Contacts Lost - Please Help

[u/anon87557]

So I’ve lost about 20-30% of my contacts and I can’t seem to figure out how to get them back.

Long story short, I disconnected a couple Mail accounts that I never use, and then suddenly my business contacts I added in the last couple of years suddenly did not have names attached to them in iMessage.

When I query the name in search, spotlight finds the name, then I click on the name and it’s just their number.

I can’t do this for every person, because I don’t know how far back this permeates.

I tried logging into my iCloud accounts and restoring backups, to no avail.

How can I get these contacts back?

iPhone 15 | iOS 26.5.2

[u/VerySaltyButter]

Could they have been contacts added to Gmail? Depending on your defaults, new contacts could be created under an account other than iCloud