All the contacts on my iPhone 14 are not backing up to the cloud

I accidentally deleted the notes section in one of my contacts on my phone. I need to get them back so I went to icloud to find the contact there, and it's not being backed up...along with a lot of other contacts on my phone. Is there any way to find the one contact now? And how do I get the rest of my contacts backed up properly?

iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 20, 2025 1:54 PM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2025 2:46 PM

We need to be clear about two very different concepts:


From your post, it’s not clear whether you use iCloud for Contacts. If you do, your contacts may possibly be retrieved this way, and are certainly not in an iCloud backup.

Use iCloud.com to restore and recover iCloud information - Apple Support

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Oct 20, 2025 2:46 PM in response to dianefrombrunswick

We need to be clear about two very different concepts:


From your post, it’s not clear whether you use iCloud for Contacts. If you do, your contacts may possibly be retrieved this way, and are certainly not in an iCloud backup.

Use iCloud.com to restore and recover iCloud information - Apple Support

Oct 22, 2025 5:07 AM in response to sberman

Hi. I did try that and my iCloud only had a portion of all my contacts. It looks to me like any of my contacts that were associated with my gmail account were not there. I've tried looking at gmail contacts and can't get to them that way. I have Contacts selected in iCloud for Contacts. All I know is all of them are not in icloud.com when I look.

Thanks.

All the contacts on my iPhone 14 are not backing up to the cloud

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