Recover contacts after deleting from iCloud?

Question

I recently purchased a MacBookPro which I synced to the same iCloud account that my iPhone is synced with. When I did this, the birthdays of all my contacts showed up as a day late on my MacBookPro. So I decided to resync them.

I (incorrectly) went to the preferences for the Contacts app on my MacBookPro and changed the account to "On My Mac" and then deleted all of my contacts. Then my brain caught up and I quickly went to System Preferences and stopped iCloud syncing contacts. Too late. Now my iPhone has no contacts either. I don't suppose there's any way of getting them back?

Answer 1

There are some 3rd party apps that claim to be able to retrieve things such as contacts, text messages, photos that you have deleted or lost somehow from iPhone on Macs and PCs. You would need to find a iPhone data recovery software tool. They may not be free. Here is the one I used and it worked.

http://software.bigbigsoft.com/data-recovery-mac

In the future, I highly suggest you back up your iPhone to iCloud, or at least use something like Dropbox or Google Drive. With so many free backup options out there there's no reason not to use one.

Answer 2

Only if you have synced your iPhone on iTunes, you can get all your contacts back by using a third-party iPhone data recovery software - Tenorshare iTunes Data Recovery, which helped me recover iPhone contacts I deleted by mistake before.