How to Recover Lost Contacts and Messages on Your Smartphone

Data loss on smartphones can occur as a result of mistakes or accidents on the part of Smartphone owners. Contacts and messages can be wiped off in one fell swoop, leaving Smartphone owners stranded as many of them depend on their contacts and information stored in messages for their daily bread. Now, how do you recover from such damaging losses? This question can only be answered using technologies introduced by Smartphone manufacturers and third-party app developers. It should be noted that the data recovery process apply differently to the various mobile OS platforms. We shall explain the steps needed achieve data recovery process on both Android and iOS based devices shortly.

How to recover lost contacts and messages on Android Smartphones

Some people may be wondering if there are procedures for recovering lost contacts and messages on Android smartphones, especially deleted contacts or messages. I tell you, there is a way. When you delete or lose contacts accidentally on your Android device, the contacts aren't completely wiped off. Instead, they are kept in a temporary trash can pending when newer entries overwrite your deleted contacts. But to improve your chances of recovering lost contacts on your Android device, it's advisable for you to stop using your Smartphone after losing data.



Now, the first step you will need to take in other to restore your lost contacts and messages on your Android device is to download the Android contacts recovery program on your PC. It is available on both the Windows and Mac based platforms. This fantastic program is used to recover lost contacts, messages, pictures and video, directly on your Android device. Note! You should understand that the Android recovery manager isn't compatible with all Android-based devices, only a selected few, mostly from the high-end category.

Step 1. Connect your Android Device

You’ll need to connect your Android Compatible gadget to the computer where you have downloaded the Android recovery manager and then activate "USB debugging" on your Smartphone. You can activate the USB debugging process by going to your settings, click applications, click "Developer options" and then tick USB debugging.

Step 2. Analyze and Scan your Android Gadget

You'll need to analyze and scan your Android gadget for lost contacts. To do this, you'd have to wait for the computer to detect and analyze your device. It is only after a successful recognition and analysis, that you can scan your Android device. You'd have to wait a few seconds for the analysis process to conclude, and then you'll be prompted to grant a Superuser request. To grant the superuser request, just click the Allow button when it prompts you to do so.

Step 3. Preview and Restore

Once the program is through with the scanning process, it will present you a list of contacts and messages that have been scanned out. It's now time for you to select the contacts or messages you wish to restore, and when you are done, you can hit the recover button. It will now recover those lost contacts and messages and save them on your computer.

How to recover lost contacts and Messages on iPhone (iOS based Devices)

The process for deleted contact recovery is almost similar to that of Android base smartphones and devices. But iOS based platforms have different procedures for data recovery for their various platforms. Here, we are more concerned about recovering lost contacts on iPhones since it's the most popular gadget in Apple's portfolio.



Step 1. Install the iPhone data recovery program

This should be your first step in the data recovery process. After installation, it’s time for you to connect your iPhone to your PC and hit the recovery mode button to begin the scan.

Step 2. Recover lost contacts

Once you are through with scanning process, which should bring up contacts and messages lost or accidentally deleted. Choose the contacts and messages you want to restore, and then hit the recover button.

IPhones have another procedure which allows people to recover lost contacts from iTunes backup. You'll need to, first and foremost, start iPhone data recovery and then select from the list, that is displayed, the data you want to recover. For this article, it is the contact and messages we are concerned about, your choice may be different.

In conclusion, the ability to recover lost contacts and messages is one of the beauties of modern technologies. It’s always advisable for you to backup your important contacts and messages, and not wait till you lose them before initiating the recovery process. It must be noted that the recovery for lost contacts and messages isn’t 100% yet, so there is the possibility that you might never recover certain contacts and messages. Avoid overly using your Smartphone, especially after suffering a significant data loss, so as to increase your chances of recovering your deleted contacts and messages.


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