I lost all my contacts after my friend( who normally syncs/updates from my computer) updated her phone on a different computer.

My friend and I normally sync and update our iPhones from my computer. I have already updated to the iOS 5. But just the other day she updated her iPhone from a different computer. I did not realize this until I went to text someone and saw that their was only a number and no name in my messages. Then a few minutes later they were all like that. So I checked my address book and noticed I had no contacts, except I had all of my friends contacts. Some how she deleted all of my contacts. She even deleted them from my back up somehow. I am wonder if this has to do with iCloud. I had my contacts backed up on there. I even tried restoring from back up from a few weeks ago and it did nothing. This is frustrating, and I want to know how to stop this from happening again?

have you not been using your phone as intended? You should have been synching your contacts with iCloud, Outlook, or Address Book.
Synch your contacts back from one of those applications.

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Well there is a warning. However it is designed that your computer is the MAIN place for your contacts. The concept of syncing is that the phone gets "copies" of your real data (your phone is not the primary source, your computer is).
So if your computers address book you sync with has no contacts, then it will erase contacts on your phone because you have no contacts (dumb yes, but that is how it goes).
It warns when there will be major changes to your primary contacts (your address book on computer).
Now if you had at least 1 contact on your computer, it would of "merged" them (thus bringing over what is on the phone and bringing that one over to the phone).
The assumption is when you opt to sync contacts, that you have contacts on the computer you are syncing with and thus your primary place for contacts you maintain.

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Please help me figure out why I can't update my apps or get new ones...Thanks. I recently cancelled my mobile me account and a lot of strange and frustrating changes have taken place

I thought I finally found the answer in post https://discussions.apple.com/message/10843915#10843915
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All the postings related to this topic seem to indicate that there is no easy solution to this. You can restore from back-up ... but I think i've synched my iphone after my contacts disappeared - so restoring from back up will do no good! iTunes should have a clearer message in future warning users that all contacts will be deleted if you press ok in that window that appeared during the first synch!
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Well there is a warning. However it is designed that your computer is the MAIN place for your contacts. The concept of syncing is that the phone gets "copies" of your real data (your phone is not the primary source, your computer is).
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I went on icloud and synced my contacts and now all of them are GONE. i have no idea how to get them back,

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What can I do now ?

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Do the same for Numbers and Keynote.
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TS1347 i have lost all my contacts on my iphone 3gs after i updated it with the ios 5.1.1. How do i get all my contacts back?

i lost all my contacts on my iphone 3gs when i updated it with ios 5.1.1 how do i get them all back on my phone?

Thanks for Replying Chris....What i know is that each time i plug my iPhone to My MacBook Pro it starts to sync..but what kind of syncing...i realy don't know...i do have a back up from 2011 October...but thats too old...and i need my Contacts Data exactly from 19th or 20th of November 2013 were exactly i lost my Contact from....i need to know if there is any way of getting back my contacts from the iTunes surver or iCloud server....Or if there is anything els on my MacBook Pro that i can try...Pls help
M sure there is a way
Nasser

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