What should I do for contacts when I need iPhone 4 to iOS 5

"My iPhone currently runs iOS 4.3. I am thinking about upgrading the iOS to 5.0 from iOS 4.3. However, I heard some of my friends said that when update to iOS 5. The new version iOS will wipe all the contacts on iPhone 4. Or part of the contacts will disappear and they can't find them out. I don't want my contacts been wiped during the upgrade. So, I just want to know what should I do for contacts when I need update iPhone 4 to iOS 5?"

The solution

Yes, in deed, some iPhone user find that during the process of update iPhone 4 to iOS 5, their contacts would be cleared. To avoid the contacts been wiped. The safest way is that you have a copy of the contacts from iPhone 4 onto computer. We recommend you 4Media iPhone contacts backup application, Which is a fully solution to export contacts from iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S to computer. You are able to restore the contacts to iPhone easily on computer after you have updated to the iOS 5. So, no contacts information will be lost.

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