Hi I lost all my contacts etc on my Iphone 4 how can I retrieve them from Icloud?, Hi I lost all my contacts etc on my Iphone 4 how can I retrieve them from Icloud?

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I lost all my contacts etc on my Iphone 4, how can I retrieve them from Icloud, and how can I check the content of my Icloud backup copy?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Your back up via iCloud is only for use for restoring your phone after wiping it. You can't inspect or utilise specific parts of the back up.

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I set up iCloud on pc, ipad etc was asked to copy contacts to iCloud and have lost all the settings and groups that they were in for over 2000. Can I get it back?

I have Outlook on my PC and thought it would be smart to have my contact in the Clouds where my ipad, work pc, home pc would be updated etc. So I was asked I though to copy my contacts from Outlook to iCloud. Instead it moved them and in doing so lost all the settings like Categories and reset how they are listed (used first name because have a lot of drs, phds, msws etc) now listed with last name and so I have a lot of people with md as last name. This is an organization list and is about 2000 contacts so having to go back and fix it will be a nightmare and unnecessary work.
Is there any way I can fix this easily instead of correcting each contact one at a time?
Thanks.

Restore your backup.

I decided to backup for the first time with icloud yesterday, and lost all my phone contacts! I am panicking, because the backup says 0, and I checked the internet account on my pc, and it's only showing email addresses from my hotmail account. What to do

I decided to backup for the first time with icloud yesterday, and lost all my phone contacts! I am panicking because the backup is saying 0 and I checked the internet account on my pc,and it's only showing email addresses from my hotmail account. What to do? How to recover them!

Have they also gone from iCloud.com when you log in from a computer.

I have an iphone 5 and use verizon service. I just lost about 60% of my contacts. I am using verizon back-up assist to sync my contacts. I actually had to have my phone reset at the store and lost all my app etc. I want to avoid this in the future.

I have an iphone 5 and just suddenly lost about 60% of my contact list. They just disappeared from my contact list. I also could not add new contacts. Someone told me that it might be because I was using verizon back up assist. I had my phone reset at the store and am now using icloud. I lost all my apps and have had to manually re-enter my contacts. I would like to avoid this happening again. Is it my phone? Can anyone comment. Thank you!

Backup your iPhone. Tap Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > > Back Up Now
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ICloud on my phone, and I want to delete his iCloud account, without losing all my data, including, my apps, contacts, calendar events, music. If I delete his account, will I still have everything saved from before?

My nephew set up his own iCloud account on my phone, and I want to delete his iCloud account, without losing all my data, including, my apps, contacts, calendar events, music. If I delete his account, will I still have everything saved from before deleting his account?? I don't want to lose a single thing...I'm afraid to delete his iCloud account, and risk losing EVERYTHING I have on my phone. Is there another way to save everything without the risk of losing everything from deleting his iCloud account?

Deleting the iCloud account from your phone only deletes the account and any data you are syncing with the account (that is, any data that is set to On in Settings>iCloud). However, when you delete the account you are prompted about what to do with the iCloud data. If you want to keep it on your phone, be sure to choose Keep on My iPhone when prompted. Also, be sure to save any photo stream photos that are not in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else before deleting the account. To do this, open the photo stream album, tap Edit, tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll.
Deleting the account will not touch any other data on your phone (music, apps, etc.).

TS3988 My wife bought an iPad Air and synced contact from our PC (Outlook), now all our contacts in Outlook have gone and we have to go to iCloud to get them, and even then they are a bit jumbled. How do I get my data back onto my PC?

My wife bought an iPad Air and synced contact from our PC (Outlook), now all our contacts in Outlook have gone and we have to go to iCloud to get them, and even then they are a bit jumbled. How do I get my data back onto my PC?

If you can see the iCloud contacts in Outlook, you can copy them back to your PC by selecting all the contacts (click one, then press Control-A), then drag and drop the selected contacts to Contacts under My Contacts on the left sidebar of Outlook.
If you want to copy your calendar back to Outlook, select your iCloud calendar on the left sidebar of Outlook, switch to the list view (select View from the ribbon, then click Change View>List), select your events (click on a single event, then press Control-A), then control drag and drop them to Calendar under My Calendars on the left sidebar.
Then you can sign out of iCloud on the iCloud control panel and your local copies will still be there. If you want to add your iCloud email account back to iCloud, you can do this with these settings: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864.

Deleted contacts from iphone 4s, loaded new contacts from to phone from .csv file. then I enabled icloud and it put all my old contacts back.

My wife and I both have Iphones. For the past 18 months her phone and mine had the same appleID (mine). When I set up iCLoud backups and synch a month ago, my wifes phone ended up with all my contacts (1400+) and her's (<100) mixed together. Didn't bother me, but drover her wild trying to find 'her' contacts.
Oviously she needed to have her own appleID on her phone.
After a lot of googling around I found the "Import Export Contacts" app. It works great. I opens a Service to a browser screen on a computer and can upload/download to/from the phone.
I downloaded my copy of the combined contact list. I found her's reletively easily by sorting on 'date changes' column.
On her phone I deleted the contact file. and set up her own appleID
I created a .csv with her contacts only and moved it into her phone. then set up the phone to manage contacts in the icloud properties screen.
All her (and my) contacts came back. I thought when I deleted the contacts on her phone, the iclud synch woudl deleted them on icloud and then when I loaded ne contaces on her phone it would sych with icloud and all woudl be right with teh world.
What can I do next? I can give her her phone with her old contacts and not backup with icloud, but then she could lose her

If you don't have a backup of the newer information then you don't
Allan

Bought a new iphone and i cant activate it unless the previous owner deletes the account from their icloud but i lost contact with the previous owner how can i fix this?

bought a new iphone and i cant activate it unless the previous owner deletes the account from their icloud but i lost contact with the previous owner how can i fix this?

Take it back where you got and and get your money back.
As has been pointed out, if there was a "previous owner", the phone is not "new". Thephone you purchased is most likely stolen. If whoever you bought it from won't give you your money back, turn it over to the police.

If I upgrade to Icloud will I lose all my mail ? contacts etc.. Im on lion.

If I upgrade to Icloud will I lose all my mail ? contacts etc.. Im on lion.

No, but that does not mean that you should not backup first, unless you like taking chances that is.

TS3682 I have just updated to i0S on my iphone and have lost all my Contacts- when I try and sync from my computer it says that my Contacts have been disabled - help!

I have just updated to i0S on my iphone and have lost all my Contacts- when I try and sync from my computer it says that my Contacts have been disabled - help!

Have you tried the usual cures such as resetting your phone or backing it up then restoring from the backup?

HT4847 Since I joined iCloud, I have lost all my "Contact" list, i.e. all my telephone numbers. How can I recover them

Since I joined iCloud, I have lost all my "Contact" list, i.e. all my telephone numbers. How can I recover them?

Are you using iCloud as well as manually synchronizing via iTunes?
And, do you have backup?

How do i erase a corrupt contact list from iCloud,iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro and restore Address Book backup to all devices and cloud?

how do i erase a corrupt contact list from iCloud,iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro and restore Address Book backup to all devices and cloud?
I saved a corrected, most up to date version of my master Address Book Contacts as a back-up on my Mac Book Pro.
then in an effort to "simplify my life" i attempted to sync my I phone contacts - ( pre clean-up version) with my clean list on Mac Book Pro, New I pad and newly available icloud. DUH!! Using iTunes to do the sync caused the clean MacBOOK Pro list to be commingled with the dirty iphone contacts. amd now the whole mess is in the cloud.
I need to clear out the contaminated lists from all iplaces, and startover with Back-up on my macbook pro. BUT HOW???
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Karen

I had exported an address book backup: abbu
so since i wrote, i have found my way into the cloud: selected all entries - deleted them all from the cloud.
This wiped out contacts on my iphone and i pad, and MBP, as well as on the cloud. I then imported the abbu back into my now empty address book.
To repopulate the crowd, i selected all in my address book and created a single card vCard for export to my desktop. I then dragged that vcard into my empty cloud. Now my cloud has the same clean contacts as my MBP addressbook. The cloud then pushed the clean contacts into my empty ipad and iphone contacts.
I had to go back to Address Book>preferences>Accounts and Add an I cloud account - but if you accidentally create a second i cloud account - all of a sudden your address book will duplicate itself. I quickly reversed it by deleting one of the icloud accounts in my Address Book>preferences>Accounts.
I created a new entry on my MBP and it is now on all devices and in cloud
I also created a new entry on my iPhone and it is now in the address book on my MBP.
I feel empowered!!
Have i missed anything??

HT4528 I updated my iphone to ios 6.0.1 and selected icloud. I lost all my contacts - how do i get them back?

I updated my iphone to ios 6.0.1 and selected icloud. I lost all my contacts - how do i get them back?

No. Anything that was created after your last backup will be gone.
Use iCloud to automatically backup your device, usually once every 24 hours.

I have an iCloud folder in Outlook 2010-My contacts, but it only shows email addresses - no phone numbers. It also contains only about 2/3 of my Outlook Contacts folder. How do I get all my contact info from Outlook into iCloud

My iphone 4S only shows names & email addresses in Contacts, no phone numbers

Franc Colusso wrote:
I use a Dell Pc and other Apple products but had iCloud on my Dell with all the contacts for email on Outlook.
I deleted iCloud and now dont ahev the email adresses any longer.
How do I get these back on my Outlook email program.
I foolishly used iCloud as my backup inststead of my usual PC backup.
I thought Icloud could be an automatic backup but I cant find in iCloud any of my email addresees..
Frustrated and not an expert on PC.
Regards to anyone who can help.
iCloud is not a backup system and trying to use it as such will not work (as you see) do you have copies of your contacts anywhere else?

HT204053 We have three iPhones but one Apple ID because I pay for the acct whenever we buy Apps or music. However, it's frustrating that when we share iCloud it merges our notes and contacts even if we say "DO NOT MERGE." I've also lost my notes but cou

We have three iPhones but one Apple ID because I pay for the acct whenever we buy Apps or music. However, it's frustrating that when we share iCloud it merges our notes and contacts even if we say "DO NOT MERGE." I've also lost my notes but could not recover them even if I did a restore.

You can share the same iTunes ID on all your devices and still have different iCloud accounts with different IDs on them. The ID you use for iTunes does not need to be the same as the ID used for iCloud.
If you want to migrate your devices to separate accounts, on the devices that will be moving save any photo stream photos to your camera roll by opening the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tapping Edit, then tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share and tap Save to Camera Roll. Also email any synced notes to yourself so you can recreate them in the new account. Finally, if you are syncing any iWork documents with iCloud, go to the iWork app settings and turn off iCloud syncing.
Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. (This will only delete the account from this phone, not from iCloud. The phone that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.) When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On My iPhone. Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom). Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge. This will upload the data to the new account.
Once the phones are all on separate accounts you can then have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want from each account.

Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly. Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync. Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.

Sync between MacBookPro and iPhone 3G does not sync properly. Calendars duplicate events but worse is that only contacts from Address book from letter T onwards sync. Any contacts on iPhone which are not on Mac are lost during sync.
Solutions?

No, I never really found an easy solution. I believe it is an issue with some corruption in the iTunes database on the specific device. In my case, both my iPad and iPhone now show duplicate stream songs if viewed through iTunes on my Mac, but they show different songs. A couple years ago I had a similar issue on my iPhone, and Apple support suggested I back up the phone, completely reset it, and then restore it from the backup. It did work, so I imagine it would probably work for my current issues with the iPhone and iPad. But resetting and restoring an iPad or iPhone always makes me a little nervous that something will get lost. When I did reset/restore the iPhone, I do have to say, the restore process was 100% perfect and I did not lose any data at all even though Apple support said I might. If you try to go that route, I would suggest backing the device up both to a computer through iTunes, and to the iCloud so that you have a double backup.
None of this really resolves the issue with how the iTunes databases are becoming corrupted on the apple devices though, so it is very likely to happen again until they fix it. I have been unable to determine if there were any specific actions or conditions which caused the corruption to happen in the first place.
Might be worth another call to Apple support, or dropping in the local Apple store if you have one near by.

Hi I lost all my contacts etc on my Iphone 4 how can I retrieve them from Icloud?, Hi I lost all my contacts etc on my Iphone 4 how can I retrieve them from Icloud?

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