you need have to do some things to get all of the contacts over to iCloud.
1.check in settings-mail, contacts, and calendar and scroll down to contacts and see where your contacts are being synced.
2. Check in settings-mail and see what emails are backing up your contacts.
3. If in mail, contacts, and calendar you need to change the default account in the contacts tab to iCloud. Then go back to the settings and turn off the contacts and turn it back on to sync all contacts up there.
If that doesn't work then you need to import your contacts to iCloud through a web browser on a computer. Exporting your contacts and importin the to icloud should fix that issue.
Hope this helps. Let me know if this works.

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Thanks, but I checked iCloud and it has none of them.
If it backed up to my laptop, that died and I just got the new computer. The one that's crashed won't even boot, so there's no way to even tell if it was syncing the contacts along with all the phone photos. Literally happened at the same time - it was because I had the new computer that I was finally able to pull the photos off the phone and make room for the upgrade. It had refused to upgrade for lack of space for some time.
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