How to Restore Contacts from Samsung Galaxy on Mac

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March 10,2015

“Help! I deleted all important contacts on my Samsung Galaxly S6,and I use MacBook Pro,is’t possible to recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy S6 on MacBook? I want to extact all deleted contacts and save them on MacBook Pro,please help me, thank you!”--Ask by Ritan

No matter you lost contacts on Samsung Galaxy phone, deleted phone numbers on Samsung devices, or deleting your Samsung Galaxy photos, when you delete a files from the android phone, the file will not disappear at once. The place where stored the file just marked as a place that can reuse. Even the Andriod phone is formatted, be no worry, if you have not overwritten the place, here is your chance to perform an Android Data Recovery for Mac.So,you can recover the lost contacts back from Samsung Galaxy phones on Mac directly.

Retrieve Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4 on Mac

If you accidentally deleted your contacts from your Samsung phone, if you use MacBook and want to recover Samsung contacts and save them on MacBook,you can use this popular Android Data Recovery for Mac program,which enables you to directly scan and recover contacts from Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4, Samsung Galaxy Note 5/4/3/2, Samsung Galaxy A8/A7/A5,ect on Mac.What’s more,the Android Contacts Recovery for Mac also can help you restore Samsung lost videos, photos and text messages, WhatsApp messages on Mac. This Mac Android Data Recovery program is a completely safe, reliable and easy to use.Let’s teach you how to restore Samsung contacts on Mac only four steps.

Android Data Recovery (Mac&Windows) is one excellent Android data recovery software and it will help users find lost or deleted contacts back easily.

Let's teach you two ways to recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy S3, S4, S5, S6, S6 Edge, S7, S7 Edge, Note 3, Note 4, Note 5, etc. on your Mac computer.

Way 1: Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy on Mac via Android Recovery for Mac

Way 2: Restore Samsung Contacts on Mac via Samsung Smart Switch for Mac

Way 1: Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy on Mac

This article is to tell to how to recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy on Mac, you also can follow the same steps to directly recover othre lost data from Samsung on Mac,like photos, videos and music.

1 Download & Install FoneLab

Go to FoneLab Official Website, select the windows or Mac versions through clicking Download for PC or Download for Mac.

2 Run FoneLab on Computer

Launch FoneLab Android Data Recovery on your computer, choose Android Data Recovery and then connect your device to the computer with USB cable.

There are other two options including Broken Android Data Extraction and Android Data Backup & Restore to fix Android OS problems or backup & restore Android data.

3 Enable USB debugging

You can follow the on-screen or below instruction to enable USB debugging.

Android 2.0-2.3.x: Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Android 3.0-4.1.x: Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging

Android 4.2.x-Android 5.0 Lollipop: Go to Settings > About phone or About tablet, tap Build Number a few times till you see You are now a developer!, and then back to Developer Options under Settings app, to tick the box next to USB debugging.

4 Choose Scanning File Type

Tick the boxes of the file types you want to recover, click the green Next button in the bottom right corner. If you want to recover all Android data on the device, you can check the box next to Select All.

5 Get Privilege

The program will need the privilege to read your device data so you should follow the on-screen instruction root your device.

The program will ask you to install the root app to your device and then tap Allow/Authorize/Grant on the pop-up window on your device once the app is installed successfully. Then it will begin to root and scan your data.

6 Select Recoverable Files

So, you can see all recoverable data after the scanning is done. Click the file type from the left column, and then tick the items you want to get back. Click Recover.

If you want to find the items you want effectively, you can turn on the button on the top of the window to display the deleted items only.

7 Choose Folder & Recover

You can get a pop-up window to show you the path that to save the recovered data and you can change the path as you like, click Recover again.

Notes:Before recovery, don’t add any data on Samsung Galaxy, or it will be overwritten and never be recovered.

With the help of Android Data Recovery(Mac), you can also recover lost contacts from android phone on Mac as well. Just try it for free.

Way 2: Restore Samsung Contacts on Mac via Samsung Smart Switch

Smart Switch for Mac can help you backup and restore Samsung contents on Mac,including contacts, text messags, photos, videos and other files. If you have make Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4 or Note 5/4 backup before with the help of Smart Switch for Mac, then only one click, you can restore your contacts to Samsung Galaxy from the backup on Mac.

Step 1. Run Smart Switch on your Mac computer, and connect your Samsung Galaxy to Mac via USB cable.
Step 2. Tap “Restore” > “Change data to restore” and choose the contacts files you want to restore from.
Step 3. Select “Contacts” from the listed file types and click “OK”, then click on “Restore now” to restore contacts back to your Samsung phone from backup.

restore Samsung ccontacts via Smart Switch

What’s More about Android Data Recovery(Mac):

D.Fone Android Data Recovery for Mac is the world’s first android contacts recovery for Mac,this powerful and popular Mac data recovery software for Android usrs to recover sms, contacts, photos, videos, android document on Mac.What’s more,it allows you restore formatted files from SD card on Mac,which inside of your Android smartphones/tablets.

-Recover deleted or lost contacts and SMS text messages directly from your Android smartphone on Mac.
-Retrieve photos, video, audio files and document from SD cards inside your Android device on your MacBook, no matter they are lost because of factory resetting, accidently deleting, flashing ROM, rooting, etc.
-Multiple Android smartphones and tablets are supported, including Samsung, Google Pixel, Nexus, Sony, HTC, Motorola, LG and more.
-Read and recover Android data with 100% safety and quality. No personal info leaking.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or above (macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey)

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