I sync all my contacts to my outdated Hotmail aka Stay aka Outlook.com account.
In the present day I wanted to look somebody up by way of Outlook.com / Individuals web-interface (usually I simply do it on my cellphone) and I realised her contact isn’t there, whereas it’s on my iPhone. I went to cellphone settings -> Contacts -> Accounts -> Outlook and it stated this account wants re-authenticating. I went by way of authentication, which went by way of 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 prime left in foremost 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 may get my contacts again?
My newest cellphone iCloud backup is from yesterday. I can erase my cellphone now and restore from the yesterday backup, however my concern is: this can be a severe step and it needs to be one thing of final resort. I’m additionally involved one thing else can go fallacious, and I will lose greater than 9 contacts. My belief in issues working as anticipated isn’t the very best now – for instance, this complete state of affairs should not have occurred within the first place, the cellphone ought to have requested if I wish to merge contacts earlier than deleting them AND/OR have some form of recycle bin folder from which I can restore. I believe it was 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 may toggle contacts sync they usually might come again, nevertheless it’s iCloud-specific, and my iCloud contacts are turned off.
That is iOS 17.5.1
