Whatever iPhone model you are using, you may encounter to lose some iPhone contacts when updating to a new version of iOS. For example:
1. When you updating your iPhone to iOS 8.4.1 from iOS 7.
2. When you updating your iPhone to iOS 8.4.1 from iOS 8.3.
3. When you updating your iPhone to iOS 9.0 from iOS 8.4.
They are in iCloud, they are on your iPad and they are on your Mac. You may retrieve them after connecting to iTunes, but that doesn't work sometimes. What's up? And this happened with your iPad as well. It's also curious that these problems are almost universal and easy to find on the internet - but not a word at Apple Support. How to recover lost contacts?
There are three ways To get back lost Contacts after updating to iOS 8/9.
1. Recover lost Contacts directly from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
To recover lost Contacts directly from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, connect your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to your computer. Then run this easy iPhone recovery and click on the Start Scan button appearing in the window to scan your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
2.Recover iPhone lost Contacts from iTunes backup files.
Please choose the ‘Recover from iTunes Backup File’ mode firstly. And then select the iTunes backup you want to recover lost Contacts from in the list, and click on the Start Scan button to extract the iTunes backup content. You can extract all the iTunes backup files existing on your computer.
3.Recover iPhone lost Contacts from iCloud backup files.
Please choose the ‘Recover from iCloud Backup File’ mode firstly. And then log in your iCloud account and choose the backup file you want to download it.
After that, you can scan it to find lost Contacts from the iCloud backup file.
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