How can I get my contacts from my email after I deleted the email account?

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i deleted email account

When delete email account all contacts are gone as well. I proceed to backup to see if I can get it back but no luck.any suggestions

 

[Tartarus]

i deleted email account

Just go to settings > Mail, calendar and contacts and add that mail account back.

Don't bother with backups in this matter

 

[Ledsteplin]

i deleted email account

When you add the email back, be sure "contacts" is toggled on. If you don't want that email account, then you need to make those contacts iCloud contacts. Then you can delete the email. Check to be sure you have "contacts" toggled on for iCloud.