
I’m using iPhone X with iOS 12. After installing iOS 12, some of my contacts disappeared. I didn’t back up my phone before. Can someone help me to get them back? Thanks in advance!
iOS 12 makes your iPhone and iPad experience even faster, more responsive, and more delightful. Hence a lot of iOS users can’t wait to upgrade their devices to the latest iOS 12. However, when the upgrade is complete, some important data such as the contacts is missing. No one can deny the importance of Contacts in iPhone, especially for those business people, who maybe have saved a plenty of phone numbers, addresses, etc on iPhone.
If you have ever backed up your iPad via iTunes/iCloud, the easiest way to recover iPhone contacts is to make a complete restore. But what happens if you inadvertently lose or delete your contacts on your iPhone/iPad? Don’t be panic, there’s a professional iOS data recovery called iFonebox which can easily get lost iPhone contacts back by scanning your device directly. It can be used to deal with 17 file types of data like notes, texts, calendar events, reminders, call records, safari history, WeChat data, WhatsApp data and many more.
The following are some of its key features:
- It’s very easy to operate and totally safe
- It has three independent working modes and each mode has its specific features
- The preview function allows you to read all the recoverable data before recovery progress
- It works well with a large variety of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running different iOS versions
- You can choose data to restore without losing any existing info on your device
iFonebox is fully compatible with Win and Mac, you need to download the program from our official website or here, please make sure to download the right version. Then let’s take part in its detailed instructions to retrieve missing contacts from iPhone after an update to iOS 12.
Step one: Launch iFonebox
Connect your iPhone to the computer, in this interface, you'll see “Next” in blue area, click it to continue. It’s necessary to enable the flight mode and keep the USB cable connected stable during the progress.

Step two: Scan data
It will scan automatically after you click the “Contacts” to begin the process. The duration depends on the amount of your data so it might take your some time, please wait patiently.

Step three: Get back data
Once the scan is complete, a list of contents will show up on your program interface. Now you can recover them, choose the items you want to back up and click “Recover to pc”.
