Recover the Lost Contacts Caused by a Failed iOS Update

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• Recover the Lost Contacts Caused by a Failed iOS
  Update
• Although not like the forked Android
  updates that come almost each month, if not each
  week (Actually there is one tailored Android OS
  called MIUI which offers weekly updates to its
  fans), iPhone users do receive iOS update pushes
  at least once a year. Performing a system update
  can bring a lot of goodies, like the added new
  features, the fixed bugs, and sometimes even the
  all new design however, there are times when
  users experience unpleasant things during the
  update process.

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• Among those unpleasant incidents, the most
  commonly seen one is dead screen of white Apple
  logo, caused by some mysterious reason which is
  still unknown to many. When people finally got
  the phone to be working like normal again, some
  of them surprisingly found that something was not
  right with the phone, like some of the Contacts
  were gone, and there was no way to get them back,
  simply because they did not make the phone in
  time for backup with iTunes or iCloud. Well, this
  is quite understandable, because they did not
  expect such thing to happen, or else, they would
  have done the backup thing.
• So, are the missing Contacts gone forever? Not
  exactly! With an iOS data recovery software,
  there is possibility to get the lost data back.
  There are many such programs nowadays for such
  kind of un-expectations, most of which are
  shareware, meaning you have to pay a license fee
  for it to get working. Well, money is not the
  problem, the point is that the iOS data recovery
  tool should be able to help iPhone users who are
  suffering from the pain of data loss due to the
  unsuccessful iOS update to get the missing data
  back. As long as the job can be done, the money
  is well spent.
• Normally, an iOS data recovery software does its
  job via three different ways. Among these
  methods, the first one is the most direct one,
  which is to scan the iPhone directly and analyze
  what is missing and then let users to recover the
  named data, like a Contact item, a short text
  message, etc the other two methods are somewhat
  indirect, because they both require users to call
  in iTunes or iCloud, as the software will have to
  retrieve the lost data from a previous iTunes or
  iCloud backup file. Under the above mentioned
  circumstance, the latter two means simply do not
  work, because there is no iTunes or iCloud backup
  file made before the data gets lost.

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• On the other hand, if there is a backup file made
  before data gets lost, then maybe the iOS data
  recovery software is not a must any more, as
  people can get the lost data back via iTunes or
  iCloud straightforward. This is true, but
  personally, I still prefer a 3rd party tool, the
  reason is plain yet solid. iTunes or iCloud
  backup file does not allow users to selectively
  retrieve the only wanted items, but to restore
  the iPhone completely to a previous time point.
  This is quite unfair and not user friendly. While
  with an iOS data recovery software, things get
  better. It will allow you to choose whatever you
  want to recover, leaving the unwanted items
  behind. Some even let users make editings before
  actually perform the recovery, which is really
  wonderful.
• At the end of this article, I would like to
  recommend one piece of such software, which does
  quite an impressive recovery job, and which not
  only recovers Contacts, but also other data
  including Messages, Call History, Notes, Calendar
  Items, Reminders, WhatsApp and Safari Bookmarks
  directly from the iPhone. The software is called
  DVDFab iFoneRestore and it is available at
  http//www.dvdfab.cn/ifonerestore-for-mac.htm.