How to Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from iPhone

Losing contacts on iPhone can happen often. You may occasionally lose important contacts due to various reasons, such as, wrong deletion, virus attack, iOS upgrade, jailbreak, factory settings restore, and so on. Fortunately, you have a big chance to retrieve contacts on iPhone. All you need is an iPhone data recovery tool.

Well, my recommendation here is: Jihosoft iPhone Contacts Recovery. It works well with iPhone 5S, 5C, 5, 4S, 4, and 3GS to recover deleted contacts. You can restore contacts by scanning the iPhone directly or retrieve contacts by extracting iTunes backup. Besides contacts, the software can also help to scan and retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone.

Now, this post will be divided into two parts to show you how to recover deleted/lost contacts from iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS.

Part 1: Directly Scan and Restore Contacts on iPhone 
You can connect your iPhone to PC and run the iPhone Contacts Recovery program to recover deleted or lost contacts directly. Remember not to use your iPhone once you lost contacts. Any operation on it may cause data overwriting and make the deleted contacts unrecoverable.

1. Run iPhone Contacts Recovery, and connect your iPhone to computer with USB cable. 
2. Click "Start Scan", the program will scan out all your data on iPhone and listed them in categories. 
3. You can preview all the data that was found. Finally mark the contacts that you want and then click "Recover". 

Part 2: Recover Deleted iPhone Contacts from iTunes 
Jihosoft iPhone Contacts Recovery software enables you to recover deleted iPhone contacts from the backup file on iTunes. Please note that you should not sync iPhone with iTunes after you lost contacts. This is important to prevent the backup file from being updated.

1. Click "Recover from iTunes Backup File". The program will list all iTunes backups on the computer. 
2. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Scan". After a while, all the contents from the backup file will be displayed in details. 
3. Choose the contacts that you want to get back and click "Recover" to save the lost contacts on computer.