
Last week an old company email was terminated, and when I deleted the account from my iPhone, about 100 contacts went with it. However, all of the contacts still pop up when I begin to compose a new text message because they are in "Recents". Is there a way to recover these contacts, which are still clearly on the phone? If not can I at least see a list of them, to add one by one. Please help, thanks. iPhone running iOS 10.2.1
In short, how to retrieve deleted contacts from recents on iPhone? Sometimes, deleted contacts will be stored in Recent and you cannot view them. Thus, is there any way to view and recover iPhone deleted contacts from Recent? Of course, here I have a method to help you get back deleted contacts to iPhone from Recent. Just keep reading.
In order to retrieve deleted contacts from Recent on iPhone, what you need is the help from iFonebox, a professional iPhone contact data recovery tool.
As one of the best iOS data recovery software, iFonebox enables you to recover deleted contacts from iPhone directly or iPhone backup selectively. Also, within the help from iFonebox, you can transfer recovered contacts back to your iPhone directly, so cool. Plus, other data like text messages, wechat data, whatsapp messages, etc, can also be retrieved via iFonebox. Detailed steps will be listed below.
It is necessary to download and install iFonebox on your computer firstly. There are two versions accessible: Windows version and Mac version.
How to retrieve deleted contacts from Recent on iPhone?
Run iFonebox. Choose Recover from iOS Device mode. Please connect your iPhone to the computer so to recover and transfer found contacts back to it.If it is the first time to connect your iPhone, you need to trust the computer first via clicking Trust on iPhone screen.

Scan contacts from iPhone. Click on Contacts item to start scanning and analysis process.

Preview and select lost contacts to recover. Now you can extract those contacts and then, select them, click Recover to Device button to transfer all found contacts back to your iOS device.

Finished. In a word, it is quite convenient to recover deleted contacts from iPhone Recent within the help from iFonebox.