I've lost my contacts on my new iphone 6, please help.
I used to have the iphone 4s but got the new iphone 6 last week. I backed up my contacts before I got the iphone 6 and then uploaded my contacts onto my new iphone. I also changed sim cards and had to wait a few days for the new sim card to have the same number I used to own. I got my old number on my new sim card today and all my contacts disappeared! I tried to restore my iphone and then upload my contacts onto my iphone again but the contacts I had backed up have also disappeared! Please can someone tell me how I can get my contacts back??
Where did your contacts originally come from? Gmail? Yahoo? Outlook? Or did they only get created directly on the iPhone?
Wherever the original source of contacts was is your best bet, but if they only lived on your iPhone then I think all you can do is try to recover them from your old sim. If you can do that, and turn on your iCloud account's Contacts, then maybe then they'll be synced to iCloud and the you can put your new sim back in.
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