Recover Deleted Contacts: Android and iOS

Contacts accidentally deleted from your smartphone can be recovered under certain conditions. You can find out what those conditions are, as well as the exact procedure needed to recover deleted contacts on an Android device and an Apple iPhone, in our article.

How to recover deleted contacts on Android

If you have deleted important contact information from your smartphone, it is not necessarily lost. If you have synchronized them with your Google account or iCloud, it is possible to recover the contacts.

1. If you are using a smartphone with Android as operating system, the contacts will still be stored in your account for 30 days after deletion.
2. To recover them, please open the Contacts app on your smartphone and tap the three-dash menu.
3. Navigate in it to "Settings" > "Undo Changes"> "Device Backup", select the backup you want to restore and tap "Restore".

Restore deleted contacts: How to do it on the iPhone

For users of an iPhone, it is also true that a recovery of deleted contacts is only possible if they are regularly synchronized with iCloud. If this is the case, please open a browser of your choice on your computer and call the website "iCloud.com". Log in there with your Apple ID and navigate to "Account Settings" > "Restore Contacts". Then select the correct archive from the contact archives displayed and click "Restore". To confirm the process, please click "Restore" again in the window that opens.