How to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone and Android Phones

Recover Contacts from Mobile Phone

By Selena KomezUpdated on April 22, 2020

Summary
Lost or deleted contacts on your iPhone or Android phone? This article tells you two simple way for you to recover deleted contacts from Android phone and iPhone. You can free download the iPhone data recovery and Android data recovery and follow the tutorial to retrieve your lost contacts.

How to recover deleted contacts on Android phone?
“How do I recover deleted contacts? I deleted contacts from my Samsung phone by mistake, they are very important! Is there any way to restore deleted contacts on Galaxy S8 without backup? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks!”

How to recover deleted contacts on iPhone?
“I did a factory reset on my iPhone 7 after accidentally pressed the factory reset option. I am really so frustrated right now because all the contacts information is gone. I assumed I have backup to iTunes before, but I can find any backed up data on iTunes library, and I don’t know how t restore contacts from iTunes to iPhone. So I want to recover contacts from iPhone after factory reset from the backup file easily. Is there any way to recover iPhone lost contacts? I have those important contacts since the first day I got the phone.”

How to Contacts from iPhone to Computer

How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Mobile Phone?

There’s a good chance that the accidentally deleted contacts, SMS, photos, videos can be recovered on Android phone and iPhone, especially if it hasn’t been too long since it’s been deleted. The way that the deleted data is completely gone is when the space it resided is overwritten by the newly generated files, like any task of downloading media files and install software. So we still have chance to recover deleted data from iOS/Android devices.

Contents

Part 1: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phones
Part 2: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone

Best Solution: Contacts Recovery for iPhone, Android

Note: Please stop to use your phone and try to scan and retrieve lost data from your phone by using a professional Android data recovery or iPhone data recovery. You may know that the general Windows/Mac data recovery software does not support restoring data in the phone’s built-in memory, you must to use a reliable contacts recovery.

Please don’t save the recovered files on your phone until you make sure that you already get back all your lost data. Otherwise, some of your lost data that have not been retrieved maybe overwritten and you can not get them back forever. Below, we’ll teach you how to recover deleted contacts from Android/iOS mobile phone by using Android iPhone Contacts Recovery.

Part 1: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phones

Android Data Recovery works well to recover deleted or lost contacts from almost all Android phone like Samsung Galaxy, HTC, LG, Sony, Google, HUAWEI, Motorola, ZTE, Xiaomi, Oppo and more Android smartphones, it can also enables you recover deleted photos, videos, messages, contacts, music, WhatsApp messages, document and more files from unlimited Android phones. Let’s shows you how to scan and export lost contacts in CSV, HTML and VCF formats to PC or Mac.

The Features of Android Data Recovery Software

Support to retrieve deleted contacts with full information such as contacts name, phone number, email, job title, address, companies and more which you fill on your phone. And saving the deleted contacts as VCF, CSV or HTML to your computer.
Preview and selectively recover deleted contacts from Android phone.
Recover existing contacts from broken Samsung phone and save them on PC.
Retrieve photos, videos, contacts, messages, messages Attachments, call history, audios, WhatsApp, documents due to mistaken deletion, factory reset, system crash, forgotten password, flashing ROM, rooting, ect from andorid phone or SD card.
Fix bricked Android to normal such as frozen, crashed, black-screen, virus-attack, screen-locked and get the phone back to normal.
Compatible with 6000+ Android phone, such as Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Sony, Windows phone, etc.

Steps to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Android Phone

Tested phone: Samsung Galaxy S8

Operating System: Android 7.0 “Nougat”

Step 1. Connect your Samsung Galaxy S8 to the computer
Download, install and run Android Data Recovery on your computer, select “Android Data Recovery” and you’ll get the main window below.

Android contacts Recovery

Then connect your Android device to the computer and move to the next step.

Android Data Recovery home page

Step 2. Enter USB Debugging
If you didn’t enable USB debugging on your device, you’ll see the window below. Follow the detailed expression below. There are three different ways to finish this job for different Android system:
Note: If you have already enabled USB debugging on your device before, you can skip this step.
Read More: How to enable USB debugging on Android

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”

enable usb debugging

Step 3. Select Contacts to Scan
After the program detected your Android device, you’ll get a window below. Then, please select the file types “Contacts”, then let the program analyze it by clicking “Next” button.
select contacts to scan

select contacts file to recover

Step 4. Allow to Analyze Your Phone
Click Start to analyze your Android. Just wait a sec and a Superuser Request will show up on your phone. Allow it. Sometimes the box may pop up more than once, click “Allow” to permit the Superuser Request. And then, choose “Start” on your computer to begin scanning.

allow analyze the phone

You should be prompted to root the device for a deep analysis of the lost stuff. To do this, press Rooting Tools button and download KingoRoot app on a browser webpage.

Read “How to safely root and unroot an Android Device” for full tutorial.

The program start to scanning your Android phone for all lost data, during the scanning process, please keep connect your phone with the computer until it done.

root Android to scan

Step 6. Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phone
After the scan, the result will be shown in the interface, you can highlight one of them to see the details of your missing contact or existing one. Then you can stop it and preview all your contacts. Mark the data those “Contacts” that you want to get back and click “Recover” button to save them on your computer.

recover deleted contacts from android phone

Note: Contacts in the scan result are displayed in different colors. Actually,those in orange are the contacts deleted recently, and the black ones are those existing contacts on your Android phone. If you have such a need, you can use the button above (Only display deleted items) to separate them.

Now, download the free trial version of Android Data Recovery below to have a try.

Part 2: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone

iPhone Data Recovery is the highest iPhone data recovery rate in the industry, it provides you three recovery modes to recover iPhone lost contacts and deleted phone numbers safely and easily: Recover contacts from iPhone; restore iPhone contacts from iTunes and iCloud backups. What’s more, this iPhone data recovery also supports recover Text Messages, iMessages, Photos, Contacts, WhatsApp, Notes, Call History, WhatsApp chat history, etc. from iPhone 11/11 Pro(Max), iPhone XS/XS Max, iPhone XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8/8 Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S.

The Features of iPhone Data Recovery

Recover data directly from the iPhone, iPad and iPod device;
Retrieve previous data by extracting it from iTunes or iCloud backup
Supported data loss circumstances: accidently deleted files on iPhone; device crashed, smashed or broken; the device is locked by a forgotten password; your device is lost or wiped (eg. freshly upgraded to a new iOS, restored to factory settings, jailbroken or refurbished).
Scan and preview the lost contacts in detail before recovery, including address, job title and custom tags, etc., and recover them as a VCF, CSV or HTML file.
After getting back the lost data, you can use iOS Transfer Tool to re-sync the restored data to your iOS device for using again.
For example: Transfer the recovered contacts in VCF format to your iPhone.
Import the recovered photos and videos back to your iPhone/iPad.

Steps to Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone

Tested phone: iPhone X

Operating System: iOS 13

Step 1: Run the iPhone Data Recovery on PC or Mac
Free download the iPhone data recovery tool and install, run it on PC or Mac. Then, click “iPhone Data Recovery” function. If you want to recover lost contacts from iPhone without backup, please choose “Recover from iOS Device” mode to get started.

launch u.fone iPhone data recovery

Then, please connect your iPhone X to computer, when the iPhone X connected with the PC, click Start Scan button.

connect iPhone X to computer

Step 2: Select Contacts and Scan from iPhone X
In this step, please select the “Contacts” item that you want to recover from iPhone X, you can also “Select All” to scan iPhone for all deleted files.

select contacts to recover

Then press “Scan” button to find your iPhone lost data.

scan lost data from iPhone xs

Step 3: Recover Contacts Data from iPhone X
After the scan is finished, all recoverable contacts will be clearly organized as the screenshot below shows. Click the “Contacts” item to view the detail one by one, or only preview the deleted items by choosing “Show only the deleted files”. Select the contacts which you want to recover, and then hit “Recover” at the bottom to save them on computer.

recover contacts from iPhone xs

Tip: You can restore one, multiple, all, or any files by directly can and recover from your iPhone device, including messages, contacts, documents, videos, audio, photos, Safari history & bookmarks, call logs, WhatsApp messages & attachments.

Continue to choose a output directory to save the recovered data files, and finally press the “Recover” button to retrieve deleted files on iPhone XS (Max).

recover contacts from iPhone xs

Well Done! You have successfully recovered contacts from your iPhone, the missing contacts will be save onto the computer, if you want to transfer the recovered contacts from PC to your iPhone, please use this iOS & Android Manager, which allows you import contacts and media files from PC to iOS devices.
Also read: How to Import Contacts to iPhone

More Contacts Recovery Recommend

Android Toolkit – Contacts Recovery: This is an all-in-one Android toolkit, it not only can help you recover contacts, SMS, photos, videos and more from Android phone, but also can help you backup & restore, switch files, transfer files, erase data on Andorid, as well as unlock Android and root Android.

iOS Toolkit – Contacts Recovery: Also is an all-in-one iPhone toolkit, which supports recover photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, call logs, and more. As well as transfer, backup, erase data on iOS devices, as well as fix iOS system and remove iPhone/iPad locked screen.

iPhone Contacts Recovery: Provies users four ways to recover iPhone lost or deleted contacts, you can recover contacts from iPhone device/iTunes backup/iCloud backup, or via smart recovery, it also allows users recover lost photos, Text/Whatsapp/Wechat/Kik messages, contacts, notes, videos, call history and more in four recovery modes.

Broken Android Contacts Recovery: If your Samsung phone was damaged with broken screen or black screen, this broken Android data recovery can help you recover contacts from broken Samsung phone with full information such as contacts name, phone number, email, job title, address, companies and more which you fill on your phone. And saving the contacts as VCF, CSV or HTML to your computer for your use. In additional, it aslo supports fix crashed, frozen or locked Samsung Galaxy S/Note smartphone to normal without data loss.

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By Selena KomezUpdated on November 21, 2016

“I wanna restore my Gmail account contacts to my Samsung Galaxy S6 phone.How?Can anyone tell me about the detail steps?Thanks.”Matt Saif

Android users that love to customize their devices should know that they can easily sync the contacts stored on their phone with the device designated Gmail account.This trick helps you keep your phone, Google+ contacts and all the other profiles synced with your Gmail Account,the one you’re using the Google Play Store and with all the other Google services.This feature is great and you can easily perform all the changes and syncing in several steps.

Syncing contacts with Gmail account comes in handy when you want to root/update the firmware of your phone.As you know, while rooting or updating firmware you’re risking to damage data files, text messages and contacts that could get corrupted or lost. That’s the reason I’ve created this article, in order to help you sync/restore the contacts on your Android with your Gmail account successfully.

Part 1:How to Restore Gmail Contacts on Samsung Galaxy Phone

Step 1.Open the Gmail App or navigate to gmail on google search on your phone.

Step 2.Click on the Gmail drop down option.

restore-gmail-contacts

Step 3.Click on the button “More”.

Step 4.Select “Restore Contacts”.

>Select the time you want to restore from,example:20 minutes ago,7 days ago etc,.

Part 2:How to Restore Deleted Contacts on Samsung Galaxy Phone

When you lost Android contacts due to deleted by mistake,device factory resetting,Android system upgrade,viral infection,device get broken/damaged or other reasons,you are recommended to try this wonderful data recovery-Android Contacts Recovery,which enable to restore deleted contacts from Samsung,HTC,LG,Lenovo,Motorola,and more Android devices.Besides Contacts,this program allow to restore various of deleted data from Android,such as photos,videos,call logs,notes and so on.Supported Samsung:Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6/S5,Galaxy Note 7/5/4/3,etc,.