This article teach you how to recover iPhone lost contacts after update the ios devices to iOS 9/iOS 8.Every iOS update may cause erase all contacts on your iPhone,however,how to scan and restore lost phone numbers, contacts from iPhone in iOS 9? The iOS 9 Data Recovery can help you restore iPhone lost contacts directly or restore lost contacts from iTunes/iCloud backup files.

If you lost some important contacts on your iPhone/iPad accidentally, lost contacts on your iPhone after upgrading to iOS 8, iOS 9,what can you do to recover lost contacts on iPhone? Do not worry, you still have chance to get lost contacts back from iPhone, iPad devices. This article mainly teach you how to recover lost contacts on iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5/4S/4 after update to iOS 9/iOS 8 with and without iTunes backup.

Tutorial: Restore Lost Contacts from iPhone after iOS 9 Update/iOS 9 Jailbreaking

Way 1: Directly Scan Your iPhone iPad to Recover Deleted contacts (Without Backup)

Both Windows and Mac versions ofiPhone Data Recovery admit you to scan your iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS to restore deleted contacts on it directly.

Step 1. Choose the “Recover from iOS Device” mode
After choosing your iPhone, you will get the interface below. Please choose “Recover from iOS Device”.

Step 2. Enter your iPhone system and scan iPhone contacts
I. For iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5C/5/4S user, You can “Start Scan” button directly to scan your iPhone, then a scanning window will be shown.
II. For iPhone 4/3GS user, you need to enter into the iPhone’s system as the follow steps:
1. Hold your iPhone and click “Start” button on iPhone.
2. Pressing “Power” and “Home” buttons for 10 seconds.
3. After 10 seconds, release “Power” button, but still hold “Home” for another 15 seconds.
After entering your iPhone system, the program will start scanning your iPhone and find out all your lost and existing data.

Step 3. Preview and restore deleted contacts on your iPhone
After scanning, you can freely preview the found contacts. Choose those you want to save and click “Recover” to save them on your computer with only one click.

Way 2: Recover Lost iPhone Data from iTunes Backup

Step 1. Select the right backup file to scan
After downloading the program, install it and launch it on your computer. You will get a main interface as below. Select the backup files of your iPhone and start scan the specific contents of the backup file.

Step 2. Recover deleted iPhone contacts
After the scan, check and preview your iPhone contacts, and then you can save them on your computer with one click “Recover”.

Way 3: Recover Lost iPhone iPad contacts from iCloud Backup

Step 1. Choose Recovery Mode
After running the iOS Data Recovery, choose the recovery mode of “Recover from iCloud Backup Files” on the top. Then you’ll see the window below. Enter your iCloud account and password to login. Wondeshare takes your privacy seriously. We never keep a record of any your Apple account info or content at any time during your sessions.

Step 2. Download iCloud Backup File
When you logged into iCloud, the program can find all iCloud backup files in your account. Choose the one where you’re going to recover data and click on the “Download” button.

And then in the pop-up, you can choose the type of files you would like to download. This will reduce the time of downloading the iCloud backup file. After that, you can scan the iCloud content now. Click on the “Scan” button to begin. It will take you some time. Just wait for a moment.

Step 3. Preview and Recover Data from iCloud Backup File
The scan will be complete in a few minutes. Once it stops, you can preview almost all data in your iCloud backup file, like contacts, messages, photos, and more. Check them one by one and tick the item you want. Then click on the “Recover button” to save them on your computer with one click.

Lost SMS on iPhone after iOS 9 update: You also can Recover Messages from iPhone 6 After iOS 9 Upgrading

Recover SMS from iPhone 6 After Update to iOS 9

Read more iOS 9 recovery solutions from: iPhone Data Recovery,Recover lost data from iPhone 6/5S/5C/5/4S

 

If you want to recover lost contacts from iPhone, you need to use iPhone Data Recovery. It can scan your iPhone deeply to find the deleted and lost contact for you. You can preview them before recovering. Learn how to restore contacts from iPhone. Besides contacts, you can also recover messages, photos, videos, call history, notes, reminders, calendars, voice memos, voicemail, safari bookmarks, Whatsapp messages and other deleted data for you.