Recently upgraded to iOS 12.1.2 on my iPhone and no longer have my contacts. I have photos and contacts I desperately need! I was able to restore my contacts successfully. But restore restores everything, not just my contacts. I wish there was a way to restore only the contacts. Please help asap! Thanks in advance!
Nowadays, people do interpersonal communication every day, which makes contacts play a vital role in our daily lives. However, your contacts disappeared when you break your phone, you can't find the contacts after you deleted them by mistake, or you just didn’t do anything out of ordinary. In all these cases, data loss is a common occurrence. Please don’t worry, if you have done iCloud backups, here we've recommend you an easy way to restore contacts from iCloud backup.
As a professional iOS backup extractor, iFonebox enables you to get contacts as well as other 16 kinds of data back from any iTunes or iCloud backup without effort, including notes, messages, iMessages, call records, safari history, reminders, calendar lists, photos, videos, voice memos, WeChat data, WhatsApp data and may more. It’s quite easy to use, just several clicks to copy iCloud contacts to your computer. Below are some key features why it highly recommended:
- It’s quite easy to use and 100% security guarantee
- Three powerful working modes: recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup
- It supports all models of iPhone/iPad and iPod, iPhone XS/XR/XS Max are included
- You can preview all the recoverable before the recovery progress
- Selectively restore the missing content to without overwriting the original data
It’s fully compatible with both Windows and Mac systems. It’s necessary for you to download the suitable version for your computer. Next we will show you the detailed instructions to help you retrieve contacts from iCloud backup efficiently.
Step one: Run iFonebox and enter your Apple ID
Run the program, then just click the “Recover from iCloud Backup” at the top right of the software. You’ll be asked to sign in with your Apple ID account and password correctly.
Step two: Download data from iCloud backup
After you have selected an iCloud backup to download, it will start the downloading process. You can select all to download.
Step three: Scan data
Click on “Contacts” icon to start scanning automatically. It will take some time, you should wait patiently.
Step four: Preview and download data
Now you can select the contacts you want and click “Recover to pc”, then the instruction is accomplished.
