How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S10/S9/S8(Plus)

By Selena KomezUpdated on June 13, 2019

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[Summary]: This article provides an efficient way to recover deleted and lost contacts from Samsung Galaxy S10/S9/S8(+) with Android Data Recovery, so you can easily recover the deleted contacts with full information including phone number, contacts name, Email, job title and address.

Since the release of Samsung S10/S9/S8/S7/S6, many people use Samsung Galaxy S series, the topic on how to recover deleted contacts from Samsung becomes hot:

“I accidentally deleted some important contacts from my Samsung Galaxy S10 memory card, how can I restore deleted contacts from my Samsung phone?”

“After reset my Samsung Galaxy S9 to factory setting, I found all contacts and messages disappear, how to recover lost contacts and SMS on Galaxy S9 after factory reset?”

“I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S8, the contacts, messages and photos of my Samsung Galaxy S8 were all lost after rooting. How can I get it back?”

In fact, if you backed up Samsung data on your Google/Samsung account, you can easily restore contacts from the backups. If not, you can still recover the deleted or lost contacts on Samsung Galaxy S10/S9/S8(+), in fact, the deleted data is still stored on the phone, but the deleted data is hidden. However, the deleted contacts can be scanned, found and recovered from Android phone by a professional Samsung Contacts Recovery.

Samsung Contacts Recovery: Recover Deleted Contacts on Samsung Galaxy

U.Fone Android Data Recovery is a data recovery tool is designed to recover Samsung phone deleted and lost contacts even without a previous backup. It can selectively restore contacts from Galaxy S10/S9/S8/S7/S6/S5/S4/Note,etc. and save them as VCF, CSV or HTML files on computer, as well as recovering photos, videos, messages, call logs, WhatsApp messages and documents from Android phone, such as Samsung Galaxy Note, HTC, LG, Huawei, Sony, Windows phone, Motorola, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, etc.

Note:
1.Don’t added or import any data to the phone until the lost/deleted data be retrieved.
2.Don’t factory reset, format the phone.
3.Don’t continue using your Samsung the moment when you find the files lost or deleted.
4.Using a professional Android data recovery to recover your lost data as soon as possible.

Simple Steps to Retrieve Deleted Contacts from Galaxy S10/S9/S8

This guide teach you how to recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy S10 in Windows 10 as example, you can also follow the same steps to restore contacts from Galaxy S10/S9/S8(+) on Mac.

Step 1. Install and run the AndroidToolkit on your computer
After downloading, installing and launching the AndroidToolkit program on the computer, you can see it’s main interface as below. If you want to recover deleted contacts from Samsung phone, please select “Android Data Recovery” option, Then you’ll get the start window as below.

Connect Samsung Galaxy S10 to the computer via it’s USB cable.

Step 2. Enable USB debugging
After connecting the phone with the computer, then the program will promote you “enable USB debugging”. There are there different accesses owing to different android OS. Choose the right access according to your phone to start USB debugging.
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click “Applications” < Click “Development” < Check “USB debugging”
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter “Settings” < Click “About Phone” < Tap “Build number” for several times until getting a note “You are under developer mode” < Back to “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”

Step 3. Select “Contacts” to Scan
When you see the interface as below, if you just want to recover lost contacts from Galaxy S10, please choose “Contacts” to recover and then click the “Next” button.

Step 4. Allow the Program to Access Your Samsung Galaxy S10
Now the Android Data Recovery needs to get privilege to scan more deleted/lost/existing files from the Android devices, please try as below:

If there is a pop-up window on your device, please click “Allow/Grant/Authorize” on the device and make sure the request has been remember forever.

If there is no such pop-up window on your device, please click “Retry” to try again.

Step 5. Start to Analyze and Scan Samsung Phone to Find the Data
After moving to your phone and authorize to scan the devices. After that, back to the computer window to click “Start” button to begin scanning, the Android data recovery software begins to scan your Samsung phone after a few seconds’ analysis.

Step 6. Preview and Recover Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S10
After a few minutes’ scanning, all found contacts will be displayed on the window, please select “Contacts” from the left menu. Both existing and deleted contacts are displayed in the software’s interface, you can preview the found contacts one by one and view the details, then mark those contacts items you want to get back and click “Recover” to save them on your computer.

Note: You can slide the button on to “Only display deleted items”. It will be more convenient for you to look for your lost contacts.

Step 7. Save Samsung Contacts onto the Computer
only few seconds, all lost contacts will be saved as VCF, CSV or HTML formats for your use.

Save contacts as HTML file: For you easy to reading the retrieved contacts on the computer.

Save contacts as VCF files: For you easy to import the VCF to Samsung phone or other Android/iPhone by third-party phone transfer tool, like iOS & Android Manager
You may want to know How to Import Contacts from PC to Android

Save contacts as CSV format: For you easy to print out the contact list.

Note:
Don’t forget to back up your important contacts to the computer regularly, after creating your phone’s data backup, you no longer have to worry about data loss, even if your phone is damaged, lost or stolen.

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