How to Restore Contacts on Your iPod Touch

Syncing your device via iTunes creates an iTunes backup file, which is a copy of your device at the time of backup. We recommend that you take the time to make regular backups of your device, as it can be a life-saver in times of need! If you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of having your device lost or stolen, you can use a software that can read iTunes backups, such as Enigma Recovery, to view and extract your contacts. In their original format, iTunes backups are difficult to view and are not in a readable format. It is also impossible to restore just one feature, for example contacts, back to your iPod Touch, meaning you would be forced into a full device restore, even if you only want to recover your contacts.

For these reasons, Enigma Recovery can save you both the time and stress of not having access to your important contact information. Even if you no longer have your iPod Touch (if it has been lost or stolen), all you need to do is install Enigma Recovery on your Mac or PC. Once the software has located your backup file, it will extract the deleted contact and display the information you had stored for each contact in a clear, organised format.

Follow our guide below to instantly recover contacts from your iTunes backup file.

You Will Need:

1. A Mac or PC
2. The free or full version of Enigma Recovery
3. The latest version of iTunes
4. An iTunes backup file

Steps:

One of the main features of iCloud backup is its ability to backup contacts to your iCloud account, storing all information relating to a contact that you had entered into your iPod Touch.

With Enigma Recovery software, you can recover deleted contacts from an iCloud backup file. This recovery option is great if you:

• Have lost your iPod Touch
• Your iPod Touch has been stolen
• You do not have an iTunes backup available
• You have been carrying out regular, automatic backups via iCloud

When you delete data on your iPod Touch, including contacts, it is marked as ‘available space’ for new data to be added. Therefore, once you have deleted something from your iPod Touch, we recommend that you do not use your phone or sync via iCloud, as this could result in the deleted data being overwritten. The less you use your iPod after deleting something, the more likely it is that you will be able to recover it.

Using Enigma Recovery software you can access your iCloud backup(s), taken from before you deleted your contacts from your iPod Touch, or before your device was lost or stolen. Keep reading our simple tutorial below to find out more!

You Will Need:

1. A Windows PC or Mac
2. An iCloud backup file
3. The free or full version of Enigma Recovery
4. Your iCloud login details (we will never share these)

Steps:

As we’ve already discussed, the contacts app on our personal digital devices is quickly replacing traditional address books. The easiest way to get the contact information of a friend or family member is to reach for your nearest portable device, such as your iPod Touch.

Despite the convenience of keeping your contact information on your iPod Touch, you might still need to have a physical copy of this data available, or you may want to transfer your contacts to your email provider. Whilst this may have proven tricky in the past, Enigma Recovery can help simplify this process for you.

Once you have recovered the deleted contacts on your device, or retrieved the existing contacts on your device, you can then transfer this data to your Mac or Windows computer. With a number of export options available from within the software, including VCF, XLS, CSV, XML and PDF you can either export the contact information to be printed, or to be transferred to your email client (via VCF).

With Enigma Recovery, you can transfer contacts either directly from your iPod Touch, or from an iTunes or iCloud backup file. The entire process is secure, and our software will not remove or damage any of the contacts information on your iPod Touch or backup file.

You Will Need:

1. A Mac or Windows PC
2. The free or full version of Enigma Recovery
3. An iPod Touch
4. An iCloud or iTunes backup file (if needed)

Steps:

If you’ve lost or deleted contacts from your iPod Touch, you more than likely want to be able to get these back to your device without the need for you to add them manually, or to do a full restore of your device from a backup file. Here at Enigma, we understand how important it is to not only recover your deleted data, but to be able to transfer it back to your device as well.

That’s why one of the key features of Enigma Recovery software is its restore functionality, which enables users to transfer deleted contacts which they feared were lost forever back to an iPod Touch, with our free Restore iOS App. Once you have restored your contacts back to the Restore app on your device, you can then save the data back to the native Contacts application on your iPod Touch. This feature can also be used to transfer existing contacts to your iPod Touch from other iOS devices, such as iPhone or iPad or from an available backup file.

Our tutorial below will walk you the process of restoring both deleted and existing contacts to your iPod Touch. You can rest assured that the transfer of all data back to your device is safe and secure.

To save you manually entering deleted contacts back into your handset, follow the steps below to restore iPhone contacts that have accidentally been deleted.

You Will Need:

1. A Mac or Windows PC
2. The full version of Enigma Recovery
3. An iPod Touch (or backup file if necessary)
4. The Restore app installed on your iPod Touch

Steps