HT1386 Where can I find my backup contact list

We shared an icloud back up with my daughter & she deleted contacts from her phone which ended up deleting my husband's very important contacts. Even on the cloud they are gone. I would have thought it would take more than just one deleting on the phone for the contacts to be completely erased but that seems to not be the case. When trying to restore his phone I can't even get the contacts back. I have spent 3 days trying to do this & find his contacts but no luck.... Are they hidden somewhere on itunes maybe? Where might I be able to find his contacts? Please help!

When you share an iCloud account any actions taken on one device (such as deleting contacts) are mirrored on all other devices sharing the account.  (That's what iCloud is desiged to do; sync changes to all your devices.)  Unfortunately, contacts are not included in the iCloud backup as they are assumed to be stored in your iCloud account.  If the contacts are no longer on icloud.com, you will have to find another backup source to recover them from.

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