How to recover Old Phone Number Back? How do I Retrieve Deleted numbers on iphone and android

Have you recently changed your phone and lost all your contacts? You definitely know how frustrating it is to get all of them back. You may get back all of your accounts from google backup or iCloud. But if you have not backed up before, there are still some ways you can get your phone number back. 

We have suggested some tips about recovering your old personal and contact lists. 

For your Personal Old number:

If you have not used your Mobile number in the last six months, there might be a chance that the SIM card will deactivate after a certain period, and the mobile number is recycled. To an extent, it will be given to somebody else. So you have to first check whether your number is assigned to someone or not by calling your number. If not, follow the below steps.

• Try to request reactivation of your SIM card to respective customer care.
• Visit the nearest customer care store and submit a reactivation request.
• Provide Address and Identification
• You will shortly receive an authentication call from the carrier company, and then your number will be reactivated. If it is given to somebody else, then it couldn’t get back to you.

Park your Phone Number

Parking your phone number is a service offered by most carriers companies. It allows the user to keep the phone number without any service plan. Parking is convenient for international travel and other times when you don’t require a domestic phone plan. Without a porting or parking program, the phone number returns to the carrier. 

Parking is a fee-based service; the company charges a small amount every month to maintain the phone number. 

The parked number is easily transferred to another service provider if you have decided to open an account under a different carrier in the future. When opening a parking plan, make sure the carrier allows the number to port without additional fees in the future.

Check Your Online Shopping Address

If you are constantly shopping online, the old shopping address must keep your old phone numbers to update you about package status. As long as you have those addresses, you can find your old phone number.

Check Your Membership Info

Check your local gym, restaurant, or any other member services information. If you have contracts with different services during the same time period as you owned your previous phone number, you probably used that phone number when you signed the contract.

Check Your Credit Report or Bank Information

Checking your credit report or bank information is another way to find your old phone number because your previous address and phone numbers are often listed in the “Identity” section of your credit report. You probably used them when you signed up for it or submitted an application. Also, when you get a new card at the bank, you might fill out the application with your previous phone number, so checking out all your bank info may be helpful.

Ask Your Friends or Families

Your old phone numbers may still be saved on other people’s contact lists. So, checking with friends and families is a good idea. Ask your friends or family, especially your families. They probably have every phone number you’ve ever used saved in their phone or somewhere.

For your Contact List:

Check Your Old Phone Bills

Phone bills are sent by Mail or Message, and they have a list for all your incoming and outgoing call lists. You can recover by retrieving all the calling history in the past few months and saving them accordingly. Some bills are received in digital form and they do not come with any calling history but you can request them and it will be provided right away.

Scan all old Emails

Most email companies keep your mail on their servers for up to four years, and you may have emailed your phone number to someone before. So, check all the email services you have used. 

Find the old SIM card.

The old SIM card that you may have changed when moved to a new phone had the old number and contacts. If you didn’t throw it away and have it with you, you could get the number off.

Speak to the Phone Company

If you want to get back your personal phone number, not the contact list, you should speak to the phone or carrier company. 

If the number hasn’t been reallocated to someone else, you can request it; they may charge for this, but if the number has been reused and given to another user, then you’ve lost it unless you could persuade the other party to give it up.

Check Hidden Contact list to Recover Phone Numbers on Android

Suppose you can’t find the missing phone numbers on your Android phone. In that case, you must look for the hidden contacts in your phone; there is a chance that your numbers are not deleted but are just hidden.

To check the hidden contact list on Android phones, follow these step-by-step instructions:

Step 1. Click on the Contacts app on your phone.

Step 2. Click the menu icon given in the top-right corner of the screen.

Step 3. Tap on the Contacts to display options.

Step 4. Choose All contacts.

Step 5. Now, check for the missing phone numbers. If you can’t find any contacts, then they must be deleted from the device.

To show the hidden contacts on iPhone from the Contacts app:

Step 1. Click your Contacts app.

Step 2. Click the Contact icon at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3. Tap “Groups” at the top-left corner.

Step 4. Tap “Show All Contacts.”

To unhide contacts on iPhone via the Settings:

Step 1. Go to your Settings > Contacts > Groups.

Step 2. From the Group page, choose “Show All Contacts.”

Syncing your contacts

Follow these steps:

1. Open Contact application
2. Setting(Setting From Contact)
3. Sync Contact
4. Select Google from the list
5. Google will ask Email And Password
6. Enter your OLD smartphone Email Address and Password(Play Store ID)
7. After Successful Login into Gmail
8. All your Old Cell Phone Contacts will automatically synchronise in your new device.
9. Open Contact List.

You will probably see your contact list if you have toggled on the sync option on your last phone.

It is safe to turn on AUTO SYNC in your smartphone to protect your contact and messages and other personal saved settings. (So you can get back that contact and other essential things when you lost the phone or broke your phone accidentally with the help of the above method).

Backup Data

Check on all the backup accounts you created; companies like Google, Samsung, and Apple automatically save data even if you are not aware of it. You might find your lost contacts from any one of your accounts.

Recovering from Samsung Account

If you own a Samsung phone, the Samsung account may have all your contacts stored, and you need to log in and retrieve all the information. Here is a step by step guide on how to do it:

• Open phone’s Settings.
• Click Accounts.
• Click on the Samsung Account option.
• Next, click on the Restore option.
• Now, you will see different data such as call logs, contacts, messages, etc. Select the Contacts option and tap on the RESTORE  button.
• Finally, click the confirm button and wait for a while until your device restores the data.

There is a possibility that you will get your old phone numbers back because this option is activated automatically when you set up your Samsung device. The restoring method can take some time, sometimes more than 15 minutes.

Conclusion

So these were the possible solutions to get your old phone number back, either your personal number or your contact list. We suggested speaking to the phone company to get your private phone number back. Still, it is only possible if not allocated to anyone else. 

If you can’t remember your old phone number, you can find them from your online shopping address, check membership info, check your bank or credit info. These all forms require your personal phone number, and by contacting one of these companies, there are chances you will get to know your old phone number.

Suppose you have lost your contact list while switching phones or had an accident. In that case, you should try looking for your old SIM card, try to look in backup or iCloud services, speak to the phone company, check your old phone bills, sync your contacts, check hidden contacts to recover phone numbers or lastly, you can post on social media to ask for everyone phone numbers by telling them you lost your contacts. 

We hope that any of the tricks will work to solve your problem. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know. We would love to take a look at it.

How to recover Old Phone Number Back? How do I Retrieve Deleted numbers on iphone and android

Have you recently changed your phone and lost all your contacts? You definitely know how frustrating it is to get all of them back. You may get back all of your accounts from google backup or iCloud. But if you have not backed up before, there are still some ways you can get your phone number back. 

We have suggested some tips about recovering your old personal and contact lists. 

For your Personal Old number:

If you have not used your Mobile number in the last six months, there might be a chance that the SIM card will deactivate after a certain period, and the mobile number is recycled. To an extent, it will be given to somebody else. So you have to first check whether your number is assigned to someone or not by calling your number. If not, follow the below steps.

• Try to request reactivation of your SIM card to respective customer care.
• Visit the nearest customer care store and submit a reactivation request.
• Provide Address and Identification
• You will shortly receive an authentication call from the carrier company, and then your number will be reactivated. If it is given to somebody else, then it couldn’t get back to you.

Park your Phone Number

Parking your phone number is a service offered by most carriers companies. It allows the user to keep the phone number without any service plan. Parking is convenient for international travel and other times when you don’t require a domestic phone plan. Without a porting or parking program, the phone number returns to the carrier. 

Parking is a fee-based service; the company charges a small amount every month to maintain the phone number. 

The parked number is easily transferred to another service provider if you have decided to open an account under a different carrier in the future. When opening a parking plan, make sure the carrier allows the number to port without additional fees in the future.

Check Your Online Shopping Address

If you are constantly shopping online, the old shopping address must keep your old phone numbers to update you about package status. As long as you have those addresses, you can find your old phone number.

Check Your Membership Info

Check your local gym, restaurant, or any other member services information. If you have contracts with different services during the same time period as you owned your previous phone number, you probably used that phone number when you signed the contract.

Check Your Credit Report or Bank Information

Checking your credit report or bank information is another way to find your old phone number because your previous address and phone numbers are often listed in the “Identity” section of your credit report. You probably used them when you signed up for it or submitted an application. Also, when you get a new card at the bank, you might fill out the application with your previous phone number, so checking out all your bank info may be helpful.

Ask Your Friends or Families

Your old phone numbers may still be saved on other people’s contact lists. So, checking with friends and families is a good idea. Ask your friends or family, especially your families. They probably have every phone number you’ve ever used saved in their phone or somewhere.

For your Contact List:

Check Your Old Phone Bills

Phone bills are sent by Mail or Message, and they have a list for all your incoming and outgoing call lists. You can recover by retrieving all the calling history in the past few months and saving them accordingly. Some bills are received in digital form and they do not come with any calling history but you can request them and it will be provided right away.

Scan all old Emails

Most email companies keep your mail on their servers for up to four years, and you may have emailed your phone number to someone before. So, check all the email services you have used. 

Find the old SIM card.

The old SIM card that you may have changed when moved to a new phone had the old number and contacts. If you didn’t throw it away and have it with you, you could get the number off.

Speak to the Phone Company

If you want to get back your personal phone number, not the contact list, you should speak to the phone or carrier company. 

If the number hasn’t been reallocated to someone else, you can request it; they may charge for this, but if the number has been reused and given to another user, then you’ve lost it unless you could persuade the other party to give it up.

Check Hidden Contact list to Recover Phone Numbers on Android

Suppose you can’t find the missing phone numbers on your Android phone. In that case, you must look for the hidden contacts in your phone; there is a chance that your numbers are not deleted but are just hidden.

To check the hidden contact list on Android phones, follow these step-by-step instructions:

Step 1. Click on the Contacts app on your phone.

Step 2. Click the menu icon given in the top-right corner of the screen.

Step 3. Tap on the Contacts to display options.

Step 4. Choose All contacts.

Step 5. Now, check for the missing phone numbers. If you can’t find any contacts, then they must be deleted from the device.

To show the hidden contacts on iPhone from the Contacts app:

Step 1. Click your Contacts app.

Step 2. Click the Contact icon at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3. Tap “Groups” at the top-left corner.

Step 4. Tap “Show All Contacts.”

To unhide contacts on iPhone via the Settings:

Step 1. Go to your Settings > Contacts > Groups.

Step 2. From the Group page, choose “Show All Contacts.”

Syncing your contacts

Follow these steps:

1. Open Contact application
2. Setting(Setting From Contact)
3. Sync Contact
4. Select Google from the list
5. Google will ask Email And Password
6. Enter your OLD smartphone Email Address and Password(Play Store ID)
7. After Successful Login into Gmail
8. All your Old Cell Phone Contacts will automatically synchronise in your new device.
9. Open Contact List.

You will probably see your contact list if you have toggled on the sync option on your last phone.

It is safe to turn on AUTO SYNC in your smartphone to protect your contact and messages and other personal saved settings. (So you can get back that contact and other essential things when you lost the phone or broke your phone accidentally with the help of the above method).

Backup Data

Check on all the backup accounts you created; companies like Google, Samsung, and Apple automatically save data even if you are not aware of it. You might find your lost contacts from any one of your accounts.

Recovering from Samsung Account

If you own a Samsung phone, the Samsung account may have all your contacts stored, and you need to log in and retrieve all the information. Here is a step by step guide on how to do it:

• Open phone’s Settings.
• Click Accounts.
• Click on the Samsung Account option.
• Next, click on the Restore option.
• Now, you will see different data such as call logs, contacts, messages, etc. Select the Contacts option and tap on the RESTORE  button.
• Finally, click the confirm button and wait for a while until your device restores the data.

There is a possibility that you will get your old phone numbers back because this option is activated automatically when you set up your Samsung device. The restoring method can take some time, sometimes more than 15 minutes.

Conclusion

So these were the possible solutions to get your old phone number back, either your personal number or your contact list. We suggested speaking to the phone company to get your private phone number back. Still, it is only possible if not allocated to anyone else. 

If you can’t remember your old phone number, you can find them from your online shopping address, check membership info, check your bank or credit info. These all forms require your personal phone number, and by contacting one of these companies, there are chances you will get to know your old phone number.

Suppose you have lost your contact list while switching phones or had an accident. In that case, you should try looking for your old SIM card, try to look in backup or iCloud services, speak to the phone company, check your old phone bills, sync your contacts, check hidden contacts to recover phone numbers or lastly, you can post on social media to ask for everyone phone numbers by telling them you lost your contacts. 

We hope that any of the tricks will work to solve your problem. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know. We would love to take a look at it.