How to Restore Contacts on iPhone X/8/7/6/5 for Free

Every establishment of Apple’s products will make a huge stir, including the newest iPhone X and iPhone 8 (Plus) released with iOS 11. Luckily, even without the newest iPhone, one can still update to the newest iOS 11 for better experience. However, many people find iPhone contacts missing problem after upgrading to the newest iOS 11. Have you met the same problem? If yes, what can you do to get contacts back on iPhone?

Actually, no matter what causes your iPhone contacts missing problem, you can restore contacts on iPhone X/8/7/6/5 for free with the following methods.

Method 1: Retrieve Deleted Contacts on iPhone with iCloud Backup

If you have synced your contacts to iCloud, you can go to iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID first; then click “Contacts” to find the contacts you have backed up; next, you can choose the contacts you want and click “Export vCard” to save these on your computer; finally, you can send the vCard file as an email to yourself and receive it on your iPhone.

Note: If you want to recover all the contacts at one time, you can tap the gear and click “Select All” and then tap the gear again to click “Export vCard”.

Method 2: Get Contacts Back on iPhone from Google Contacts

You can also recover deleted iPhone contacts from Google contacts backup. Follow the steps to get them back to your iPhone:

Step 1: Go to Settings>Mails, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account>Google;
Step 2: Sign in with your Google account and then tap “Next” in the top right corner;
Step 3: Make sure to toggle the “Contacts” switch to “On” and then tap “Save” in the upper right corner.

Method 3: Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone with Recovery Software

Even if you don’t have iCloud or Google backup of your contacts, you still got a chance to recover them. All you need is Jihosoft iPhone Contacts Recovery software.

This software enables you to recover contacts from iPhone X/8/7/6/5 directly. Just download this software on your computer and see how to do with it:

Step 1: Launch this software and you will see as the following picture shows.

Step 2: Connect your iPhone to the computer. Make sure to tap “Trust” on your iPhone if you are asked during the process.
Step 3: Click “Start Scan” to let the software scan your iPhone data once your iPhone connected successfully to the computer.
Step 4: Preview the deleted data, choose “Contacts” and click “Recover” to restore them.

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