How to Recover Deleted Contacts on iPhone XR

"Before upgrade my iPhone XR to iOS 14,I just back up my iPhone XR with iTunes before updating for the new update.After back up from 900+ contacts it became 142.so i lost 800+ contacts.how can i recover my lost contacts from iTunes backups?"--Ask by Aaron in apple discussions

"Help! My iPhone XR was stolen yesterday,all of important phone numbers stored on my iPhone,I remember I have back up to iTunes before,but I don't know how to extract contacts from iTunes backups,is it possible to extract and restore iPhone contacts from iTunes backup files? Thank You!"-- Ask by Canton

Many iPhone users search in google about “how to recover contacts without iPhone”, “recover contacts when iPhone was stolen”, “any way restore iPhone contacts from iTunes”,ect. Actually,when your iPhone was lost or stolen,you can get back contacts in 3 ways!

Do new iPhone update and lost all your contacts and other important data? Don't worry,no matter data lost or deleted on your iPhone, you still have chance to get deleted contacts back from iPhone. Generally speaking, if you have synced iPhone to iTunes before,the iTunes will help you back up iPhone.However,you can restore contacts and other data from backup file (iTunes or iCloud),no matter your iPhone was stolen, broken or lose, what if yet haven’t any backup file, then you can also use a iPhone data recovery to scan and recover contact from iPhone directly.

Knowledge: How iTunes backup your iPhone Contacts

As an iPhone user, who tends to manage the content of iPhone with iTunes, must know that iTunes backs up everything of your iPhone first when you sync with it. This will be the warmest thing when you lost your contacts from iPhone. The bad point is that the backup file is not regular file type, but a SQlitedb file, which is not allowed to preview, even access. Sometimes it's encrypted, just for private safe.

iTunes can automatically back up your iPhone contacts and update it every time when you sync it. So you really have a big chance to recover contacts from iTunes backup.So you can extract your contacts from the iTunes backup when you lost your iPhone.

You can Recover Contacts with or without your iPhone

The iPhone Contact Recovery: iPhone Data Recovery provides you 3 recovery mode to recover iPhone contacts:
1)Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone contacts (without iPhone)
2)Directly scan and recover contacts from iPhone (with iPhone 11/XS/XR/X/8/7)
3)Recover iPhone contacts from iCloud Backup Files (without iPhone)

Restore iPhone Contacts in Three Recovery Modes:

To recover iPhone contacts direcctly,or get contacts from the backup file. You need an iPhone contacts recovery tool, and you can have my recommendation here: iPhone Data Recovery(Mac). Besides recovering contacts from iTunes backups, both of the software can also help to scan and directly recover deleted contacts from iPhone 11/XS, iPhone XR/X and iPhone 8/7/6S/6/5S/5, if you didn't lose your iPhone.

You can download the free trial version below to have a try.

 

Let's this article teach you how to extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone contacts,you can also follow other recovery mode (recover iPhone contacts from iCloud Backup files, directly recover contacts from iPhone) to get all lost contacts back!

Scan and Extract iTunes backup to Recover iPhone Contacts

This iPhone contacts recovery program: iPhone data recovery enables you to recover contacts on iPhone from the backup files on iTunes, no matter you are using iPhone 11, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, or iPhone 6, or you just lost it, iPhone/iPad/iPod 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.

Step 1. Choose Recovery Mode

Launch Dr.Fone and click "Data Recovery".

Then choose "Recover iOS Data".

You can see three options on the side here. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File". After then, the iTunes backup recovery tool will detect all iTunes backup files on this computer and display them in the window. You can confirm which one is the one you need according to the date it has been created.

Step 2. Scan Data from iTunes Backup File

Choose the iTunes backup file that contains the data you want to recover and click "Start Scan". It will take a few minutes to extract all data from the iTunes backup file. Be patient.

Step 3. Preview and Recover Data from iTunes Backup

After a few seconds, all data in the backup file will be extracted and displayed in categories. You can preview them one by one before recovery. Then you can selectively mark and recover those you want by pressing the "Recover" button at the bottom. Now contacts, notes and messages can be directly recovered to your iOS device if you keep your iOS device connected with your computer via a USB cable during the recovery process.

Tips: you can see there is a search box in the result window. From there, you can type in the name of a file to search for it.

Tips: What if your iTunes backup file is located somewhere else?

When your iTunes backup file comes from somewhere, such as moved from another computer with a USB drive, how can you preview and get the content from it? There is a way. When you are at the first step, click "Select" under the list of iTunes backup files, and you can flexibly choose the iTunes backup file no matter where you place it.

Then in the pop-up window, preview and target your iTunes backup file. Then click "Start Scan" and you can move on with the step 2 above. It's pretty useful feature.

The contacts you find in the scan result contain those existing in the backup file and those deleted from your iPhone before you made the backup. Both of them have their own color. You can use the button on the top to separate them: Only display the deleted items.

If your iPhone in hand,you can directly recover contacts from iPhone

Note: If you want to import recovered contacts back to your iPhone, you can use iPhone Data Manager to do it in a few clicks.

 

What's More about iPhone Data Recovery:

The iPhone Data Recovery is the World’s 1st iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Emergency data recovery software for personal users recover Lost Contacts, Messages,Photos, Videos, Camera Roll, Photo Library, Message Attachments, Call History and more.

-Selectively browse and retrieve data from iOS devices, iCloud backup and iTunes backup (including encrypted one).
-Retrieve data up to 18 types like photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, call log, voicemail, voice memos, calendars, reminders, etc.
-Recover App data like WhatsApp, Instagram, Flickr, iPhoto, iMovie, Kindle, Keynote, etc.
-Recover lost data for any iPhone/iPad/iPod device due to deletion, device crashed, smashed or broken, device loss, jailbreak, iOS upgrade or factory settings restore.