If you accidentally deleted contact in Viber, and then found that the lost identifier of a person you need is needed, do not rush to despair, "in most cases, it is possible to restore the initial state of the address book of the messenger. In the article, we will consider what ways it can be done with Android-smartphone and iPhone.
How to restore remote contact in Viber
Regardless of the reasons why one or another contact was removed from Weber, it is possible to resort to one of several techniques to "in place" and all of them are not characterized by complexity. Next, consider in order how it is possible to restore the entries in the address book of the Messenger installed in the Android and iOS environment.
As for Viber for Windows, the users of this program will have to use one of the instructions applied to the "main" mobile information services mobile client. If the recording "disappeared" from the "contacts" of the desktop variant of the messenger, after manipulations on the smartphone, it will be restored and on the PC by synchronization.
Group
- If the conversation with a user deleted from the address book is not preserved, remember, perhaps you are, and it is the participants of any single group in the messenger. With this position, open Viber and go to group chat.
- In groups it is possible to view the data of this or that participant and save them to the address book of your messenger. We have already described the implementation of this opportunity in a separate article on our website, - use the instructions submitted in it.
Read more: How to find out the phone number of the interlocutor in the group Viber and save it to "Contacts" of the Messenger
Method 2: Backup Messages
If you have provided a regular backup copying history in Viber or made backup messages before you erase the contact from the messenger and remove the chat with it, you can take the following steps to solve the title of this material.
- Open Vaiber and conduct a data recovery procedure from a backup, as described in the material available on our website.
Read more: How to restore correspondence in Viber for Android
- Go to a reconstituted dialog with the user's address book by Viber and execute the previous instruction from this article.
Method 3: Android contacts
Since the ADRODO and Vaiber address books are synchronized, that is, in fact, they are the same list deleted from the messenger information about a particular person can be returned to the place to recover the record in the "contacts" of the phone.
- Depending on the method available and activated on your smartphone, the backup method of contact data of other users, spend their recovery by acting on one of the instructions on our site.
Read more: We restore remote with Android-devices Contacts
- Just in case, check the presence of the Viber access to the "Contacts" OS module and provide this permission if it is withdrawn. The track is next (can be somewhat different depending on the version of the OS Operation and Options android-shell):
- "Settings" Android - "Applications" - "All applications";
- Next: "Viber" - "application permissions";
- The "Contact" switch on the screen that opens should be activated. If this is not so, transfer it to the "Included" position.
- Run Viber. You can already create a chat with a previously remote from "contacts" by the user - after successfully recovery, its data should be re-indulging in the address book of your Messenger.
iOS.
Adapted for use on Apple-devices The Viber messenger version for iPhone allows you to restore remote contacts is not the only way and do it is easy.Method 1: Correspondence
The simplest method of returning the structures is randomly either intentionally information about one or another lice registered in Vaiber in the address book on its device is available for implementation if a recalidation with remote contact has been preserved or you remember which group chats you will participate with it.
- Run Viber on the iPhone and go to the dialog that has been saved after deleting the interlocutor data, or open the group chat, where you and it is simultaneously.
- Navigate to viewing the phone number registered in the face messenger from the chat or group and save its data to "Contacts" of your Weibra. All specified process is described in detail in the following article:
Read more: View the phone number of the interlocutor in Viber for iOS and its preservation in "Contacts"
Method 2: Backup Messages
Despite the fact that contacts are not saved to the information created by the Viber viberia tools if you configured regular backups or made a copy of messages manually until you delete a record from the address book, you can solve the task of its recovery, acting as follows.
- Follow the instructions for restoring the correspondence history in Viber for iOS, the recommendations for this operation are available in the article following the following link:
Read more: Restore correspondence in Viber for iPhone
- After recovering data in the messenger, open the returned chat with a remote contact at the time of creating a backup copy. Now execute the "Method 1: Correspondence" instruction previously proposed in this article.
- In addition to the above, you can scroll through the history of messages in the restored chat to its very beginning, where you find the notification "This number is not in the list of your contacts". Touch the Add »button located in its area. On the next screen, if necessary, adjust the username, and then confirm the addition of information about it to your messenger's address book and, at the same time, iPhone, tapping "Save" at the top of the screen on the right.
Method 3: IOS Contacts
By adding and deleting information about other participants in the Viber system on the iPhone, you probably noted that the address book in the messenger and "contacts" of iOS is the same list of records. Such a state of affairs makes it possible to solve the problem voiced in the title title, by recovering data by means of a mobile OS from EPL and a tools included in the ecosystem.
- Perform data recovery from the backup to ICloud or from the backup computer using the iTunes program. These operations are described in the following material on our website:
Read more: How to restore contacts on the iPhone
- Before starting Viber after data recovery, make sure that the permission to access the "Contacts" module of iOS is provided by the Messenger program, and activate it if it was withdrawn:
- Go to "Settings" iPhone, scroll the list of parameters and tap "Viber";
- The switch located on the right of the name "Contacts" must be in the "Enabled" position if this is not the case - activate the option.
- Run the Viber's program on iPhone. Now you can resume communication with previously accidentally or intentionally contact, its data due to the interaction of the Messenger with Ayos will be available in the address book.
Conclusion
The ability to restore remote contacts in viber though requires some preventive measures, but is available in most situations, regardless of the user preferred by the user.