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If SIM card data are deleted accidently, such as contacts or messages, how can you recover them? While iPhones store most data in the device’s internal memory or cloud service, recovering SIM card data is still possible using backups or professional recovery tools.
This guide explores how to recover SIM card data from your iPhone, whether it’s contacts, messages, or other stored information.
Unlike traditional phones, iPhones save most data directly to iCloud or the device's memory instead of the SIM card. However, if you’ve previously synced your SIM card data to the iPhone or iCloud, you can retrieve it through these methods:
If you get a new iPhone and want to get back the original SIM card contacts from the old iPhone, it is super straightforward to sync with the iCloud backups.
Step 1: Tap Settings > Your Name > iCloud > Contacts and toggle on it.
Step 2: If this option has been enabled, toggle it off and enable it again.
Step 3: Tap on Merge option to restore the synced contacts from iCloud to your new iPhone.
If you backed up your iPhone in iTunes, you can restore SIM card data (eg., contacts or messages) included in the backup. But you are unable to restore one type data from the iTunes backup.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the computer you used for backups.
Step 2: Run iTunes (or Finder for macOS Catalina and later). Then choose your iPhone.
Step 3: Locate the BACKUP section of the iPhone and hit on Restore Backup. After that, choose a backup that contains the SIM card data to restore.
Step 4: Finally, the backup data is restored to your iPhone. And you can check the iPhone SIM card data now.
If you want to recover the SIM card message or contacts separately without iCloud backup, iSunshare iOS Data Genius is the best choice. This software is reliable to recover deleted or lost SIM card data for your iPhone.
Install and run iSunshare iOS Data Genius on Windows computer, and then connect your iPhone to computer. When iPhone is detected by computer and iOS Data Genius program, follow the steps below to do.
Step 1: Begin to scan iPhone SIM card data
"Recover from iOS Device" - SIM card data recovery mode is chosen by default, so generally we don't need to choose it again. Just check "I have backed up my device with iTunes" and click Start Scan button.
Step 2: Recover SIM card data from iPhone
After scanning iPhone, SIM card data will be shown in new interface. You can preview them one by one, and make sure which data you would like to restore. Then check or choose data, and tap Recover button to save them on your computer.
In this way, you can extract SIM card data from iTunes backup file if you have backed up iPhone with iTunes. The steps to extract SIM card data from iTunes backup are similar to Option 1. Therefore, we just need to choose data recovery mode and go on like recovering SIM Card data from iPhone directly.
Step 1: Choose SIM card data recovery mode "Recover from iTunes Backup File".
Step 2: Select an iTunes backup file from backup list for iPhone SIM card data recovery.
Step 3: Scan iTunes backup by hitting the Start Scan button.
Step 4: After scanning, preview and recover SIM card data from iPhone backup file. You can choose messages and contacts, and tap Recover to restore SIM card data for iPhone.
Finally, Save recovered SIM card messages and contacts on computer.
Losing SIM card data can be stressful, but with these effective methods, you can easily recover contacts, messages, and other information. Whether you use iCloud, iTunes, or a professional recovery tool like iSunshare iOS Data Genius, there’s a solution for every situation.
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