Something To Know If You Have An iPhone

[Chili Palmer]

I recently left my employer (not my choice) and made a deal to keep my phone. I was locked out of my company email account (which is understandable), and an email exchange password notice kept coming up so I deleted that email account. Since I did that I have lost over 80% of my contacts. I didn’t back up my phone prior to deleting my account because I didn’t think deleting an email account would be linked to my phone contacts. I have a Verizon cloud that I backed up a month ago, but that didn’t help at all. I think they are gone forever - anybody have any suggestions how I can retrieve them?

 

[eand28]

It sounds like you had your work account set as the default under your contact settings.

 

[Chili Palmer]

It sounds like you had your work account set as the default under your contact settings.

I unknowingly probably did, but didn’t think my contact list would be tied in to an email account.

 

[84miller]

Same here and yes you lost your contacts. I had to change my email address due to fraud. I lost all of my contacts when I changed it on my iphone. I retrieved some numbers from my text messages (could tell the person from our texts), but number only no address or notes. Basically, rebuilding my contact list slowly.

 

[Bajastu]

Perfom a restore and you can choose a backup from the past to be loaded. Depending how you stored your contact contacts, this may bring them back. Always choose to store all contacts on the icloud or a gmail account, not on Micorsoft outlook or on the mail server that is loaded onto your phone.

Always load up a gmail account and choose to have that as the defalt account for contacts, notes, ect....

 

[rivermobster]

I'm about biting my tongue in half over here...

 

[monkeyswrench]

I'm about biting my tongue in half over here...

Yes, but some of us lower tech people like myself, would be crying! That, and digging through my toolbox looking for all the scratch papers I wrote numbers on. I still do that, because I suck at putting numbers in the phone...kind of embarrassing.

 

[Bobby V]

I recently left my employer (not my choice) and made a deal to keep my phone. I was locked out of my company email account (which is understandable), and an email exchange password notice kept coming up so I deleted that email account. Since I did that I have lost over 80% of my contacts. I didn’t back up my phone prior to deleting my account because I didn’t think deleting an email account would be linked to my phone contacts. I have a Verizon cloud that I backed up a month ago, but that didn’t help at all. I think they are gone forever - anybody have any suggestions how I can retrieve them?

Were the 80% related to your job. Or were they personnel also. I retired a year ago and still have my old company e mail that I never use. Just checked my default settings and mine is on my own GMail account.

 

[HNL2LHC]

Yes, but some of us lower tech people like myself, would be crying! That, and digging through my toolbox looking for all the scratch papers I wrote numbers on. I still do that, because I suck at putting numbers in the phone...kind of embarrassing.

There are easy ways to do it Kevin. Just got to get in the habit. Low tech have the person call or text your number then you just save it. High tech get an electronic business card. Only about $60. Then you can tape data into their phone. Have them then share their contact.

 

[rivermobster]

Yes, but some of us lower tech people like myself, would be crying! That, and digging through my toolbox looking for all the scratch papers I wrote numbers on. I still do that, because I suck at putting numbers in the phone...kind of embarrassing.

Dude...

"Hey man, I lost all my phone numbers, can you give me yours again?"

- Said no Android user, EVER!

 

[attitude]

Yes, but some of us lower tech people like myself, would be crying! That, and digging through my toolbox looking for all the scratch papers I wrote numbers on. I still do that, because I suck at putting numbers in the phone...kind of embarrassing.

Lol, I am the same way. I still have a buddy from high school who’s number I don’t have saved, I just know when I get a call or text from a 310 number that it’s him.

 

[Icky]

Dude...

"Hey man, I lost all my phone numbers, can you give me yours again?"

- Said no Android user, EVER!

If i delete my work outlook email, it will remove those contacts from my android

 

[Singleton]

google contacts solved this issue for me.
I used the IPhone default, but phone was damaged and lost all contacts.
Defaulting to exchange links your contacts to your company exchange account.

while I dislike Google, the contact app made the most sense. Easily transferable between devices

 

[bilz]

No problem on my android. Half hour out the door and city if la deleted my shit. All my city contacts stayed in google. Don't trust that low hangin' fruit phone for nothin'.

Not a big fan of google either. This new sammy I'm using wants to play google and Samsung. It's a freaking battle. I loved my last Motorola.

 

[rivermobster]

If i delete my work outlook email, it will remove those contacts from my android

Outlook is not part of your phone, it's a completely separate app.

Unless you are running Exchange, all those numbers are stored on that device ONLY.

It's a pain. I've been contemplating upgrading to exchange myself. It's not a whole lot of money.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/exchange-online

 

[DILLIGAF]

I got a new Proton email after 30 years of using my business email. It allowed me to move over all my contacts from Outlook Exchange to the Proton account. This is also all on my IPhone. Worked as told and happened quickly. It also allowed me to move over all my old emails to Proton.

Cut down on crap BS emails by 99.9%

I made sure to do this all before stopping the old Outlook Exchange email of course. Don't forget to change all your emails on your banks and other important locations beforehand as well.

 

[monkeyswrench]

... High tech get an electronic business card. Only about $60. Then you can tape data into their phone...

I come from a world of hammers and wrenches...what type of black magic things do you business people have

 

[rivermobster]

I come from a world of hammers and wrenches...what type of black magic things do you business people have

I'm wondering about this myself?

I got a new Proton email after 30 years of using my business email. It allowed me to move over all my contacts from Outlook Exchange to the Proton account. This is also all on my IPhone. Worked as told and happened quickly. It also allowed me to move over all my old emails to Proton.

Cut down on crap BS emails by 99.9%

I made sure to do this all before stopping the old Outlook Exchange email of course. Don't forget to change all your emails on your banks and other important locations beforehand as well.

Did you not like Exchange? What was the problem with it??

 

[ChumpChange]

I'm about biting my tongue in half over here...

Go be poor with your green text bubbles somewhere else.

 

[rivermobster]

Go be poor with your green text bubbles somewhere else.

You realize Apple is getting sued up the ass for this?

Along with all the other freaking law suits they are fighting, just cause they are douche bags?

They are the Robbie Gordon of the cell phone world!

 

[Andy B.]

You realize Apple is getting sued up the ass for this?

Along with all the other freaking law suits they are fighting, just cause they are douche bags?

They are the Robbie Gordon of the cell phone world!

Android all the way!!

 

[ChumpChange]

You realize Apple is getting sued up the ass for this?

Along with all the other freaking law suits they are fighting, just cause they are douche bags?

They are the Robbie Gordon of the cell phone world!

I know. Because they make poor people with Androids feel like red headed (green) step children? Sounds like the liberal left crying because they can’t have pretty blue bubbles.

 

[Bajastu]

I come from a world of hammers and wrenches...what type of black magic things do you business people have

I designed QR codes for all business cards within the company. In this day and age, no one hands out business cards anymore. Just scan the QR code and it adds all the data straight into your contacts. It works with iPhones and Obama green bubble phones too.

 

[rivermobster]

I know. Because they make poor people with Androids feel like red headed (green) step children? Sounds like the liberal left crying because they can’t have pretty blue bubbles.

Really?

Sounds like the libtard cancel culture to me!

"We know our Shit sucks, but we have to do away with the competition somehow!"

And the sheeple shall follow, regardless.

 

[rivermobster]

I designed QR codes for all business cards within the company. In this day and age, no one hands out business cards anymore. Just scan the QR code and it adds all the data straight into your contacts. It works with iPhones and Obama green bubble phones too.

 

[ChumpChange]

View attachment 1378657

Looks like malware to me. I won’t let you take over my phone.

 

[Riverbottom]

Thats why I have my contacts in a Rolodex.

 

[rivermobster]

Looks like malware to me. I won’t let you take over my phone.

Scan it! I made just for you.

 

[Taboma]

Hmmmm, so the QR code is the "Sign of the Beast" future human infants will be tattooed with at birth so we' be "Scannable" ??

 

[DILLIGAF]

I'm wondering about this myself?




Did you not like Exchange? What was the problem with it??

Over that chapter of my life. Time to cut it off

 

[monkeyswrench]

I designed QR codes for all business cards within the company. In this day and age, no one hands out business cards anymore. Just scan the QR code and it adds all the data straight into your contacts. It works with iPhones and Obama green bubble phones too.

I look at phones like cars. Some are Ford dorks, others Chevy. Some are iPhone freaks, others Android. I don't really give a flying crap. I actually like going places no phone works. I've had both Apple and Android. In my lines of work, an android will do what I need, and seems to last longer. Some people get the newest phone when it comes out, so that's not an issue. Yes, I have an "Obama Phone" now, but I could still get laid with a flip phone. I'm not closing million dollar deals, so a 300$ phone works for me.

 

[rivermobster]

I look at phones like cars. Some are Ford dorks, others Chevy. Some are iPhone freaks, others Android. I don't really give a flying crap. I actually like going places no phone works. I've had both Apple and Android. In my lines of work, an android will do what I need, and seems to last longer. Some people get the newest phone when it comes out, so that's not an issue. Yes, I have an "Obama Phone" now, but I could still get laid with a flip phone. I'm not closing million dollar deals, so a 300$ phone works for me.

iPhones are usually free.

They know most people won't pay for their crap!

 

[HNL2LHC]

I come from a world of hammers and wrenches...what type of black magic things do you business people have

Here is some reading for those interested. Card can have chip and/or QR Codes. They can be light weight plastic or metal.

The 13+ Best Digital Business Cards 2025 (Ultimate Guide) - Samantha Brandon

If you're ready to transition from limited physical business cards to digital business cards, I've tested every major product on the market to help you make the switch.

samanthabrandon.com

 

[RiverDave]

Dude...

"Hey man, I lost all my phone numbers, can you give me yours again?"

- Said no Android user, EVER!

“Pass the grey poupon”. Also said no android ever..

Go be poor somewhere else with your green texts..

 

[jet496]

Sounds like it was an Exchange account. If you know the password you can easily set it up again to get those contacts. Settings/Accounts/Exchange/email/password & whala.

If I'm creating new contacts on my phone, they are created direct & not thru the exchange server.

 

[rivermobster]

“Pass the grey poupon”. Also said no android ever..

Go be poor somewhere else with your green texts..

Hey, I paid for my phone.

You probably got yours for free? Who would pay for one of those pieces of crap anyway!

 

[monkeyswrench]

Here is some reading for those interested. Card can have chip and/or QR Codes. They can be light weight plastic or metal.

The 13+ Best Digital Business Cards 2025 (Ultimate Guide) - Samantha Brandon

If you're ready to transition from limited physical business cards to digital business cards, I've tested every major product on the market to help you make the switch.

samanthabrandon.com

That's really a pretty trick deal. I think I'll still maintain my status here on the trailing edge of technology though. When Biden turns us into Cuba, we'll need rotary phones again anyway

 

[Racey]

Apple holds your contact list hostage. It takes a bunch of extra steps to move contacts to other accounts or devices

Google is getting worse and worse but their contact management is way better than Apple's.

Last time i had to move contacts off an iPhone i had to use a laptop to get into the icloud account, export it, convert it ... or pay $30 for an app.

Android you can export all your contacts and import them to another account right from the phone, for free, built in.

 

[Bajastu]

Apple holds your contact list hostage. It takes a bunch of extra steps to move contacts to other accounts or devices

Google is getting worse and worse but their contact management is way better than Apple's.

Last time i had to move contacts off an iPhone i had to use a laptop to get into the icloud account, export it, convert it ... or pay $30 for an app.

Android you can export all your contacts and import them to another account right from the phone, for free, built in.

You can log into iCloud and download your contacts for free. Up load to a computer, iPhone, or android easily. Convert into a pdf, or whatever you wish.

 

[Racey]

You can log into iCloud and download your contacts for free. Up load to a computer, iPhone, or android easily. Convert into a pdf, or whatever you wish.

I couldn't get it to work from the phone itself, the export option didn't show up when using safari. Maybe they changed it since then?

In google it's all built right into the app.

 

[Bajastu]

I couldn't get it to work from the phone itself, the export option didn't show up when using safari. Maybe they changed it since then?

In google it's all built right into the app.

iTunes will need to opened on your computer and the phone plugged into a usb port. Once the phone has backed up to the cloud you can open iCloud on the computer, you can drag and drop, edit, export, or copy the whole file to save or upload somewhere else. This same process works for photos.

I unfortunately have the task of maintaining all of the 100+ iPhones along with my normal managment tasks. If it can be ran over with an excavator, dropped on the ground, water, in a bucket of oil, lost, thrown out the window, cut in half, or buried in the dirt, these employees can do it to a phone.

Under normal circumstances I can care or less what an employee stores on the phone but I’ve had to extract data out of the company owned phones and I’m tired of seeing dick pics and nasty ass nude girlfriend pictures in text messages and photos. FML why store this shit on the company owned device?

 

[Chili Palmer]

I’m going to call the IT guy at the company and see if he can log me back into the account and see if my contacts come back and if they do I’ll switch them over to my personal email account.

 

[Bobby V]

I’m going to call the IT guy at the company and see if he can log me back into the account and see if my contacts come back and if they do I’ll switch them over to my personal email account.

That’s what I did when my old company shut off my company e mail. I talked with my old boss and they gave me the new password since I was still getting some contract e mails after I retired. I never cancelled the e mail exchange on my phone though.

 

[paradise]

Dude...

"Hey man, I lost all my phone numbers, can you give me yours again?"

- Said no Android user, EVER!

Storing contacts in exchange isn’t exclusive to ios

 

[paradise]

I’m going to call the IT guy at the company and see if he can log me back into the account and see if my contacts come back and if they do I’ll switch them over to my personal email account.

If nothing else he should be able to export them for you. That’s not a huge ask.

 

[gqchris]

Lesson from an IT person, me, NEVER mix work and personal phones. EVER.

You are lucky they did not have Mobile Device Management enabled on your phone. It can happen when you add exchange account. When you leave, they wipe your phone!

Its just not worth the risk crossing the beams. I carry two phones. Its sucks. But there could be worse things.

 

[gqchris]

I’m going to call the IT guy at the company and see if he can log me back into the account and see if my contacts come back and if they do I’ll switch them over to my personal email account.

Yes he probably wont give you access (we wouldnt) but ask him for a .pst file of your contacts. Or even a .csv spreadsheet. We would have to get permission from Legal and HR for either.

From there you can fire up your personal PC and import into Outlook and then export to csv and import to Google. If you have gmail?

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[Chili Palmer]

I don’t have a gmail account - I’ve got a Verizon email account and now I finally set up outlook on my home computer, it now requires me to set up a .yahoo email account. I haven’t set up a gmail account because I haven’t need it because I haven’t set up any of my electronic items to work from my phone like my Nest thermostat or my TV - I feel the less I’m connected the better when the shit hits the fan and we’re all being monitored and regulated. If we aren’t already.

 

[rivermobster]

Storing contacts in exchange isn’t exclusive to ios

I'm aware. That's why I mentioned it's a Separate app, and isn't part of the phone (any phone).

 

[rivermobster]

I don’t have a gmail account - I’ve got a Verizon email account and now I finally set up outlook on my home computer, it now requires me to set up a .yahoo email account. I haven’t set up a gmail account because I haven’t need it because I haven’t set up any of my electronic items to work from my phone like my Nest thermostat or my TV - I feel the less I’m connected the better when the shit hits the fan and we’re all being monitored and regulated. If we aren’t already.

So I've always wanted to ask this...

What Exactly do you guys think is the Worst case scenario here?