When I deleted my Yahoo email account from my iPhone, I lost most of my contacts

I had an apple account; however, when I deleted my Yahoo email account from my iphone I lost most of my contacts. Can I restore them? If so how?


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iPhone 12, iOS 15

Posted on Sep 29, 2022 7:22 AM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2022 9:03 AM

You were using Yahoo as your default Contacts source, so when you deleted the Yahoo account the contacts went with it. As your Yahoo account is the only source for those contacts you will have to add it back (if you can), or access it some other way and copy the contacts to a different contact source (such as iCloud).

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Sep 29, 2022 9:03 AM in response to susan.demas

You were using Yahoo as your default Contacts source, so when you deleted the Yahoo account the contacts went with it. As your Yahoo account is the only source for those contacts you will have to add it back (if you can), or access it some other way and copy the contacts to a different contact source (such as iCloud).

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