Deleted Contact on OSX and now they're gone on iOS - iCloud the answer??
Long story short, I was going through my Contact in the dock of my MacBookPro. As I was doing so, I noticed that many of them were duplicated. Being the anal guy I can be sometimes, I decided to delete them and let the contacts from my iCloud back be used from my iPhone. Unfortunately, when I deleted the contacts in my MBP dock, they also deleted from my iPhone.
... And I don't know how to get them back. I've tried restoring from an iCloud backup (http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521). That didn't solve the Contacts issue. I have tried doing so with 2 separate & different iPhone backups from different dates but neither have worked. What do I do?
"The difficulty in restoring iCloud data from a back up is that the back up is older than the current version on iCloud and anything that is restored gets removed again when an iCloud sync occurs."
What does this mean?
3. Allow the devices settings to restore (watch for the confirmation of completion).
More specifically, when does this occur?
4. As the apps begin to restore pull the connection to your router WAN port (the one that goes to the telephone point).
Same as the question in #3, when is this?
... THANKS!
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