I just updated my iphone and all my contacts are gone, help!

It's an iphone 4 and the update was iOS6.1.2

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TS1347 I just updated my iphone, and all my contacts are gone. What can I do?

Just updated my iphone and lost all my contacts. What do I do?

sync your phone to itunes then sync your contacts. Or restore from backup.

I just updated to iOS5 and all my contacts are gone!

I updated to iOS 5 and before it applied the update it said "Backing up Marc's iPhone".
After the update, I went to load back my contacts and it says: "iTunes could not restore the iPhone "Marc's iPhone" because the backup session failed.
It would have been nice to mention that at the time, before I lost all the content.
I can see no way back from this.
I've gone back to another backup, and that says the same thing. Apparently, all my sessions have been quietly failing.
So, assuming I can actually source them again, I now have to type in around 300 contacts, by hand, one at a time.
I will never buy another Apple product.

I've backed up and restored contacts before, and it's been fine.
But since the IOS 5 "upgrade", it seems that things don't work so well.
I can't restore from the backup that the update took, nor from older backups.
As luck would have it, I remembered that I tried syncing contacts to Google a while back, so I've recovered *some* items from there by setting up the sync again (iOS/iTunes had managed to lose it, along with all my email accounts etc). Google also lets you export your contacts to a CSV file, which is a bonus.
I'm not sure about why some contacts were synced to Google and others not, I'll look into that later.
All my photos are lost, apparently forever.
Next time I buy a phone, it will be one where I can just drag'n'drop to copy files. Probably Android- I'll certainly not buy another Apple product.
I'm curious about some of what you say: why go through the setup ON THE PHONE? What difference does it make?
I'm reluctant to do anything much more interesting now- it seems that I can no longer trust iTunes (never liked it much, I have to say: I don't find it at all intuitive).

I have a 3gs that just updated to 5.0 all my contacts are gone. how can i get them back?

i have a 3gs that i just updated to 5.0. all my contacts are gone. how can i get them back?

Are your contacts still on your computer? If yes, set one contact up on the phone and sync it, you'll get the option to merge data.
If there are no more contacts on the computer, see if your latest backup still has the info, if you did not sync after you lose the info, they are still part of the backup.
Backing Up, updating, and restoring your iPhone and iPod touch software

I updated my iphone and all my contacts were deleted, how can i get them back?

i updated my iphone and all my contacts were deleted, how can i get them back?

like roaminggnome said you should see your contacts again once you sync with iTunes. if you used iCloud before, make sure contact sync is turned on and your contacts should be back.

HT204150 I have just set up icloud and all my contacts are duplicated from Address Book! My new iPhone is also showing duplicate contacts even though they are not duplicated in my address book on my computer. Please can you help

I have just set up icloud and all my contacts are duplicated from Address Book! My new iPhone is also showing duplicate contacts even though they are not duplicated in my address book on my computer. Please can you help?

Also, what are the source of your contacts? are they created on the phone, or you synced from yahoo/hotmail etc.
If thats the case, the circular arrow wont be visible but instead show "groups"
Contacts from different accounts are not synced to iCloud.

I deleted icloud and all my contacts are gone

I accidentaly deleted iclous from my iphone 5 and all my contacts are gone. How can I bring it back?

Sign back in to iCloud.
Settings > iCloud

HT4623 I updated my Iphone 4 and all my contacts are gone, what can I do to restore them?

I updated my IPhone 4 and now my contacts are gone. What can I do to retore them?

Snowbound
The tab that Roaminggnome is talking about is your "Info" tab. As you can see my contacts and calendars on my iPhone are being synced through iCloud.
I also regularly take an export copy of my contacts and save it separately. This doesn't help you now but it may help you on a go-forward basis.
Cheers

Just updated my iPhone and all of my contacts are gone. What can I do to retrieve them?

I updated my iPhone and it synced, downloaded, did something called restore, and told me I was finished. Now I have none of my original contacts. What can I do to get them back? I didn't click anything or answer any questions until the update was complete.

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide /Users/ as the path, and move the files to your current home folder. Alternatively, open the Accounts or Users & Groups pane of System Preferences, unlock it, control-click your account, choose Advanced Options, and change the path to the home folder.
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I just updated my iPhone and my ap icon is gone. How do I download aps?

I just updated my iphone with new is. My aps and ap icon did not reload. How do I restore this?

If you mean the App Store app is missing, check Settings>General>Restrictions to be sure that Installing Apps is set to On. If it is, then look on all your screens and inside all your folders. If you still can't find it go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Home Screen Layout. This will restore the home screen to its original configuration but may move other apps around to do so.
If you mean that your apps are missing, sync with iTunes to transfer them back to your phone.

Synced phone for the first time, and all my contacts are gone. Please help

I had to upgrade the iOS to 5. And all of the contacts are gone. Is there a way to recover them?

How did you get the contacts loaded onto the iPhone in the first place?
If you used iTunes that would imply the "source" of contacts was either on your computer (e.g. Outlook) or perhaps through a one-time upload from an e-mail service like GMail. In either case, your contacts should (might) still be where they were when you originally put them onto your iPhone.
If all your contacts were manually entered into the iPhone, then you're out of luck since they are not backed up, unless you set iCloud up to sync your contacts (in which case they'd still be in iCloud).

I synced my iphone and now my contacts are gone... how do I get them back?

We have two iphones on the same itunes computer/library and now I think we set the accounts up wrong because i synced my phone under my itunes id and my contacts are gone... can i get them back?

See this Discussion
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21134273#21134273

IOS 5 Update on iPhone 4 - All Purchased Apps are GONE!

Hi there,
I recently updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and upon updating all my apps downloaded and purchased were no longer on my iPhone. I then went to my iTunes account to reload all my purchased apps and they were no longer listed under my accounts previous purchases. Has anyone had this issue happen- what can I do? I've lost probably 50$ worth of apps now and I am somewhat dissapointed with that!
Help?
Chris

Likely you have to Apple ID's and the one your iPhone is logged in with is differtn than the iTunes account where your apps and content are located.
Go here to clarify:
https://appleid.apple.com

I went to make a phone call today and all my contacts are gone - poof!

I need to recover them as they were not in itunes or anywhere else. Some of them were in my phone only. They were copied into my iphone 2 years ago from my flip phone. There are contacts in there from 5 + years ago.
HELP!!!

FYI:
The same identical thing happened to me on a new iPhone 4S. Call came in, name & number showed on the screen, hit answer, screen went black, phone turned off. Turned it back on, all contacts were gone. But, it was simple for me to restore them. Point being, this stuff can/does happen to anyone, and at anytime. That's why you have redundant backups.

WTH? Importing songs into my iPhone and now my contacts are gone?!

Anyone?

Maybe check your iTunes settings before syncing the phone and make sure your contacts are checked to sync.
All your contact info should still be on your computer.

I just updated my iphone and all my contacts are gone, help!

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