ICloud wiped out my iphone contacts

I decided I didn't want my iPhone contacts and calendar on iCloud and when I tried to erase them from iCloud everything was erased from my phone and Mac too. Is there any way to get them back?

iCloud contacts are stored in iCloud. If you sign out of iCloud (remove the account from your phone) you are asked if you want to keep or delete your contacts from your phone. Which option did you choose?
Deleting the iCloud account does not delete your contacts from iCloud. If you sign back into iCloud all contacts stored there will reappear on your phone.
iCloud is not a separate place for storing duplicated info. It is the master place your contacts and calendars etc are stored and each of your devices/computers uses that master data.

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recent upgrade I lost all my contacts, I only had icloud for find my phone. My son backs his contacts up to my id, so when the upgrade happen it wipped out my contacts. I had been doing backups on my computer when I plug it in. But the problem is that it overlays the previous backup and after the upgrade it wiped out my phone contacts. So now I lost them and can not recover them. You need a more robust backup for IPhone.... I can not use the cloud because of my work will not let me. I have confidential information or access to it on my phone. I do not like each time I upgrade I lose my contacts and then I can't recover them because the backup runs again and overlays it. Should be a way to get increamental backups at point and time and not overlay everything. So frustrating with my upgrades and constantly losing my contacts. Very insufficent.

I think you can solve your problems by removing your AppleID email address from BOTH the Messages setting on your iPhone and the iMessages settings on your Mac.
On iPhone:
Settings > Messages > iMessage > Dissabled
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > touch the "(i)" < touch "Remove This Email"
On Mac:
Open "Messages" application
Click "Messages menu > Preferences
Click "Accounts"
Select your AppleID account
Under the "You can be reached for messages at" settings, uncheck your AppleID email address and your phone number
Then uncheck the "Enable this account" setting
And lastly, ask all of your friends with iPhones to delete all iMessage conversations (blue bubbles) in their entirety.
To test, send a friend a new text using their phone number (not their email address) and watch the color of the bubble. If it's green then you are using SMS.

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Deleting my iCloud account from my iPhone has wiped out all my contacts.

Is this supposed to happen? I was led to believe that the cloud was a separate place for storing duplicated info if your device ever got lost/damaged and not THE ONE AND ONLY place where stuff gets stored. I was getting fed up of deleting unwanted and duplicated contacts over and over again so I thought closing my iCloud account would stop unwanted contacts appearing again. Now Im too afraid of updating my iPad for fear of my contacts disappearing from there too.

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Deleting the iCloud account does not delete your contacts from iCloud. If you sign back into iCloud all contacts stored there will reappear on your phone.
iCloud is not a separate place for storing duplicated info. It is the master place your contacts and calendars etc are stored and each of your devices/computers uses that master data.

ICloud wiped calendars from iPhone - also not syncing contacts

I migrated from mobileme to iCloud - all functions appeared to be ok and syncing between iMac, MacBook Pro and iCloud viewed online via browser.
Mail is syncing with my iPhone and iWork is syncing and working fine.
But it does not appear to be syncing my contacts with the iPhone - I made a couple of minor alterations to contacts as a way of checking - amendments appear on both iMac and MacBook Pro and iCloud in browser, but not on phone
But most importantly - all my calendars have been wiped from my iPhone.
Mail, contactsm calendars, reminders, bookmarks, notes and find my iPhone are all turned on on my iPhone
I have:-
1) Ensured I had a Wi-fi connection
2) turned iPhone off and on again
3) held home and power buttons to reset iPhone
4) turned calenders (and contacts) off in iCloud sync and turned back on again after a few minutes
5) gone to settings for mail,calender, contacts and changed the sync setting from events 3 months back to all events and tried refreshing calendar again.
6) I have checked the iCloud sync settings for calendar and contacts in system preferences on both my iMac and MackBook Pro
7) Have done a full restore of iPhone software
8) gone through 2 - 5 again having done the full restore
9) deleted the account on my iPhone and then re-entered account
10) gone through 2 - 5 again having re-entered account details
Cannot think of anything else I can do - visted local Applestore, but they were unable to help without a Genius Bar appointment which I have for four days time. If anyone can help more immediately than this, then I'd be grateful.
thanks
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randers4-
Thank you for all of your help.
But, it's still not working for me.
Firstly I'm new to Icloud. I have a feeling that I am missing something basic between Icloud and Iphone. I am at the point were I'm not even sure what to ask. Sorry for all the "possible" over info, but I wanted to be as clear as possible.
Goal:
-Changing from Iphone 3gs to 4s
-Download all info from Icloud to the new 4s
-only 1/2 contacts from 3gs are uploaded to Icloud, hence, 4s doesn't have the contacts
-problem: my computer is so old it (itunes)will no longer sync to either Iphone.
- "Test contact" performed on Iphone 3gs and it did upload to Icloud. So it's on the Icloud website contacts page when I log in.
- I have clicked import SIM contacts and uploaded to Icould. However I'm not sure if it really did it. It did say complete, but who knows.
Iphone 3gs 6.1.2
Groups:
All Exchange √
All Icloud √
Family √
Friends√
Setting> mail contacts calendars>
mail = default Icloud
contacts = default Icloud
Setting > Icloud> = all switched to ON except Notes.
Setting > Icloud> Storage Backup>Manage Storage>Backups>Backup Options = All apps ON, Camera Roll ON---- But no Contacts is there---I find this strange.
About 1/2 of my contacts are missing.
All Exchange contacts are in Icloud
All Friends and Family contacts are in Icloud
If I click on All Icloud the Freinds and Family groups check mark automatically too. So they look to me like they are "under" Icloud All group.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Kind Regards

ICloud wiped out all my favorites

   First of all I'd like to know how much space iCloud takes up on your computer.
   Next thing I noticed after installing it last night was that all my favorites are wiped out (missing) from the upper left hand side of my toolbar and there is a little square iClould button there but all the favorites that come pre-installed in Mountain Lion such as the buttons (E-Bay), (Weather Channel), (Yahoo), (Rotten Tomatoes) (Yelp) are all missing. Not one there!
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No I did not put them there. They were already on there with Mountain Lion. Like 6 buttons on the left upper hand side of the toolbar. Just a one click button to get to Yahoo, Weather Channel, Ebay. I didn't put them there myself. It was part of the browser. They're not in finder they were on the left upper hand side of the toolbar right where the new iCloud button made it's appearance after joining last night.
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Fortunately, We are running Time Machine on a NAS, so getting the files back isn't a big deal. What I don't know is what I'm supposed to copy over. If I look at users-->library-->mail-->Mac(username)-->INBOX.imapmbox-->messages.. I can still see all the same messages that are showing up in time machine. Is there another file or trick I need to do for the mail app to get all of these messages back in the inbox and everything back to normal ?
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Hello Clinton,
I have been working with this proble since last Wednesday and because of my schedule at the end of this week I wasn't able to try what you suggested until late last night. Restoring the User Data as you suggested did not work.
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ICloud wiped out my iphone contacts

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