Why are all of my contacts gone from Galaxy 7?

[Android Central Question]

All of my contacts have mysteriously disappeared from my phone.

 

[ajb1965]

Hello and welcome to Android Central! Did you log out of your Google account on the phone by chance? If you store your contacts in an external source like a Google or Microsoft account, logging out of that account will remove the contacts from your phone.

 

[11B1P]

have you tried turning your phone off and back on?