Why did iCloud delete my contacts? How do I restore them?

I logged into my iCloud account. After a little while, my phone blinked on and off and now all my contacts are gone. Can you help?

I wish. What you do need is to know where those contacts come from in the first place and get those from there again. Once you got them find out if they will go to icloud if you turn icloud on. Some things do go and some don't. Example is Verizon's back up assistant keeps your contacts internally and doesn't sync with icloud.

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Why did icloud delete my contacts?

After signing up for icloud to try out then not really caring for it I deleted my account. Icloud deleted all of my stored contacts in the process. Thank you for that. Just what I needed on a Monday evening.

I wish. What you do need is to know where those contacts come from in the first place and get those from there again. Once you got them find out if they will go to icloud if you turn icloud on. Some things do go and some don't. Example is Verizon's back up assistant keeps your contacts internally and doesn't sync with icloud.

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If the contacts are still on icloud.com, just sign into your iCloud account in Settings>iCloud and turn Contacts on. If they aren't on icloud.com, you may be able to restore them from your iCloud backup by following Winston Churchill's user tip here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.

I lost my contacts - how to I restore them from my computer backup?

I need to restore my contacts on my wife's iPhone. They mysteriously disappeared and I want to restore from her computer iTunes /backup - but when I plug the iPhone in - it begins to "backup". I'm afraid if I allow the "backup" to proceed it will wipe out the computer back-up and replace with her "empty" iPhone contacts.
Can I simply "restore" the lost contacts from the computer?

If you have them synced to a supported application on the computer. If the phone begins a backup as soon as you connect it, then you want to go into Settings in iTunes and turn off automatic syncing. From there, you can choose to either sync the contacts if you have them in Address Book, or Contacts, or Outlook, or restore them from iCloud, or if you have a backup of the phone, you can restore the phone to the last backup that had the contacts on it.

Why did iCloud delete all of my contacts?

until today, i have always left iCloud off. i decided to use it is a backup for my contacts, and it deleted them. although i had them backed up on my sim, and did not "loose" them completely, it would help to know why this happened.

1. The Contacts in iCloud is NOT a backup. Only syncs with all devices that use the same iCloud account.
If you delete a contact from one device it will deleted from all devices AND iCloud server. This is SYNC.
2. When you turned ON the Contacts in iCloud Settings, you was promted to merge. Did you tap "Merge"?
3. Did you check if there is a "Group" button at upleft corner inside Contacts app?

My sister sync all my contact to her phone and then delete all my contact how can i restore them to my mobile., my sister sync all my contact to her phone and then delete all my contact how can i restore them to my mobile.

My sister sync all my contact to her phone with my apple id and then delete all of them how can i restore all my contact?

It sounds like she deleted them all from your icloud account. If you have an iTunes backup, try this to possible recover your deleted contacts. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4108
If that doesn't work, you might be stuck as Apple doesn't usually have a backup plan for intentional user deletion. You can try to call Apple though and see if there is anything else they can do to try and recover that deleted info for you.
Good luck and let me know if there are any other questions I can help you with.

TS1347 syncing contacts deleted iphone contacts how do i get them back

I syncing my iphone contacts with outlook and after the sync completed it wiped out all my iphone contacts and only synced my outlook contacts. lost over 300 records how do i get them back?

With the first sync with an address book app on your computer that includes at least one contact and the same for the iPhone, a merge prompt is provided, which you want to select. The other option is to replace on the iPhone with what is available in the address book app on your computer.
If this was the first sync for this data, sounds like you did not select the merge prompt when provided.
Contacts are included with your iPhone's backup, which is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process. If you haven't synced your iPhone with iTunes again, don't. Try restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup. Decline the prompt to update your iPhone's backup as the first step.

I deleted my contacts and can't restore them from time capsule

Please Help!!
I deleted around 4000 contacts by mistake with a script deleting the annoying duplicates that come with cloud syncs.
I can't restore them from my time capsule, I have read other posts and they suggest to copy the contacts folder in a back up from my time machine, Time Machine volume -> Users ->Yued1 -> Library -> Application Support -> CONTACTS, coping the folder in to my desktop and deleting the one in my computer all with out internet connection so iCloud won't cause problems, export the contacts, connect to the internet and then once connected let iCloud do its thing and then import the exported contacts, it all sounds good but when I mount my time capsule volume I get the folder backups.backupdb>Yued's Macbook Pro>(The backup folder of the date I choose)>Macintosh HD>Users>yued1 but Inside yued1 there is no Library folder, I did the command in terminal to show all files and folders, terminal accepted it relaunched finder but still won't see library, the only folder in my time capsule with library, is inside Macintosh HD but doesn't have a contacts folder inside application support.
I have OS 10.9.4 processor 2.2 GHz i7 and 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
I don't know what time capsule I have except that is a 1TB from 2011
I really appreciate your time helping me out. thank you!

Thanks for your help,
It takes forever to go from one window to another back in time, once I get to the one I want and click restore It goes back to my desktop as it would when restoring something else but the contacts stay the same...
I do see all the deleted contacts in the snapshots, but can't restore them

Why did iCloud delete my complete address book?

After trying icloud i noticed that everything in my calender was doubled. I decided not to use icloud yet and turned it off. My calender looks like it did before but my addressbook is completely deleted! Empty! Gone!

This was necessary but not easy to do.
The data of the addressbook is stored in the user Library which is invisible.
To make the folder visible in the time machine backup, i needed
a terminal command to show all invisible files.

Why did iCloud delete my pages documents on my iPad and iPhone?

I opened up pages on my iPad today after having ios5 for a week and I watched it delete all of my documents. It said that they were deleted from another device, which they were not. All of the documents on my iPhone also disappeared. I am going to try restoring from a backup, but what happened?

Same thing happened with my numbers document. Never have this problem with iDisk. I called Apple and no answer given. Use other ways to backup or stay with iDisk for the mean time.

My iphone 4 was playing up so i turned it off and when it turned back on it lost all my contacts-how can I restore them?

My Iphone was playing up so I turned it off and when I turned it back on again it lost all my contacts-any idea how to retireve them?

If it's already giving you that message, the information on the phone is gone. I hope you backed up to iCloud.

HT204150 I have 2 iphones registered under same account, but both phones had different contacts in them, somehow icloud duplicated, exchanged them. and deleted could not restore the contacts, how do I restore it? plz help

I have 2 iphones registered under same account, but both phones had different contacts in them, somehow icloud duplicated, exchanged them, and I turned off the icloud on one of them, while doing that it asked me if I want to keep them on my phone or not. I pressed the one saying not to keep them. I deleted all of them and could not restore the contacts, how do I restore it? when I sign in to my icloud account online it only shows the contacts that were on the other phone. plz help

I access a personal iPhone and iPad, and a business iPhone with the same Apple ID.
The iPhone's passcode lock feature is completely separate from another iPhone or iOS device.
All apps, all paid and free apps include DRM protection which is tied to the Apple ID that was used to download the apps. If some apps were downloaded with one Apple ID and then a new Apple ID is created, in order to download an app update that was installed with the original Apple ID requires using that Apple ID and password.

ICloud deletes the contacts and calendar entries from Outlook 2010 on my PC, when it syncs. with my iPad. How do I retain the contacts and calendar entries on my PC.

iCloud deletes the contacts and calendar entries from Outlook 2010 on my PC, when it syncs. with my iPad. How do I retain the contacts and calendar entries on my PC.

I should mention that i have NOT upgraded to iOS 5 on the 3GS and don't want to. Therefore, no iCloud on the phone.

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.

Why did i lose my contacts once I deleted an e-mail account?

I was having issues with my e-mails so I deleted one of my e-mail accounts and I lost my contacts.
Does anyone know how I can retrieve them?

You set them up using the appropriate option for that account. Though Yahoo, iCloud, etc., if contacts were being synced from them, should have notified you when you deleted them that the associated information would be deleted and should have given you the option to keep them on the phone. Exchange accounts don't give you that option, so wjosten's assumption that they belonged specifically to an Exchange account is most likely correct.

Why did iCloud delete my contacts? How do I restore them?

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