Contacts disappeared after IOS 18 update.

My contacts are messed up too, after the 18 update. I have contacts from five years ago but not recent ones. Wth! All I did was do the update and this happens. Aren’t the updates suppose to be tested first? I’m surprised at Apple. I hear there’s no fix?? I’m very disappointed.

Same and majorly frustrated with apple engineers!!! I’ve already spent 5 hours with ‘senior’ support only to find out they can’t help me. I’ve been backing up daily to iCloud for 2 years and there are only 10 backups to restore from? Wtf is that? I pay for 2TB of Icloud and am only using less than 500GB. I was able to recover some but not all from a backup a week before I updated. To make matters worse, when I use siri to place a call to a contact, it brings up the correct contact information but connects me to an entirety different contact. Talk about road rage when you're hands free doing 70 on the highway! At some point I was asked to RESET MY IPHONE and recover from backuo only to find out I had lost every account on MS Authenticator. GRrrrrrr! I'm on a 14 pro and it's now sluggish as h3ll with crashing apps. What a huge disappointment 😩 Senior support person let me know they don't even use contacts and prefer the Google contact manager! Where did 2 years of backups go?

Your contacts and appointments are likely tied to one of your email accounts. Are your email accounts installed on your device and up to date?

IOS 18 wiped out my contacts on my iPhone and my iCloud account.

I didn’t turn anything off I just applied the update.

From what I’ve read there is nothing Apple can do to fix the issue.

IOS not only wiped out ALL of my contacts on my main iPhone, it wiped out ALL of my APPOINTMENTS.

I am not going to update my two other iPhones!

Hi, sorry. All my contacts are completely wiped out from all my devices and iCloud. How did you get it back?

Upgraded to 18.2 last night. This morning noticed one person on whatsapp didnt show the name just the number. Lost contact indeed. This is inacceptable i canceled my order for iPhone 16 Pro, will get a Samsung instead.

After updating to 18 I have contacts from 15 years ago, but not from the last year.... I spent an hour via chat and phone with apple support and I have no backups recorded before the IOS 18 update. Crazy since I've changed phones and never had these issues before! SOOO Frustrating

You might have accidentally turned off contacts in the icloud.

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What type of device are you using when looking up your account? Maybe try changing devices or resetting phone.

Thank you! Signed into all of my mail accounts and my contacts are back!

I just went to mail in the settings and made sure I was signed into all of my email accounts. I also made sure that the toggle for “Contacts” under each account was on.

When is iOS 19 on the way, LOL?

Same for me on the last two IOS updates in the last six months. Last time it saved 17, and this time it was 17, then went to 15. Friends, and family only.