1. Connect your iPhone to PC
First of all, connect your iPhone to PC, then run Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS. There are 3 modes available recovery: Recover from your iOS device, Recovering from iTunes Backup and Restore from iCloud backup. Just choose the default selection.
This is what you see when you connect your iPhone 4/3GS. You can choose to go to "Advanced Mode" for further exploration for iPhone. Just click on the button at the lower right corner.
2 . Scans your iPhone looking for deleted contacts
If you use the iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S , you can click directly on the " Start Scan " after connecting the device. Then the program starts scanning your iPhone 5/4S looking for deleted contacts in it.
Hold your iPhone and click the "Start " button.
Press the Power and Home buttons at the same time the iPhone for exactly 10 seconds. The program will count the time for you .
After 10 seconds have passed , immediately release the Power button but keep pressing the Home button . After 10 seconds , it will inform you that you've successfully logged into the system, you can stop pressing the Home button .
When the program begins to analyze the iPhone contacts looking out a window like the following will be displayed.
To retrieve the contacts , select the square in front of contacts and click the Retrieve button, then you can save content on your computer. If needed you can also save the rest of the data.
3. Preview and recover deleted contacts on iPhone
After the analysis, you can preview all the information by Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS. Select "Contacts" category on the left side and you can preview all your contacts out as you can see below, including details thereof such as name, mailing address, and more.
Note: The data found and shown here include those that you have on the iPhone now. If you only want to retrieve the contacts out of it, slide the button at the top of the window to the "deleted items only." Then, mark them and recover them.