Contacts User Guide

You can import contacts from other computers or apps as files in a variety of file types—for example, vCard (with the extension .vcf), archive (.abbu), LDAP Data Interchange Format (.ldif), or a tab-delimited or comma-separated value (.csv) text file.

Dec 11, 2020 iCloud: On both phones, go to Settings Your name iCloud. Slide Contacts to On position. If opted, merge contacts to avoid losing any. Backup: On old phone, turn on iCloud Backup. Choose Back Up Now. On new phone, go to Apps & Data Restore from iCloud Backup. ITunes: Connect old phone to computer/iTunes. Go to Backups This Computer. Toggle Contacts back on. Now, all of your contacts are stored in iCloud. Once more, toggle Contacts off. Tap Delete from My iPhone. Now go back to your Accounts. You can select Gmail, Yahoo, or whatever other mail provider you have an account for. Toggle off Contacts within each account and select Delete from My iPhone. Jan 14, 2018 Transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone without iCloud. After you click the Sync button, all contacts will be removed from the new device and they will be replaced with the new contacts. If you want to merge your contacts we recommend you to use this method. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to iPhone Using an App.

Aug 08, 2020 Part 1. IPhone Contacts and iCloud Part 2. Backup Contacts to iCloud Account Part 3. Some Tips of Backuping Contacts to iCloud Part 4. Quickly Backup Contacts Using Fonedog Toolkit. IPhone Contacts and iCloud. The iPhone is an amazing smartphone and millions of users can't help but agree that it will likely continue in its popularity. Feb 24, 2021 Then, AnyTrans can help you sync Google Contacts with iCloud in an easy way. AnyTrans is an awarded iOS content manager, and when it comes to managing iCloud content, it can help you access and manage the photos, notes, contacts, etc.

Note: When you import contact cards, Contacts indicates when it finds duplicates, so you can review them. See Resolve duplicates while importing contacts.

Import contacts from a vCard file (.vcf)

1. Do one of the following on your Mac:

   • Double-click the vCard file—for example, in an email or on the desktop.

   • Drag the vCard file to the Contacts icon in the Dock, or to the list of contacts in the Contacts window.

   • In Contacts, choose File > Import, then select the vCard file.

2. Click Add in the message that appears.

Import contacts from an archive file (.abbu)

Important: Importing an archive file replaces your current contact information.

1. In the Contacts app on your Mac, choose File > Import.

2. Select the archive file, then click Open.

Import contacts from other file types

Note: Before you import a tab-delimited or CSV file, use a text editor (such as TextEdit) to confirm the file is formatted correctly:

• Remove any line breaks within a contact’s information.

• Make sure all addresses have the same number of fields. Add empty fields as needed.

• Make sure fields are separated by a tab (in a tab-delimited file) or a comma (in a CSV file), instead of another character. Don’t include spaces before or after the tabs or commas.

1. In the Contacts app on your Mac, choose File > Import, select the file, change the encoding if necessary, then click Open.

2. If you’re importing a text file, review the field labels.

   • If the first card contains headers, make sure the headers are correctly labeled or marked “Do not import.” Any changes you make to this card are made to all cards in the file. To not import the headers card, select “Ignore first card.”

   • To change a label, click the arrows next to the label and choose a new label. If you don’t want to import a field, choose “Do not import.”

When you import contacts from an Exchange account, information that isn’t supported is added to the Note field. Custom fields aren’t imported.

When you sign in with the same Apple ID on each of your devices and turn on Contacts in iCloud preferences or settings, your contacts are available on all your devices, and changes you make to contacts on one device appear on the others.

By Vernon Roderick, Last updated: August 8, 2020

How to Backup Contacts to iCloud? Here are some solutions.

'I have been using my iPhone for quite some time now and as many of you have likely experienced, my contact list has ballooned into an obscene number. I am just getting anxiety from thinking or imagining a morning where I wake up and they are gone for some reason or another.

I'm not exactly a careless person but even I've known myself to delete a text message or something instead of replying and that could happen to my contacts and I just can't let that happen. I need to back these up and I know that the iCloud is the perfect program to help me with my concern, I'm already breathing a little easier thanks to the idea that there is something to help me, however, I just realized I zero knowledge on how to backup contacts to iCloud.

Any tips or guides would be super awesome. Thank you, thank you!'

Part 1. iPhone Contacts and iCloud

The iPhone is an amazing smartphone and millions of users can't help but agree that it will likely continue in its popularity. While our abilities with a smartphone continue to amaze us, we are able to surf, install apps, handle work and emails, watch videos and so much more. These are still amazing things and let's face it, life-changing abilities, we can still focus on the horizon and expect more improvements to come.

As we await those inevitable developments, we continue to enjoy our phones as the groundbreaking technology that we have ready in our pockets and since they are still mobile phones at heart, our contact list is what continues to empower our phones ability to stay in touch.

Now, much like the user stated above, it could be a little unnerving to assume the worst and the ideal process might be to prepare for it instead. After all, an iPhone without any contacts is less likely to be useful than one that has all your contacts ready to be used whenever you need to.

Our attention is now focused on the ability to backup our contact list and as most users of an iPhone, our immediate go-to solution is iCloud. For those of you who are not quite familiar with what iCloud is, iCloud is a program that can help backup quite a bit of data for iPhone users or account holders on a virtual cloud or storage space on the internet. Sometimes we sync all contacts to icloud.

All you need is an active account and a reliable wifi or data plan and you shouldn't have any problems with getting or using an iCloud account.

Part 2. Backup Contacts to iCloud Account

Now, assuming you aren't that familiar with the program, don't worry it isn't going to require you to reprogram your iPhone and we can simply teach you how to use it with a few simple steps. All you need to do is follow these easy steps and you should easily backup your contacts to your iCloud account:

Step 1: Login to your iCloud account using your iPhone, please make sure to input the proper username and password. Assuming you do not have an iCloud account, don't worry you can easily create one before logging in. Simply follow the creation instructions to proceed.

Step 2: Go to the settings of your phone, find the iCloud option and scroll through it.

Step 3: You will likely notice that there is a 'Contacts' option listed, simply toggle it off and on in order to proceed. Please make sure to leave it switched on and you are done.

Backup Contacts to iCloud

That was a fairly simple process that most people can easily follow. Please note that iCloud will automatically update the backup files every day at a certain time within the day but the iPhone unit with the iCloud account must be plugged to a power source and have wifi available otherwise it will only update when both those criteria have been met.

This makes sure that your contacts and other details are up-to-date and you won't have any issues should you need to restore using iCloud as your restoration point.

On the other hand, some people have mentioned that they don't have all their contacts as of yet and needed to do some extra steps, please keep reading if you really want to make sure that all contacts are on your iCloud account.

Step 1: Check on iCloud.com if all your contacts are there, simply go to the site and log in, find the contacts and search for a contact or two to make sure it is all there. Assuming you could not find it please proceed to the next few steps.

Step 2: Check the contacts on your iPhone and see on the upper right, there is a 'Groups' category, please choose that. You will see that there are a few groups listed here and if your categories are listed as 'All on my iPhone' simply uncheck it and search for the missing names that you did in step 1. If the names did not appear, it is likely that the contacts did not sync properly onto iCloud.

Step 3: To alleviate that problem, go to the settings of your phone and go to 'Mail, Contacts, Calendar' on your phone and find the make your default account to the iCloud, simply toggle it on when you see it.

Step 4: Export all your contacts, this may require you to use a third party program or app and there are quite a few that might be best, we leave it up to you to choose which one you prefer.

Step 5: After exporting using a third party app or program, you will now import that file to your iCloud.

Step 6: There will be a merge option to combine your existing contacts on iCloud and the imported information that you did in step 4 and 5, this will help you remove any duplicates and avoid the messy need to clean up the backed up contact list.

Part 3. Some Tips of Backuping Contacts to iCloud

Syncing Icloud Contacts With Google

Admittedly, the latter steps might be a little difficult for some users and let's face it, it isn't exactly 100% foolproof. Well, if you need to have all your contacts, this is something that you cannot help but avoid doing to make sure that you did not miss out on any information or contacts that may not have been saved.

To add to that rather challenging step, some users have a difficult time backing up due to the limitation in storage space of the iCloud. The free version limits your data to 5 GB which is quite big but with pictures, videos, apps and so much more, that can get full rather quickly.

Icloud

You can, however, buy more storage space on iCloud for a monthly fee which some people prefer to avoid altogether. Additionally, some people still cannot find full comfort in trusting their information to a cloud server, especially since it was hacked into a few years back.

Please note that Apple has since then, improved on security and beefed up on antihacking programs or such but that had taken a rather strong toll on the trust levels of iCloud. Finally, there are of course users who prefer to keep sensitive and important information within their own reach, perhaps within their laptop or computer, it just makes them feel more secure or safer knowing that it is with them instead of on the internet.

And sometimes you may meet some peoblems, such as why are all my contacts not showing up in icloud or contacts not syncing to iCloud.

Whatever the reason might be for you not to prefer using iCloud, don't worry, there are still other options there to back up your contacts. You can backup iPhone contacts without icloud.

Among the many options, one that we can wholeheartedly recommend is the Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore for your iPhone.

Part 4. Quickly Backup Contacts Using Fonedog Toolkit

The Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore is a program that does exactly as the name implies, it helps you backup your information and can be used to restore it should the need ever arise. From the very beginning, as you back up, you can view the entries one by one and screen if all the contacts made it into the Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore as you instructed, you can even remove those that you do not want to backup should you have any reason to not want them on your phone.

The storage space of Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore is only limited by the memory space of your computer or laptop, so as long as you have more than 5GB free, you should be well over what iCloud is offering you and there is no monthly storage fee that comes with anything above 5GB which should entice more people to try Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore.

Finally, as mentioned, Fonedog IOS Data Backup and Restore will save the information to your computer or laptop and you will have full control. In fact, you are even able to save the contacts or other details in a folder of your choosing with a password attached to it in order to access the said folder, which doubles the security that you are expecting from having the data in your computer or laptop.

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