Restore contacts from iCloud?

My iPhone 4S up and decided I didn't have any contacts while I was on my way home. It wasn't synced to a laptop, it wasn't even connected to wifi. It just decided all by its lonesome to delete all of my contacts. I've logged onto my iCloud and I can see my contacts are still there, but how can I restore specifically my contacts without completely restoring my phone?

Contacts are not part of the iCloud backup, they are synced to your iCloud account instead.  If you were syncing contacts with iCloud they would appear in your iCloud account when you sign in on your computer to icloud.com.  If they aren't there when you look, you won't be able to recover them from iCloud.

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  • HT4859 Restore Contacts from iCloud

    Can I restore the edited Contacts from iCloud into my iPhone that is not a new device?

    Here is what happened. Somehow, I synced my iPhone with all of my Google contacts, which added unnecessary garbage to my iPhone contacts. Meanwhile, it automatically backed it up a few times on my iPhone and to the iCloud. In other words, I forever lost my clean phone contact list. Somehow, I only have gmail email list on my iPhone contact list.. bizarre... So, I went to iCloud and cleaned up the contact list since it's a lot easier to do on iCloud than directly on the phone. I even exported the Contact as a vcard into external file. But I can't figure out how to restore my Contact list by importing - either from iCloud, or, from external file into my iPhone.
    Am I clear?

  • HT4859 Restoring contacts from Icloud

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    Am I clear?

  • How do I transfer contacts from iCloud to my phone?

    The Apple guy at the store moved all my contacts to iCloud and restarted my phone. Now all my contacts are gone from the phone but are still in iCloud. How do I get them back on the phone?

    Hi
    I just figured out how to restore contacts from icloud....
    Try this if you already have the contacts tab turned on in iclouds on ur phone settings...& it still have no contacts:
    Go to icloud.com - contacts
    bottom left hand corner is the gear icon which is settings - then select all
    This selects all your contacts then go to export as tv card or something like that
    A window pops up asking u to save - save onto ur computer where u can access easily
    go to ur email, compose new email & attach the saved contact list that u just saved onto ur computer
    on ur phone open mail, then open ur email with the attached contacts
    open the attached contacts - at the top it will say ' add all contacts' select that
    then it will pop up 'create as new contacts' or 'merge contacts'
    i selected create as new contacts as iphone 4 deleted all my contacts from my phone
    after a while it downloaded all my contacts back onto my phone which I double checked by entering the contacts app from my iphone
    so happy i got all my contacts back yay! i had over 400!!!

  • How do i restore contacts from a previous icloud backup?

    Somehow - half of my contacts have disappeared.
    I turned icoloud backup off , but the most recent backup is missing those contacts as well.
    i am pretty sure that the previous backup have the full contacts that i want to restore.
    Don't want to restore the entire phone.
    how can this be done ? will icloud drive help ?

    If you turned iCloud backup off and deleted the backup, you won't have an earlier iCloud backup to restore from.  Your most recent backup, if you didn't delete it, may have your contacts if it was made before the contacts were lost.  However, you have to follow this process to restore contacts from an iCloud backup: Recovering deleted iCloud contacts from an iCloud backup.  Otherwise the recovered contacts will be deleted as soon as your device reconnects to iCloud (making you think that they weren't included in the backup).

  • Hello, I lost the contacts from icloud and i found unknow contacts... i want to restore my iphone to an earlier backup after i do that i see my contacts but after few seconds the are dissapear again... how could i fix it?

    Hello, I lost the contacts from icloud and i found unknow contacts... i want to restore my iphone to an earlier backup after i do that i see my contacts but after few seconds the are dissapear again... how could i fix it?

    Hello Shelly700,
    The following article provides details and troubleshooting steps that can help get your iPhone to reappear in iTunes.
    iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
    Cheers,
    Allen

  • HT4859 I lost my contacts on outlook and now I have contacts only on icloud of iPhone 4 please tell how i can restore my contacts from icloud to my contact list in iPhone and to my outlook

    I lost my contacts on outlook and now I have contacts only on icloud of iPhone 4 please tell how i can restore my contacts from icloud to my contact list in iPhone and to my outlook

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Use your back up on your mac/PC and re-add your contacts to Address Book or whatever contact software you use.

  • When I delete all my contact from iCloud, How I can restore them?

    when I delete all my contact from iCloud, How I can restore them?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    To restore from a back up made through iTunes, follow these instructions.
    To restore from a back up made through iCloud, try the following:
    The difficulty in restoring iCloud data from a back up is that the back up is older than the current version on iCloud and anything that is restored gets removed again when an iCloud sync occurs.
    Ensure the device is connected to your local network.
    Start the restore from iCloud back up.
    Allow the devices settings to restore (watch for the confirmation of completion).
    As the apps begin to restore pull the connection to your router WAN port (the one that goes to the telephone point).
    Wait for the time out confirmation.
    Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn off contact syncing (keep contacts when prompted).
    Reconnect the router to the internet and let the restore process complete.
    Delete any iCloud contacts from iCloud.com on a computer.
    Navigate to settings > iCloud and turn on contact syncing (merge contacts when prompted).
    May I suggest that you carry out a back up to iTunes before you try anything, that way should things become even worse, you can at least restore back to where you are now.

  • How restore accidentally deleted contacts from iCloud

    I've accidentally deleted contacts from iCloud.com. and all contacts were deleted from my devices. How I can restore it

    Have a look here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4433716?start=0&tstart=0

  • HT204053 how do I restore my contacts from icloud to my iphone 4s

    how do I restore my contacts from icloud to my iphone 4s

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    If you are saying you have deleted them, you can't restore them unless you have a back up and can restore the whole device.

  • How can I restore data from iCloud

    My iPad locked up last night and I had to restore to factory settings to make it operable.  During the process it asked me if I wanted to restore my data and it told me that the latest and only backup was from a few minutes before that time which was AFTER all my stuff got wiped out.  I was able to resync some apps and all my music from iTunes, but I lost a ton of pictures and other files that I thought were SUPPOSED to be safe on iCloud.
    So I start reading about restoring data from iCloud and apparently Apple only does this on a NEW device.  What a load of crap!
    Does anyone have any idea how I can get my data from the stupid iCloud to my stupid iPad?

    The "Apple data" such as contacts, calendars, notes, etc. are not backed up to an iCloud backup, since they reside in the special databases on iCloud.  If you delete some data from a device (e.g. one contact), it is deleted from that device, from iCloud's database and thus from all other devices connected to that iCloud account.
    Hence performing a restore from an iCloud backup will not help.
    However, if that data was ever on a computer (assuming the computer also synced data from iCloud) and if you consistently perform backups using something like Time Machine on a mac or any number of backup programs on Windows, then you should be able to restore the data from that backup.  For example, on a mac, invoke the contacts app then choose Enter Time Machine from the Time Machine icon on the main toolbar.  That will allow you to go back in time and choose an older backup to restore.
    If you have an iTunes backup on the computer, I'm not really sure that also includes the Apple data stored on iCloud.  It should have the local data.  For example, Contacts can be under "iCloud" or "On My Mac" (or whatever computer you use).  An iTunes restore should restore the data on your computer.
    The whole idea regarding an iCloud backup is that if your device ever fails and must be replaced or reset, the backup will restore all the data as it was at the time of the last backup.   The restore will return all the device's settings such as iCloud login, on/off states of data to connect to (like contacts).  Once that's done, the device will connect to iCloud and download the current data.
    IMPORTANT...
    Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream.  If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
    If you haven't been saving photos except relying on iCloud to store them in a backup, then that is risky, as many users have discovered.  I'm afraid I have no advice in this case - there is no "cure".

  • Okay so i had an iphone 5.  I backed it up on icloud. Then i got the new iphone 5s i restored ot from icloud from my previous iphone 5.  Now everything works find execept now the games are slowy and drops the frame rate and look choppy. Please help.

    Okay so i had an iphone 5.  I backed it up on icloud. Then i got the new iphone 5s i restored ot from icloud from my previous iphone 5.  Now everything works find execept now the games are slowy and drops the frame rate and look choppy. Then i restarted my iphone 5s as a new device downloaded the same apps even the ones optimized for ios 7 and the games still lag. And i just got my iphone 5s replace.  The funny thing is.  While im playing games and their running choppy and slow and if i take a snap shot inside the phone. They run smooth and HD but just for a few seconds and boom they go back to slow and choppy.  Is it the ios 7 or the iphone 5s it self? Like i said this is my replacement iphone 5s because the other 5s did the same thing. And it was running slowly.

    As far as I know you can't delete the primary email address for an iCloud account.  It's assigned when the account is created.  But your neighbor wouldn't have been able to get into your iCloud account without your Apple ID and password.  Are you sure the account wasn't still on your phone when you gave it to him?
    You could migrate a copy of your data to a new iCloud account but I would still be concerned that someone else was using my old account, which presumably still has your data in it.
    I'm fairly certain that you're going to have to have iCloud support help you sort this one out as they may have the ability to make changes to an existing account that users can't.  Make an appointment with the genius bar at a nearby Apple store and have them take a look at it.  If necessary, they should be able to contact iCloud support for you.

  • HT204150 My Contact from ICloud imports only the name but not every thing else. But that only happens with my own card

    My Contact from ICloud imports only the name but not every thing else if I want to import it to Contact on my Mac. But that only happens with my own card.
    Before, my V-Card in Contacts on my Mac was ok, but now it disappeared. When I try to import it from ICloud only my name appears.
    Can anyone help me? Thanks

    The backup of your iPod Touch would include your camera roll photos.  Restoring the backup to another iPod Touch or iPhone would recover them.  Photos will not be restored by restoring the backup to an iPad.
    Note: Apple deletes iCloud backups after 180 days of inactivity so be sure to do this before then.

  • HT204150 Deleting contact from iclouds

    How do I permanently delete a contact from iclouds? I've deleted the number from my phone book and text messaging history but they still pop up when I'm sending a message. Thank you.

    The text messge cache is separate from your contacts.  The only way to clear it is to restore your phone as new without using your backup.  This is not related to iCloud.

  • How to retrieve contacts from icloud .plz help me

    Unfortunately i lost my iphone and so my contact details .I changed my icloud id and locked my phone.Now i am trying to retrieve contacts from icloud as my ipad does say about previous backup and contacts but when i login on icloud i am unable to see my contacts on icloud .I will really appreciate if i am able to retrieve contacts from icloud .

    If your contacts are no longer on icloud.com and you don't have another backup of them, you can try restoring them from your iPad backup by following this user tip from Winston Churchill: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.

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