How to Recover iPhone/iPad Contacts after Factory Reset

“My iPhone 6s went into recovery mode after updating to iOS 10. To get it out of recovery mode, I had to restore it to factory settings. However, I lost everything. My photos, contacts, text messages, and more are gone. What can I do to recover important contacts from my wiped iPhone 6s?”

Many users may come up with some trouble on their iPhone or iPad and they perform the factory reset to work smoothly. If you are an Apple user, you will be driven nuts by a variety of questions about iPhone factory settings. “How to reset iPhone 4s/5/5s/6/6s/7 to factory settings?”, “How to recover data from my restored iPhone?” and so forth.

Whether you get your iPhone/iPad restored to factory reset by accident, or reset to factory settings for speeding up your slow iPhone iPad or other reasons, you must know that once you restore iOS device to factory reset, your data (contacts, text messages, phtos, apps, settings, and more) will be deleted from your iPhone or iPad.

After your iPhone/iPad is reset to factory settings, you can restore from an iCloud or iTunes backup to get back your photos, music, etc if you’ve ever had a backup. Instead of restoring from a whole backup file, can we just recover some important files, such as precious contacts, after factory reset?

Of course you can! iOS Data Recovery is professional data recovery program that is capable of detecting and recovering deleted/lost files from iOS device directly, or from iTunes/iCloud backup. Therefore, if you find yourself without any backup of your iPhone/iPad contacts after factory resetting, you can directly recover iPhone/iPad contacts after factory reset with this software. Moreover, it supports up to 16+ data including photos, messages, contacts, notes, whatsapp, wechat and more.

Tutorial: Retrieve iPhone/iPad Contacts after Factory Reset

Step 1.Run iOS Data Recovery on Your Computer

Free download this software to your PC or Mac. Kindly note that you should get the correct version. After running the tool then you will see the interface with a “Smart Recovery” option. Enter this option and you can quickly select the desired recovery mode with your factory reset iPhone/iPad device.

Here select“Recover from iOS Device” from the top two recovery modules bar, and click “Start” button to begin.

Step 2.Select File Types to Scan

If you only recover deleted contacts from iPhone or iPad after restoring to factory reset, you can select “Contacts” then tap on the “Next” button. Or you can select all data to scan.

Step 3.Connect Your iPhone iPad to the Computer or Mac

Now, connect your iPhone/iPad to computer with USB cable. The program will then scan the data of your iOS device. The scanning process is usually very fast, if not, it is probably because there are too many files on your iPhone/iPad.

Step 4.Recover iPhone/iPad Contacts after Factory Reset

After the scanning comes to an end, preview pictures on the device by choosing “Contacts”. Tick the contacts you want to recover, and click “Recover”.

The important contacts, phone numbers data will be recovered to the computer. Other than contacts, if you want pictures, videos, messages back to your iPhone/iPad after factory backup, this iOS Data Recovery will be there for you.

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