How to Recover iPhone Contacts on Mac

After synced your iPhone, and unfortunately to notice that all your contacts on your address book had disappeared? Or we will accidently delete the phone number of our friends in iPhone contacts. Is there any way to restore iPhone contacts? To reach it, you need to get an iPhone contacts recovery tool.

After jailbreaking your iPhone,or update your iPhone to iOS 8/iOS 9,you may unfortunately to notice that all your contacts on your iPhone had disappeared,or sometimes you may deleted contacts on iPhone by accidentally,many people ask “how to recover iPhone contacts that lost or deleted”,when you accidentally deleted phone number, address in iPhone contacts,do you want to restore deleted contacts from iPhone? If you use Mac and need to find a iPhone contacts recovery for Mac to recover iPhone contacts from iTunes backup on Mac, this use guide mainly teach you two ways to recover contacts from iPhone on Mac.

Recover iPhone Contacts with or without your device on Mac

To retrieve lost contacts from iPhone on Mac,you need to use a professional iPhone Data Recovery for Mac and iPhone Data Recovery, which is especially for iPhone and Mac users to scan the contents from iTunes backup file and restore contacts as .csv, .vcard, .html formats and saved to Macbook or computer, you can use this Mac iPhone Contacts Recovery tool to directly recover the lost contacts from iPhone on Mac,then restore them back to your iPhone directly. What’s more,if you have synced iPhone to iCloud before,it allows you get those missing/deleted contacts from iCloud backup files only few steps.If you want to recover other lost data for iPhone,this iOS Data Recovery for Mac can help you recover contacts, SMS, calendar, call history, notes, photos and videos on Mac, before restore those lost data,you can select wat you need then preview them one by one. In addition, the iPhone Data Recovery also supports recover contacts from iPhone 6s/6s Plus and iPhone 6/6 plus/5s/5/4s with iOS 9, even works well with iPhone 4/3GS and other iOS 8/iOS 7/ iOS 6 devices.Let’s show you the use guide to restore iPhone contacts in two ways.

Firstly, you need to download the iPhone data recovery for Mac:

Tutorial 1: Recover Deleted/Lost iPhone Contacts on Mac Directly

Tutorial 2: Scan and Restore iPhone Contacts from iTunes Backup Mac

Tutorial 1: How to Recover Contacts from iPhone on Mac Directly

Step 1:Connect your iPhone to the computer

If you didn’t lose your iPhone, you can also use this way to recover your contacts. Connect your iPhone and run the iPhone Data Recovery program on your computer.
Ⅰ. For iPhone 6s/6s plus, iPhone 6/6 plus, iPhone/5S/5C/5 or iPhone 4S users, you’ll see the main window as follows.

Only a “Start Scan” button on the main window. After connecting your iPhone, you only need to click the “Start Scan” button to scan your iPhone. You’ll see this scanning window immediately after clicking the “Start Scan” button.

Ⅱ.For iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users, you can choose to go to the Advanced Mode to get a deeper scan for your iPhone. Just click on the button at the lower right-corner.

1) Hold your device and click the “Start” button.
2) Pressing the “Power” and “Home” buttons at the same time for exact 10 seconds.
3) Then release the “Power” button, but keep holding “Home” for another 15 seconds until you get the message of successfully entering.
Whatever the device you use, the program will automatically begin scanning your iPhone for lost contacts after you doing the steps accordingly.

Step 2:Begin to scan all contents from your iPhone

iPhone 6S/6/5S/5C/5/4S users don’t need to go to the Advanced Mode to get a deeper scan for your iPhone step. You only need to click “Start Scan” to directly scan your iPhone for deleted contacts on it.

Step 3:Preview and restore iPhone contacts

When the scan is finished, you can preview all found data before recovery. Choose “Contacts” to preview, mark it and click “Recover”, you can save all the contents on your computer with one click.

Tutorial 2: Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone contacts on Mac

[Relevant knowledge]: How iTunes backs up your iPhone contacts
Many iPhone users may ask:why we can recover iPhone backup contacts from iTunes backup files? I never backup iPhone contacts to iTunes before. In fact,every your synce iPhone to iTunes and manage the content of iPhone with iTunes, the iTunes backs up everything of your iPhone first when you sync with it,but those backup file is not regular file type,which is a SQlitedb file, you are not allowed to preview, even access those backup files(SQlitedb file). Sometimes it’s encrypted, just for private safe.

How to get those backup contents (SQlitedb file) and restore to original file?However,to restore contacts from iTunes backup files,you need to use third iTunes data recovery tool.
This iPhone data recovery program is a all-in-one iTunes&iPhone recovery software,it enables you to restore contacts on iPhone from the backup files on iTunes, no matter you are using iPhone 6/5 Plus, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, or iPhone 3GS, or you just lost it, If you use Macbook, Mac Pro and other Mac computer,the Mac iPhone Data Recovery can help to find the contacts back on your computer. Besides contacts, it also can help you to recover previous SMS, Call History, Notes, Calendar, as well as lost photos and videos, etc from iTunes backup files on your Mac.

Then iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery will automatically scan your device for lost files, just as you can see from the window below.

Step 1:Scan “Recover from iTunes Backup File” Recovery Mode

Notes:Before restore iPhone back data from iTunes,no matter you just lost your iPhone or you still hold it in your hand, don’t connect or sync it with iTunes after you lost your contacts, to prevent the backup file from being updated and replaced by the contacts on your iPhone now.

If you have synced different iDevices with iTunes before, there will be more than one backup files, after you click “Recover from iTunes Backup File” on the top of the primary window. Choose the one for your iPhone and click “Start Scan”. Then move further.

Step 2:Recover your iPhone contacts from iTunes

Only few minutes,all the contents from the backup file on your iTunes will be displayed in details,including Contacts, Messages, Call History, Notes, and you also can preview the photos & videos contained on your iPhone.
If you only want to recover the contacts,please check the box in front of the Contacts and click the “Recover” button, then you can save those lost/deleted contacts on your Mac from iTunes. You also can recover the other data in the same steps, if you have a need.

Note: Well done,all backuped contacts have extracted and saved on your Mac, if you want to transfer them back to iPhone,you can use iPhone Data Transfer to copy them back to your iPhone in a few clicks.

What’s more about iPhone Data Recovery for Mac:

Accidentally deleted your important data from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch but having no backup files? Is your device lost or damaged after syncing with iTunes? Don’t worry! This iPhone Data Recovery for Mac is the world’s iPhone/iPad/iPod touch Data Recovery for Mac iPhone 6 & iOS 8 iPhone, it can help you recover 12 kinds of data from iPhone /iPad/iPod touch easily, regardless of whether you have backup files or not.

*Restore Messages, Contacts, Photos, Videos, Notes, Call history, Calendars, Reminders, Safari Bookmarks from all iOS devices.
*Recover iPhone, iPad and iPod lost data due to iOS upgrade, jailbreak, accidental deletion, virus attack, restoring to factory settings, device damaged or locked, etc.

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