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Thursday, June 4th, 2026 1:41 AM

all recent contacts missing after migrating to yahoo

Hello,

I migrated to yahoo mail and all was well.  I then had trouble sending text message from my iphone to my new email (I was using ...@comcast.net.  I read somwhere to delete the comcsat email account from my phone which I did..... I was then able to get my email messages.  However, since I did that, my contacts on my phone have been replaced with some old contact list.  I cannot find my most recent contacts anywhere... not in the icloud and can no longer just access my old email account on comcast (to try to download a csv file)... I tried doing it from yahoo and it is just this old list.... How can I recover my most recent contacts and get rid of this old list?  Thank you.

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XfinityAbby

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21 days ago

Hello @user_srnhr4 thank you for reaching out on our community forum. I know how important it is to have your contacts list. Did you lose the contacts in your phone or the contacts in your email? 

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Contacts on my phone. I did not have them backed up to iCloud. 

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XfinityRoberto

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Is your mobile service with us or another provider? The email migration to the Yahoo server should have not affected your mobile contacts. 

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Yes I am with xfinity .  It was fine until I deleted my email [Edited: "Personal Information"] comcast.net email on my phone. I have since added it back on phone but only see my old contacts. I think it synched with my Gmail contact list. I have tried everything to get my most recent contacts back to no avail. Thanks for any help.

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XfinityAirelle

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Hi there! Based on what you've described, it actually sounds like the contact issue may be related to how your contacts were being synced on the iPhone rather than the email migration itself.

 

A few questions that may help narrow this down:

  • Were your contacts originally being synced through your Comcast email account, iCloud, Yahoo, Google, or another account?
  • When you go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts, what accounts are currently listed there?
  • If you select your Yahoo account, is the Contacts toggle turned on?
  • When you open the Contacts app and tap Lists in the upper-left corner, do you see multiple contact lists available?

What may have happened is that when the Comcast account was removed from the iPhone, the contacts associated with that account were also removed from the device. If those contacts were stored on the Comcast account and not synced to iCloud, Yahoo, or another service, that would explain why you're now seeing an older contact list instead.

 

Let's start with the questions above and we'll see if we can determine where those contacts were being stored before they disappeared.

 

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Sorry, I thought I answered earlier, but my reply is not showing here.  I agree with what you think happened........
. I don't think my contacts were being synced prior to this --- I wasn't using ICloud, just gmail and comcast email
.Under contacts app I see Contact Accounts:
         Icloud, Gmail, Yahoo!, Comcast  -- but the Comcast account only shows 'Mail' (not contacts, calendars).
. The contacts toggle is on under Yahoo account
. under Lists I see All contacts 70, All Yahoo! 70, All Icloud 0
thank you...
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I use Outlook and have two emails in my Outlook app on PC. I self-migrated from Comcast (Xfinity) to Yahoo. My saved contacts in Outlook disappeared that were in my Comcast email address book. Also, the Outlook address book is now connected to my other email from my website. There is no option to move it to the Comcast email as it appears the PC does not recognize the Comcast email ID. Is there a way for a technician to assist with how to remedy this issue? The Yahoo switch appears to have a glitch. 

When I moved the Comcast mail on my iPhone to Yahoo, it transferred three separate address books that left me with names of very, very old contacts. 

A concern is that if I take the saved Contacts that are on my laptop and transfer them to Outlook on my PC, they will all migrate to the (incorrect) website email ID address versus the former Comcast email ID.

More so, in changing from Comcast (Xfinity) to Yahoo on my laptop, I experience exactly what happened on my PC: all contacts with disappear and the laptop will not recognize my Comcast email ID for the Contacts that will have to be reinstalled.

Please advise with either an Xfinity tech link or Yahoo tech link re: this migration glitch.

Thank you very much.

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Hi there, @user_mp6ki5. Your contacts, if they were saved natively on your Outlook app, should not have been affected by the transition. If you log in to the web based Yahoo mail with your comcast.net address, are you able to see your saved contacts? 

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No. The Contacts in Comcast were different from the Ones on Outlook. When the shift went from Comcast to Outlook, the ones in the Outlook address book disappeared. All that remains in the Yahoo Contacts are about 10 from that list that had more than 10.

The laptop Contacts are complete and I cannot do that migration until I know what happened for fear of those Contacts disappearing.

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@user_mp6ki5, got it. Thanks for confirming. Any contacts that are saved natively on your PC or another app, would not be saved server side in order to migrate automatically. My best suggestion would be to save your contacts directly into the Yahoo contacts manually, or you can use the export/import function in Outlook to do so with a file. Directions on that are located here : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/people/import-or-export-contacts-in-outlook-using-a-csv-file 

And then to import into Yahoo, directions are here : https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN28070.html

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Would you know why the Contacts in Outlook disappeared? I believe it should only have migrated Comcast addresses (which did not happen in their entirety), leaving alone all in Outlook.

Also, now my Outlook address book only identifies my website email ID and does not link whatsoever -- does not even identify it exists -- in what was Comcast, now Yahoo.

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@user_mp6ki5, I am not sure why the Outlook contacts would have disappeared. It would typically only be the case if you deleted that Outlook profile, are using a new one, or manually deleted the contacts. 

When you transitioned, did you remove JUST the comcast settings and then add the Yahoo settings in Outlook, or create a new profile?

Also, here is the FAQ on the transition as well in case you did not see it : https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview

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