My work phone is an iPhone 12 mini. In the last month or so I’ve been losing contacts. I have done all the updates and followed instructions on how to recover them to no avail. When I logged into the iCloud to recover my contacts it told me that I have nothing to recover from. Am I screwed or is there something I can do?
Also, you might want to try enabling iCloud-on-the-web and see what contacts you have: https://www.icloud.com/ (to enable, go to Settings->(your name)->iCloud->Access iCloud Data on the Web). If your contacts are still there, there’s some issue with iOS or your contacts program. If they’re gone, you’re probably screwed.
Try going into settings > contacts > accounts > click on your mail account > delete account > re-add the account and then make sure contacts are toggled on. Then give it a few minutes and see if they reappear.