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Lost Contacts After Deleting Email on Iphone (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by TraditionalMethod955@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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Hey all --

I was getting this really annoying prompt every time I saved a contact in Whatsapp to use my gmail password.

Not really thinking about it, I tried just deleting that gmail account from my phone's settings. This deleted ALL MY CONTACTS from my phone. I have since added that account back, but the contacts didn't come back.

Has anyone dealt with this? I can't see the contacts anywhere -- they aren't synced in icloud, they aren't in google contacts, they aren't on my phone. Are they just gone? This totally sucks -- I had no idea they'd be wiped from everything just because I unlinked my gmail from my phone.

Can anyone save the day for me or am I hosed?

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[–] worthless_shroom@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just re-add your gmail account. Settings > contacts > accounts > add account and sign into your Gmail > make sure contacts are toggled on and your contacts should come back.

[–] TraditionalMethod955@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I tried that and a variety of other fixes. nada.