“I would like to know if there’s a way to retrieve my contacts, I accidentally deleted some key contacts on my iPhone 4S, and I have no backup files. I must find them back, need help!”
I believe most iPhone/iPad users have encountered the mistaken delete data more or less; actually, it’s not a problem to recover deleted data. You can easily restore from backup to get deleted data back if you backup your iPhone frequently. But if you don’t have backup file, don’t panic, you still have chance to recover them back.
Here introduce a powerful third party tool, Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac, this is a professional iPhone data recovery tool for Mac which provide two ways for iPhone/iPad user to recover deleted/lost iOS data include photos, notes, messages, call history, calendar, reminder, etc
Here introduce the function of finding back the deleted/lost contacts, and edit the phone number, email address, etc before transferring to iPhone.
Free Download Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac to have a try, it’s easy to use and works well with iPhone 5S/5c/5/4s/4/3GS,etc. windows computer user refer to windows version
Step 1. Choose recovery mode
Install Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS on your Mac and launch it, connect your iPhone with Mac by USB cable, your device will be automatically detected by this iPhone data recovery. Here choose “Recover from iOS device” as recovery mode.
If you have iTunes backup, you can also choose “Recover from iTunes backup” mode to preview the content in backup file, and extract iOS data from backup like contacts, photos, messages, notes, call historys, etc
Step 2. Preview and recover deleted contacts on iPhone
Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS will scan your iPhone automatically. The scanning time depends on the database on your iPhone. After scanning finished, all of the data on your iPhone could be displayed in the interface. Click “Contacts”, you could preview all the contacts on your iPhone one by one, check box “Only display the deleted items” on the interface to list the deleted contacts only, then choose those you want by clicking “Recover” button to save them all on your Mac.
Step 3 Edit and transfer contacts back to iPhone
If you want to recover your deleted contacts back to your device, just tick off those you want recover and click “Transfer all selected to device” button on the bottom of the interface to transfer those deleted contacts back to your iPhone
Tip: You could do some edit before transfer these deleted contacts back to iPhone. Choose one deleted contacts, and click the “Edit” on the bottom right of the interface to edit and add the content of this contact like name, number, address, birthday, etc. Then click “Save” button to transfer the contact back to you iPhone.
With Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac, you can also recover other iOS data like Notes, Messages, Call history, Calendar, Reminder, etc
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