Why does my iPhone never backup any contacts?

Any iPhone I have owned has never backed up my contacts so when I restore from backup I have to start from scratch.  Frustrating but why?

The iphone is designed to be synced with your computer/cloud service.
You should be syncing your contatcs regularly.
Have you failed to do this?

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