How To Transfer Photos And Contacts From Iphone

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When you get a new iPhone, it's important to make sure the data from your old iPhone transfers properly. Even if you're looking to start fresh with an entirely new account, there are likely a few contacts you'd like to port over. Friends, family, and other close acquaintances should be at the top of your list.

For those booting a new phone from an iCloud backup, contacts should migrate without a problem. That said, there are times even that fails to migrate all of your contacts, so you should know how to do it yourself.

We'll show you how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone, export contacts from iPhone and transfer contacts to new iPhone, and the apps that can help you tidy up your digital life with ease.

Transfer contacts to new iPhone without iCloud

The best Mac app to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone is AnyTrans.

AnyTrans allows you complete customization and control of iPhone backups, including which data to backup. It's also perfect for data migration between iPhones, or to a Mac. You can send images, contacts, messages, notes, calendar appointments and more.

First, you need to turn off iCloud contacts on your iPhone. Here's how:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Tap your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
3. Select 'iCloud'
4. Toggle 'Contacts' off

Now that you've disabled iCloud Contacts, here's how to transfer contacts from one iPhone to another using AnyTrans:

1. Open AnyTrans on your Mac
2. Plug in the iPhone you want to transfer contacts from
3. Select the 'More' icon at the right of the window
4. Select 'Contacts' on the left side of the window
5. Select all the contacts you'd like to transfer
6. Plug in your second iPhone
7. Select 'To Device' from the top of the AnyTrans app window
8. Follow the on-screen prompts to transfer your contacts

That's how to transfer contacts between iPhones using AnyTrans. Simple!

Transfer contacts to a new iPhone using iCloud sync

Before we told you how to get contacts from iPhone to iPhone with AnyTrans, we suggested turning iCloud Contacts off. But what is iCloud Contacts, anyway?

iCloud is Apple's cloud platform for syncing data between devices, including contacts. It's why Notes you keep on Mac show up on your iPad or iPhone, and how the Photos app syncs between all of your devices. Alongside Apple services, many iOS and macOS apps choose to use iCloud to sync their various apps to all platforms in Apple's ecosystem as well.

Transferring contacts to a new iPhone is as simple as backing your existing iPhone up and turning your new one on. Here's how to back your iPhone up:

1. Open the Settings app
2. Select your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
3. Select 'iCloud'
4. Choose 'iCloud Backup'
5. Select 'Back Up Now'

Once your phone is backed up, give it a few minutes to completely sync to iCloud. Then, turn on your new iPhone and set it next to your old iPhone to allow Apple's Quick Start protocol to begin syncing. The process of syncing your two devices happens automatically, and Apple uses your most recent backup to sync all of your data, including contacts.

Transfer iPhone contacts using an iCloud backup

Keeping current backups of your iPhone is important, especially so you don't lose track of contacts. As you text, call, email, and message people, they will be saved to your contacts list.

If you have an iCloud backup of your iPhone, booting to a new device from that backup is easy. Here's how to transfer contacts from iPhone backups to a new iPhone using iCloud:

1. Turn on your new iPhoneFollow the on-screen prompts until you reach a screen asking you to choose a WiFi network
2. Select a WiFi network to join (preferably your home WiFi network)
3. Choose 'Restore from iCloud Backup'
4. Sign into iCloud using your Apple ID
5. Choose the most recent backup of your old iPhone

That's all you need to do. Your iPhone will boot from the backup you chose.

Before you backup an iPhone, it's wise to get rid of content you no longer need. We won't advise that you poke through your contacts list to decipher who to cull – but you should use Gemini for iPhone to eliminate unwanted photos from your device.

Gemini pokes through your iPhone's Photos app to find duplicates, blurry images, and other photos you may want to get rid of. Chances are you don't really need all of those screenshots!

Here's how to use Gemini for iOS to thin out how many photos are on your phone, and taking up iCloud space:

1. Open Gemini on your iPhone
2. Select the category you want to delete photos from
3. Swipe up to save photos, or down to delete them

It's that simple! You can also download Gemini for Mac and discover duplicate files, folders, photos, and other items that are occupying valuable storage space on your Mac.

AirDrop contacts one by one

If your contacts didn't transfer via iCloud, or you forgot to include a few in your AnyTrans contacts transfer, it's not a problem! You can still use AirDrop to transfer contracts between iPhones.

A word of caution before we tell you how to transfer contacts using AirDrop: it's tedious, and you have to go one by one through your contacts list. It's a great solution for transferring a few contacts, but we wouldn't suggest it as the method to transfer all of the contacts in your list.

Here's how it's done:

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone
2. Select the contact you'd like to transfer to a new iPhone
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the contact and select 'Share Contact'
4. In the share sheet that pops up, choose the AirDrop transfer icon for the device you want to share to

If you don't see the new iPhone available on the top row, select the AirDrop icon and choose it from the list of available apps. Should you not see it in the list of available AirDrop devices, you may have to enable AirDrop on your new iPhone. Here's how:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Select 'General'
3. Choose 'AirDrop'
4. Select 'Everyone'
5. Try to send the contact from your old iPhone via AirDrop again

Enabling AirDrop on your new phone should make it discoverable on your old iPhone.

Using SIM-Card

Apple is increasingly moving iPhones toward a SIM-free world with its new eSIM capabilities in newer iPhones, but you can still use a SIM to transfer contacts between iPhones. In fact, some services will only save contacts to a SIM card, so it's possible some of your oldest contacts are actually stuck on your SIM card!

A word of caution before proceeding: make sure your new iPhone can accept the SIM card from your older iPhone. Newer iOS devices use a nano-SIM card. If your iPhone is quite old, it's possible you have a SIM card that won't fit a new iPhone. You can visit a carrier store to receive a new SIM card, or have them trim your old one to fit your new device.

Here's how to transfer contacts from a SIM card to your iPhone:

1. Remove the SIM card from your old iPhone
2. Open the SIM card tray on your new iPhone
3. Place the SIM card in the tray of your new iPhone
4. Open the Settings app on your new iPhone
5. Select 'Contacts'
6. Choose 'Import SIM contacts'
7. Select an account to import your SIM contacts to

Conclusion

You really don't want to lose contacts, especially those that are syncing to your iPhone in the background. As information changes, it may reflect in your contacts list without you knowing. If you have an older email or phone number for someone buried in a note somewhere, it may not work. It's always smarter to keep your contacts list up to date, and backed up.

First, you need to turn off iCloud contacts on your iPhone. Here's how:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Tap your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
3. Select 'iCloud'
4. Toggle 'Contacts' off

Now that you've disabled iCloud Contacts, here's how to transfer contacts from one iPhone to another using AnyTrans:

1. Open AnyTrans on your Mac
2. Plug in the iPhone you want to transfer contacts from
3. Select the 'More' icon at the right of the window
4. Select 'Contacts' on the left side of the window
5. Select all the contacts you'd like to transfer
6. Plug in your second iPhone
7. Select 'To Device' from the top of the AnyTrans app window
8. Follow the on-screen prompts to transfer your contacts

That's how to transfer contacts between iPhones using AnyTrans. Simple!

Transfer contacts to a new iPhone using iCloud sync

Before we told you how to get contacts from iPhone to iPhone with AnyTrans, we suggested turning iCloud Contacts off. But what is iCloud Contacts, anyway?

iCloud is Apple's cloud platform for syncing data between devices, including contacts. It's why Notes you keep on Mac show up on your iPad or iPhone, and how the Photos app syncs between all of your devices. Alongside Apple services, many iOS and macOS apps choose to use iCloud to sync their various apps to all platforms in Apple's ecosystem as well.

Transferring contacts to a new iPhone is as simple as backing your existing iPhone up and turning your new one on. Here's how to back your iPhone up:

1. Open the Settings app
2. Select your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
3. Select 'iCloud'
4. Choose 'iCloud Backup'
5. Select 'Back Up Now'

Once your phone is backed up, give it a few minutes to completely sync to iCloud. Then, turn on your new iPhone and set it next to your old iPhone to allow Apple's Quick Start protocol to begin syncing. The process of syncing your two devices happens automatically, and Apple uses your most recent backup to sync all of your data, including contacts.

Transfer iPhone contacts using an iCloud backup

Keeping current backups of your iPhone is important, especially so you don't lose track of contacts. As you text, call, email, and message people, they will be saved to your contacts list.

If you have an iCloud backup of your iPhone, booting to a new device from that backup is easy. Here's how to transfer contacts from iPhone backups to a new iPhone using iCloud:

1. Turn on your new iPhoneFollow the on-screen prompts until you reach a screen asking you to choose a WiFi network
2. Select a WiFi network to join (preferably your home WiFi network)
3. Choose 'Restore from iCloud Backup'
4. Sign into iCloud using your Apple ID
5. Choose the most recent backup of your old iPhone

That's all you need to do. Your iPhone will boot from the backup you chose.

Before you backup an iPhone, it's wise to get rid of content you no longer need. We won't advise that you poke through your contacts list to decipher who to cull – but you should use Gemini for iPhone to eliminate unwanted photos from your device.

Gemini pokes through your iPhone's Photos app to find duplicates, blurry images, and other photos you may want to get rid of. Chances are you don't really need all of those screenshots!

Here's how to use Gemini for iOS to thin out how many photos are on your phone, and taking up iCloud space:

1. Open Gemini on your iPhone
2. Select the category you want to delete photos from
3. Swipe up to save photos, or down to delete them

It's that simple! You can also download Gemini for Mac and discover duplicate files, folders, photos, and other items that are occupying valuable storage space on your Mac.

AirDrop contacts one by one

If your contacts didn't transfer via iCloud, or you forgot to include a few in your AnyTrans contacts transfer, it's not a problem! You can still use AirDrop to transfer contracts between iPhones.

A word of caution before we tell you how to transfer contacts using AirDrop: it's tedious, and you have to go one by one through your contacts list. It's a great solution for transferring a few contacts, but we wouldn't suggest it as the method to transfer all of the contacts in your list.

Here's how it's done:

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone
2. Select the contact you'd like to transfer to a new iPhone
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the contact and select 'Share Contact'
4. In the share sheet that pops up, choose the AirDrop transfer icon for the device you want to share to

If you don't see the new iPhone available on the top row, select the AirDrop icon and choose it from the list of available apps. Should you not see it in the list of available AirDrop devices, you may have to enable AirDrop on your new iPhone. Here's how:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Select 'General'
3. Choose 'AirDrop'
4. Select 'Everyone'
5. Try to send the contact from your old iPhone via AirDrop again

Enabling AirDrop on your new phone should make it discoverable on your old iPhone.

Using SIM-Card

Apple is increasingly moving iPhones toward a SIM-free world with its new eSIM capabilities in newer iPhones, but you can still use a SIM to transfer contacts between iPhones. In fact, some services will only save contacts to a SIM card, so it's possible some of your oldest contacts are actually stuck on your SIM card!

A word of caution before proceeding: make sure your new iPhone can accept the SIM card from your older iPhone. Newer iOS devices use a nano-SIM card. If your iPhone is quite old, it's possible you have a SIM card that won't fit a new iPhone. You can visit a carrier store to receive a new SIM card, or have them trim your old one to fit your new device.

Here's how to transfer contacts from a SIM card to your iPhone:

1. Remove the SIM card from your old iPhone
2. Open the SIM card tray on your new iPhone
3. Place the SIM card in the tray of your new iPhone
4. Open the Settings app on your new iPhone
5. Select 'Contacts'
6. Choose 'Import SIM contacts'
7. Select an account to import your SIM contacts to

Conclusion

You really don't want to lose contacts, especially those that are syncing to your iPhone in the background. As information changes, it may reflect in your contacts list without you knowing. If you have an older email or phone number for someone buried in a note somewhere, it may not work. It's always smarter to keep your contacts list up to date, and backed up.

Apps like AnyTrans make backups and information transfer between iPhones a snap. It allows you full control of your backups and transfers, and is a great idea for trimming contacts from your list that you know you'll never need again.

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There was once a time when transferring contacts from one mobile platform to another meant manually typing in an endless amount of names, phone numbers and other information. Thankfully, nowadays smartphones can do most of the work for us. And, for the most part, it can be accomplished in a very small amount of time.

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What is the best way to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android? Today we'll walk you through all of the easiest methods, so you can get started and enjoy your Android device in no time.

Method #1 – Transfer contacts from iPhone to Android with your Google account

First and foremost, to use your Android phone you'll need a Google account. If you have yet to set one up, head to Google's homepage and select the 'create account' option. You can also do this directly from your smartphone, but the desktop experience is much better.

Once you've created your Google account, pick up your iPhone and navigate to the 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' section of your Settings menu. This is where you'll enter in your Google account. Press the 'Add Account' button, select the Gmail option, and enter in your login information.

Your iPhone will then ask which parts of your Google account you'd like to sync. Make sure the Contacts option is selected; then your iPhone and Android devices will start syncing contacts with one another. This is the part where you'll need to be patient. If you have a lot of contacts, it could take awhile. Just make sure to keep an internet connection active while your contacts are syncing.

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It should be noted that your iPhone won't tell you when your contacts are done syncing. To check on their progress, navigate to the Google Contacts website from your desktop, sign in with your Google account, and check up on the list of contacts from there.

Once your contacts are done syncing, log in to your Android device with your Google account information, and you should be all set!

Method #2 – Transfer with iCloud

If you have iCloud enabled on your iPhone, this method to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android should take no time at all.

On your iPhone, go to Settings, choose 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars', then choose 'Accounts' where you should see 'iCloud' listed. Choose this option, then turn on the toggle for 'Contacts'. Your iPhone will prompt you to 'Merge' your device's contacts with iCloud.

Once this process is done, navigate to icloud.com on your computer's web browser, log in with your Apple ID, then select 'Contacts'. Click on the gear icon in the lower-left corner, then press 'Select All'. After that, click the wheel again and choose 'Export vCard'.

Navigate to gmail.com, click on the 'Mail' button, then select 'Contacts'. Click the 'More' tab, select 'Import', select 'Choose File', then select your saved vCard file. When it gets done importing, Gmail will display the number of contacts that have been imported. At this point you may have some duplicate contacts, and getting rid of these is easy. Simply press the 'Find & Merge Duplicates' button under the 'More' tab.

Method #3 – Transfer each contact with email or text

There's also a third method to transfer contacts from your iPhone to your new Android phone. However, this should be used only if you have a few contacts on your iPhone, or if you just want to transfer a limited number of them to your new Android device. Just open your contacts section in your iPhone, and then select the contact you want to transfer from iPhone to Android. Finally, swipe down to transfer that contact, either with an email or via text. That's all there is to it. Again, only use this method if you don't have hundreds of contacts you need to transfer from your iPhone to your new Android phone.

Honestly, you could also use a third party app, but we feel like its better to just go one of the three listed routes as they are less complicated, and utilize accounts you already had for your iPhone or will need for your new Android devices. There are likely a few more ways to transfer contacts from iPhones to Android devices as well, but the methods listed above are by far the easiest. Do you have any other methods? Be sure to let us know in the comments below!