I sync all my contacts to my previous Hotmail aka Stay aka Outlook.com account.
As we speak I wanted to look somebody up by Outlook.com / Individuals web-interface (usually I simply do it on my telephone) and I realised her contact shouldn’t be there, whereas it’s on my iPhone. I went to telephone settings -> Contacts -> Accounts -> Outlook and it stated this account wants re-authenticating. I went by authentication, which went by efficiently.
The contacts on my iPhone that aren’t on Outlook.com are uploaded to Outlook.com
The contacts that had been on my iPhone however weren’t on Outlook.com had been by no means uploaded to Outlook.com. As an alternative they acquired deleted from my iPhone with none warning.
- The deleted folder on Outlook.com / Individuals is empty
- In my iOS Contacts app, in Teams (arrow again on high left in most important view) it reveals “All Outlook” listing/group solely, there is not any “Deleted” listing or “On my iPhone” listing. That “All Outlook” listing used to say I had 119 contacts, now it says 110.
Is there any method I might get my contacts again?
My newest telephone iCloud backup is from yesterday. I can erase my telephone now and restore from the yesterday backup, however my concern is: it is a severe step and it must be one thing of final resort. I’m additionally involved one thing else can go unsuitable, and I am going to lose greater than 9 contacts. My belief in issues working as anticipated shouldn’t be the best now – for instance, this complete scenario should not have occurred within the first place, the telephone ought to have requested if I wish to merge contacts earlier than deleting them AND/OR have some type of recycle bin folder from which I can restore. I feel it was once like that, however not anymore.
Is there something that I am lacking? This reply right here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254833042?sortBy=rank makes it appear you’ll be able to toggle contacts sync and so they could come again, however it’s iCloud-specific, and my iCloud contacts are turned off.
That is iOS 17.5.1
