For some people, call history uncovers their privacy. Subsequently, some iPhone users decide to consistently delete call history. This sounds good, but it may cause problems if you forget to check all the call history on your iPhone and save some significant call numbers to the Contacts application.
Besides, iPhone call history saves limited outgoing and incoming calls, and missed calls, which is 100 records. Even if you don’t delete the call log, you will still lose most of the call history. This is a problem that lead to numerous complaints, but Apple seems not to change it.
Is it possible to see the deleted call history on iPhone? The answer is YES. Then how can you recover call history on iPhone? We have several different methods. Keep reading.
- How to Retrieve Deleted iPhone Call Log without a Computer
- How to Recover Call History on iPhone with iTunes or Finder Backup
- How to Recover Deleted Call History on iPhone without Backup
How to Retrieve Deleted iPhone Call Log without a Computer
For those who have no computer or have no access to a computer currently, there are 3 ways to help you find the deleted calls on iPhone.
Contact Your Carrier
This is the most efficient method for recovering your call logs without a computer. If you can confirm the possession of your account, you will be able to see your deleted calls on iPhone successfully with this method. The carrier company should have complete records of your call log months or even years back. You can contact them to ask for a spreadsheet of the incoming and outgoing calls within a time frame.
Most carrier companies will save the log of both incoming and outgoing calls, but some may not record the incoming calls according to the feedback of some users. If this is your case, check the solutions below.
Delete Some Call History on iPhone
As we mentioned at the beginning, Apple only displays a list of the most recent 100 calls on your iPhone. Actually, they store 1000 calls on some part of your iPhone. If you delete some useless calls that are currently on iPhone, some old calls will appear on your phone. If you are looking for a call record that is not created a long time ago, you can try this method although it is time-consuming.
Restore deleted call history on iPhone from iCloud backup
Assuming that you have an iCloud backup, you can get your call log back from it in a direct manner. No product or computer is required. It is to restore your iPhone from iCloud backup. Please remember that the data on your iPhone will be overwritten by the backup. If that is not a problem, simply follow the steps below.
- Step 1: First ensure that you have an iCloud backup saved and it was made before you delete the call history on your iPhone. Explore to Settings > [device name] > iCloud > Manage Storage > Backups. You can check the backup time there if you have an iCloud backup.
- Step 2: Next open Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone. Then select Erase All Contents and Settings.
- Step 3: Your iPhone will restart. Remember that on the Apps and Data screen, tap Restore from iCloud Backup.
- Step 4: Sign in to iCloud and pick the backup you wish to recover. Wait for the restoration to finish.
You can’t specifically pick a data type to recover. In addition, as the current data will be overwritten by the recovered data during the process, it might be a big loss if the most recent data on your iPhone has not been backed up.
How to Recover Call History on iPhone with iTunes or Finder Backup
You can get back your iPhone call log from iTunes or Finder backup. If you use a Windows computer, it is an iTunes backup. If you use a Mac which is updated to the latest macOS, it is a Finder backup. To recover the deleted call history, you need to restore your iPhone from an iTunes backup that is made before the call log is deleted.
However, same as restoring from iCloud backup, you could lose all currently existing information on the iPhone with this method. If you don’t mind, all you need to do is to follow the steps below on a Windows computer. The steps on Mac are almost the same.
- Open iTunes on your PC.
- Plug the iPhone into the PC using the original USB cable.
- Select your iPhone when it shows up in iTunes.
- Select Restore Backup on the Summary screen.
- Pick the backup that you want to restore.
- Click ‘Restore Backup’ and wait until the process is done.
- Keep the iPhone connected until it restarts.
How to Recover Deleted Call History on iPhone without Backup
If you don’t have an iTunes or iCloud backup, and you are not able to contact the carrier to ask for a copy of your call history, you have the last choice which is to use a third-party tool – iPhone data recovery tool.
Why should you try an iPhone data recovery tool?
No matter whether you deleted the call history or the call history is not displayed by iPhone, you can use an iPhone data recovery tool to get them back.
When you delete some call records on iPhone, they are not really erased from the hardware of your iPhone. They are still there with their location marked as available. That means any new data created on your iPhone can take up the space. Then the deleted call history will be overwritten and permanently vanish. Therefore before the deleted call history gets overwritten, they are recoverable. Here is when an iPhone recovery tool can help. It can search for all the deleted data on your iPhone and get them recovered as before.
If you never delete the call history, and it is just not shown on your iPhone anymore, you can also try an iPhone recovery tool because they can also find the call log that Apple doesn’t display on your device.
Use Wondershare Dr.Fone to recover deleted call history on iPhone
We would like to recommend Wondershare Dr.Fone in this case. The free trial version of this tool allows you to scan your iPhone so that you can check whether the erased information has been recovered or not before purchasing it. Being different from restoring from iCloud or iTunes backup, you can recover the call history to your iPhone without affecting existing data on your iPhone.
Below is how you can recover call history from iPhone with Wondershare Dr.Fone.
Step 1. Connect our iPhone and scan it
Connect the iPhone to your PC. Then run the Dr.Fone program, and from the initial screen, pick the ‘Data Recovery’. When your device is detected, you will see all the data types it can recover. You ought to tap on ‘Call history’ and then the ‘Start Scan’.
Step 2. Preview and recover deleted call history from iPhone
When the program finishes scanning your iPhone, it will show all the call history including the deleted calls that it has found. Now you can choose the calls you deleted and recover them to your iPhone or to the computer.
Your iPhone call history might have been lost or deleted because of different reasons. We hope the above solutions have helped you get your iPhone call log back.
