I lost all my contacts by using icloud
My dad and i share an icloud. I just got a iphone and i was setting it up. I turned on home sharing and bam! all his contacts got erased and mine got put on his. I have tried to get his back but they r gone. He is so upset at me and now im crying. please help!!
Unless his contacts are stored somewhere else, they're gone. Does your dad backup to iCloud or use iTunes on his computer? If so, contacts are included in the iPhone backup, & restoring from backup will restore whatever contacts are part of the backup you restore from. Does he sync contacts with his computer? If so, sync them back.
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I see there is another ios update. I have an iPhone 4S. The last time I updated the ios I lost all my contacts, as I had not been using the iCloud as a backup. I am now apprehensive about the latest update. How can I determine if contacts are backed up?
You should never lose contacts under any circumstances.
Although contacts are included with the iPhone's backup, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer where such important data should be available with or without an iPhone or any cell phone. Not a good idea to depend on a cell phone for such important data which can be lost or stolen or damaged beyond repair.
In addition, there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air including an iCloud account, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail.
If you are not syncing contacts over the air with an iCloud account and not backing up your iPhone wirelessly with your iCloud account, your iPhone's backup is being updated by iTunes on your computer which is updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
With Windoze, contacts can be synced with Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 along with syncing calendar events, notes, and reminders, or with the address book app used by Outlook Express and by Windows Mail called Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only. With a Mac, contacts can be synced with the Address Book app. This is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
If the supported address book app on your computer is not used and has no contacts available, before the first sync for this data enter one contact in the supported address book app on your computer. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select. -
I do not have the same email address that I did when I started icloud, I do not remember my password and I lost all my contacts with this newest upgrade, it wants e to sign into icloud, but I cant, what can I do?
Welcome to the Apple Community.
If you are saying you can't turn off find my phone because it is still using an old ID, you need to change your ID back to the old address at My Apple ID turn off find my phone then change your ID back at my Apple ID. -
My husband and I both have iphones and everything was ok until I synced his phone and lost all his contacts and pixs. I downloaded verizon's contact retreival app and got his contacts back but now his contacts keep overwriting mine. I can sync my phone and get my contacts back but within a few hours, his show up again. We use the same apple id for purchases. What can I do?
Are you sharing the same iCloud account (in Settings>iCloud)? And do you both have Contacts turned to On in Settings>iCloud?
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hi me kashif Hello people,
I lost all my contacts on my iPhone. Facebook contacts integration is turned off. When I got to know that I have no contacts on my iPhone. I checked my settings and iCloud backup and contacts on iCloud (in settings) were off.
Is there a solution to get all my contacts back? Please help me. I want my contacts back, as soon as possible.
Thank you in advance.
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4Unless as part of a backup, or stored somewhere else, they are gone.
Your son needs his own Apple ID for iCloud, FaceTime & iMessage. He can continue to use yours for iTunes content, but for everything else, he needs his own.
When you did what you did, as far as iCloud knows, this is the same person with multiple devices, and that's they way things are supposed to work: keep everything in sync. -
Lost all my contacts in move to iCloud?
When moving from moblie me to icloud, I lost all my contacts on computer as well as iphone. HELP!!!!!
Me, too. What fun? So ... um on what cloud in the sky do all my lost Contacts now reside? Any way I can get them to float back down to me? Ironically, I don't even care about using iCloud - but I thought it would be a good way to keep a back up of my Contacts out there. Ha! Little did I know that, instead, it was a way for me to suddenly find the NEED for a backup, now that all it appears to have done is delete all Contacts from my iPhone.
If anyone hears of a fix ... the remedy would be greatly appreciated! -
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? -
I have lost all my contacts upon updating iPHone software and adding iCloud. Is there any way I can retrieve it?
I Have similar problem I have a blue app call download music free which I used tubidy to download songs to it still shows but won't play at all ,, Apple sort it out you robbers
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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. -
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. -
My contacts on my old Iphone I gave a family member were deleted then synced to icloud. My current iphone lost all its contacts when it next synced. I retreived a 6mth old backup to get my contacts, but I want my recent messages back, any help?
The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
The only way I see for getting back contacts is to restore them from a time machine backup, assuming you also have a Mac included in the account which syncs the contacts. However, I'm not sure whether time machine includes contacts from iCloud along with those that are local, "on my Mac".
Otherwise the deleted contacts are gone. -
I updated my iphone 4s to get iclouds and lost all my contacts. When I tried to sync my phone to itunes, it said I needed to update my itunes for it to work on my phone. There was no place to update so I installed itunes again. Still no contacts !!!! I've tried all the troubleshooting and still can't get them. They are not in www.icloud.com either. Help!!!!!!
iTunes 10.7 does indeed work on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Do you mean you have Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard? If so, and you updated your iPhone 4S to iOS 6 on some other computer, then you may be out of luck synching to your 10.5.8 system, but you can get and try 10.6.3 here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1575
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Hi, im not able to backup all ma contact to my icloud using my iphone 3gs. only 290 out of 600 contact gets backup in icloud, though i hav enough memory. How to fix it ??
I have had similar issues backing up to iCloud. Thy only thing I have found to work every time is backing up to iTunes and then doing a restore to my new device. That includes iPhone 6.
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I can't synchronyze my contacts with my Iphone after the last update and I lost all my contact I can't find them I suppose they are stocked in my ICloud but I am not sure what I should do ????
Hi jandroantonio,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like your iPhone update may not have completed succesfully. Not to worry, we have an article with information on how to treat this symptom:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
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Jeremy -
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Log back in to iCloud.
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