How to Recover Deleted Contacts or Phone Numbers on Android or iOS

If you have to format your mobile, or you have lost your mobile, it is possible that you want to recover all your contacts, whether you are on Android or iOS, we will show you everything you need to do to be able to recover deleted contacts from your mobile.

Contacts represent a part of the most important information who owns our mobile, when losing them, it becomes annoying to have to ask all your friends and family for their numbers again. It can also be a really serious matter, in case you have lost someone’s number and that was the only means of contact.

Anyway, whatever your case, to recover deleted contacts, you just have to follow a few simple steps. These methods that we will teach you, will be depending on the operating system from your mobile device. All you have to do is look for the one that matches your mobile and follow the dictated steps, we can assure you that it is as easy as clear the call log or the contacts

Recover deleted numbers on Android

To recover deleted numbers on your Android phone is very simple. All you have to do is retrieve them from Gmail account that you had added. It is easier than export contacts from iPhone to Android, and when you add your account everything works automatically.

We then begin by showing you what are the steps you have to follow to recover deleted numbers on Android, in this way:

• Turn on your mobile, go to Settings, Accounts and Google
• In Google, select your email account and activate, if it is not activated, the option to Synchronize Contacts
• Once the previous step is finished, go to your Chrome, Firefox or any other browser, and access your email account, something that you can do both from your smartphone as well as from the PC
• Once inside the email account, go to Gmail, where you will notice all the available options, and one of them is Contacts
• In this menu go to Switch to the previous version and then to Reset contacts
• There you will have to decide how much time you want to go back to make sure that all your contacts that you had added come back, so that you have recovered them in just a little while, and when you finish, click Reset

Of course you can deal with problems, in which case you have not saved your contacts by default in the mail, but if you saved them on the SIM card or in applications like WhatsApp, you can still get them back. But if this method has worked for you, you may get problems like duplicate contacts, but there is no reason to worry as they are easy to remove.

Recover deleted numbers on iOS

On iOS too we have a simple mechanism, which in this case requires that we also use Apple’s iCloud service:

• Go from your mobile or computer to iCloud and log in with your account
• Once you have done it, go to Settings, Advanced, and select the option Restore contacts
• A new window will open with the dates on which you have recently made backup copies of your contacts, so that you will have to select the one that you consider to be the correct one for this case, by clicking on the option that appears to the right of each date, restore

If you have any problems when performing this procedure, you can contact the iOS support, who are always available to help their users to solve problems, but recover the deleted contacts Usually, it is simple, so you don’t need to worry.

Can phone numbers be retrieved from a SIM card?

We did not want to end without answering this question, which is one of the most common that readers often ask us.

Basically we have to say that if you have a SIM card, you will be in a position to recover the contacts just by inserting it into your resetted mobile or new mobile, taking into account that if you go from one company to another they will make the transfer themselves.

Instead, if you don’t have a SIM card and you have not made backup copies, Like the ones we have mentioned before, there will be no way for you to recover your contact list, this being one of the main reasons to do them from time to time.