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[iMore Question]

My husband recently started using my old iPhone. I went in and cleaned up old data that was mine without realizing the two phones were both on iCloud. My data on my phone was also cleaned up. Now I've switched off iCloud on his but now can I retrieve my old contact info for my

 

[SwitchBeach]

How did you "clean up the old data"?
Were your contacts synced to an external source?
Do you have recent backup?