Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android

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Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android
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It is always a hot topic about transferring
contacts from iPhone to Android, another iPhone,
Blackberry phone, etc. iPhone users are able to
sync contacts with iTunes, Gmail and so on, and
these methods can be helpful when users are going
to transfer iPhone contacts to another device.
This post will introduce multiple ways for people
to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android
phone, and of course, other devices.
Part 1. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
Android Part 2. Transfer Contacts to New
iPhone Part 3. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
Computer Part 4. Transfer Contacts from iPhone
to BlackBerry
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Part 1. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
Android People are able to transfer contacts
from iPhone to Android phone with multiple
methods today. Switching to a new smartphone,
iPhone or Android phone, is more and more
frequent among people, so moving contacts is
becoming more and more important for these users.
The following post will introduce several methods
for you to transfer contacts from iPhone to
Android phone.
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Solution 1. Export Contacts from iPhone with
iTunes iPhone users are able to take advantage
of iTunes to sync contacts to computer, and
iPhone users are able to export the contacts to
vCards and import the contacts to Android phone.
The following guidance will show you how to
transfer iPhone contacts with iTunes 1. Click
the iPhone icon at the upper left corner. 2.
Click Info in the Summary panel. 3. Check Sync
Contacts. 4. Choose Windows Contacts in the
drop-down menu. 5. Choose All Contacts or
selected groups. 6. Click Sync at the right
bottom. 7. Click the Start button after
exporting contacts. 8. Choose your username, and
open Contacts folder. 9. Click Export at the
upper right corner. 10. Choose VCF as
output. 11. Click Export at the right
bottom. 12. Choose a folder to save the
contacts, and click OK.
When you get the contacts in target, you can
connect your Android phone to computer with the
USB cable, and launch your Contacts app, then tap
Import Contacts to transfer contacts from
computer to your Android phone.
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Solution 2. Using iPhone Transfer
Software iPhone users can transfer contacts from
iPhone to Android phone with third-party iPhone
transfer software, Leawo iTransfer. The following
guidance will show you how to do it. 1. Launch
Leawo iTransfer and connect iPhone to computer
with USB cable. 2. Choose Contacts category and
select contacts. 3. Click the Export button and
choose VCF as output.
After that, you can repeat the steps in solution
1.
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Solution 3.Using iCloud to Transfer iPhone
Contacts iPhone users can upload their iPhone
contacts to iCloud, and export contacts as
vCards, then import the contacts to Android
phone. The following guidance will show you how
to do that.
1. Tap Settings gt iCloud, and turn Contacts to
ON. 2. Enter your Apple ID in iCloud.com on your
computer. 3. Select the contacts you need and
click the Settings icon at the left bottom, then
choose Export vCard. 4. The contacts will be
exported as a VCF file on your computer. Connect
Android phone to computer with the USB cable, and
launch Contacts app, then choose Import
Contacts.
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Solution 4. Using Gmail to Sync Contacts iPhone
users are able to sync contacts from iPhone to
Android phone. You only need to tap Settings gt
Mails, Contacts, Calendars gt Add Account, and add
Gmail into your iPhone. Then tap Contacts to ON.
Go back to Home screen, and launch Contacts App,
then the contacts will be synced to Gmail. You
can sync Gmail contacts to your Android phone, or
export the contacts to computer and then import
them to your Android phone.
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Solution 5. Manually Transferring Contacts from
iPhone to Android You may want to use your Mail
or Message app to share few contacts from iPhone
to Android. This method is easy. You only need to
launch your Contacts app and select the contact
you want to export, then tap Share Contact at
the bottom of the screen. Choose the app you want
to use and you will find the contact is attached
in the message or email. If youre using an
Android phone and havent inserted the SIM card,
you should choose Mail app to send the contact.
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Part 2. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
Computer People will want to transfer contacts
from iPhone to computer for a backup. When iPhone
users want to transfer iPhone contacts to
computer, they have multiple choices. The
following post will show you how to accomplish
the iPhone contact transfer. Solution 1. Export
iPhone Contacts Manually For manually
transferring iPhone contacts, it actually means
transferring contacts with email. As iPhone users
can only add one contact at one time, so this
method is helpful when you only have few contacts
to transfer. You only need to get to the contact
you want to transfer, and tap Share Contact. Then
choose Mail and send the contact to yourself.
When you decrypt the attachment on your computer,
you will get the contact as a vCard on your
computer.
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Solution 2. Sync Contacts with iTunes Using
iTunes to sync iPhone contacts with the Address
Book on computer is also a commonly used method
among iPhone users. The following guidance will
show you how to do that 1. Connect iPhone to
computer with USB cable. Click iPhone when iTunes
recognizes it. 2. Choose Info in Summary panel.
Then Check Sync Contacts in right part. 3.
Choose the app you want to sync contacts in the
drop-down menu. 4. Select All Contacts or
selected group in the checkbox below. 5. Click
Sync at the right bottom to start syncing
contacts. After that, you will get the contacts
in your computer (Windows Contacts in my case).
If you also have synced contacts to your
computer, you will get the contacts by clicking
Start Menu gt (Your Username) gt Contacts.
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Solution 3. Export Contacts with iPhone Transfer
Software People are able to transfer contacts
from iPhone to computer with third-party iPhone
transfer software. Leawo iTransfer allows users
to export contacts with simple steps. The
following guidance will show you how to do
it 1. Connect iPhone to computer with USB
cable, and choose Contacts. 2. Click the Export
button at the top, and choose vCard as
output. 3. Choose a folder to save the contacts
and start to transfer contacts.
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Solution 4. Backup iPhone Contacts with iTunes
iCloud Backing up contacts with iTunes and
iCloud also help users to transfer contacts from
iPhone to computer. The contacts in iPhone backup
arent viewable on computer. The contacts in
iCloud can be viewed when you log in iCloud.com
on your computer. To backup iPhone with iTunes,
users need to connect iPhone with USB cable and
click File gt Device gt Back Up at the upper left
corner. To backup iPhone with iCloud, users need
to tap Settings gt iCloud gt Back Up Now on their
iPhone.
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Part 3. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
iPhone/iPad When iPhone users want to switch to
new iPhone, they will definitely want to transfer
contacts to new iPhone, or transfer contacts from
iPhone to iPad for a backup. As a matter of fact,
people can accomplish the iPhone contact transfer
with several ways. The following post will
introduce the methods which you can take
advantage of to transfer contacts from iPhone to
iPhone or iPad. Method 1. Restoring Old iPhone
Backup Before switching to a new iPhone, you can
backup iPhone in iTunes, and restore new iPhone
with the old backup. Check the following guidance
if you arent sure about the backup and restoring
process.
After backup iPhone with iTunes, you can restore
iPhone with the backup (which are also marked in
Option I and Option II). When you finish
restoring new iPhone with the old backup, you
will get the contacts in your new iPhone.
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Method 2. Using iPhone Transfer Software Whether
you want to transfer contacts to new iPhone, or
transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad, you can
take advantage of the third-party iPhone transfer
software Leawo iTransfer. The following
guidance will show you how to do that.
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Method 3. Syncing Contacts with iCloud If you
have your iPhone and new iPhone with the same
Apple ID, you can take advantage of iCloud to
transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone. Of
course, transferring contacts from iPhone to iPad
is also easy to be done with iCloud. The
following guidance will show you how to do
that 1. Tap Settings gt iCloud, and turn
contacts to ON by swiping from left to right. 2.
Tap Backup Now. iCloud will upload contacts to
the cloud automatically. 3. Tap Settings gt
iCloud on your new iPhone, and tap Restore from
Backup.
Method 4. Transferring iPhone Contacts with
Message/Mail If you only few contacts to sync
from iPhone to iPad or another iOS device, you
can use your Message or Mail app on your iPhone.
You can message a contact to the iPhone or iPad
with Message app, just like transferring contacts
from iPhone to Android phone. When you want to
save the attached contacts to iPhone or iPad, you
can tap the Attachment icon (paperclip) and
choose the contact you need, then click Add to
Contacts.
Method 5. Syncing Contacts with Gmail This
method has been mentioned in Part 1. When iPhone
users want to get the contacts on their new
iPhone, they can just add the same Gmail account
on the new iPhone, and they will get the Gmail
contacts in their iPhone Contact app.
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Part 4. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to
BlackBerry A lot of people are still using
BlackBerry smartphone. So when iPhone users want
to share contacts with a BlackBerry phone, they
will need to figure out a way. In fact, people
have several choices when they want to transfer
contacts from iPhone to BlackBerry. The following
post will introduce the methods to you. Method
1. Using iTunes to Transfer Contacts iPhone
users should export the contacts from their
iPhone at first, and then they can import the
contacts to BlackBerry phone with BlackBerry
Desktop Software. The following guidance will
show you how to do that 1. Export Contacts from
iPhone to Computer. 2. Launch BlackBerry Desktop
software and click Organizer in the left
sidebar. 3. Click Configure Settings, and click
Address Book in the right part. 4. Choose the
Application you want to use and click Next. 5.
Choose the direction you want to transfer
contacts, and click Next. 6. Choose the
application you have chosen, and click Next. 7.
Click Finish, then OK. 8. You will jump to the
main interface again. Click Sync at the right
bottom.
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Method 2. Using Email to Send Contacts You can
transfer contacts from iPhone to BlackBerry with
your iPhone Mail app when you only have few
contacts to transfer. You can launch your Contact
app and select the contact you need, then click
Share Contact at the bottom and choose email.
Then you can send yourself an email and download
the attached contact on your BlackBerry phone. If
you have a lot of contacts to transfer, you can
export them to computer with iTunes at first, and
email the contacts to yourself, then download the
contacts to your BlackBerry phone. Method 3.
Import Contacts from Computer to
Blackberry iPhone users can transfer contacts
from iPhone to computer at first, and then import
contacts from computer to BlackBerry. Leawo
iTransfer can help users to transfer contacts
from iPhone to computer without iTunes, and save
them as vCards on your computer so that you can
import them to BlackBerry phone easily. Using
this iPhone transfer software to copy contacts
from iPhone to computer has been mentioned in
Part 1. iPhone users dont have to worry about
transferring contacts from iPhone to other
devices now, because the common methods have all
been mentioned in the post above. If you have
decided to switch to a new smartphone,
transferring contacts from iPhone will be as easy
as falling off a log.
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