How to copy contacts from android to iphone. What is required for this

23.06.2019 Safety

In the CIS, Android and iOS phones are very popular, but many do not know how to combine these two systems, in particular, how to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone. This and similar problems are also relevant due to the fact that some are moving from one system to another.

Accordingly, users want to transfer their files and contacts to a new phone. Therefore, it would be useful to sort out several ways in order to transfer contacts from Android to iOS.

With a memory card

To transfer contacts from Android to iPhone using a memory card, you need to do the following:

Pick up smartphone, open the Contacts menu.
Call the contextual list of commands in the "Contacts" menu. This is usually done by long pressing on a contact or simply on the workspace.
Select "Export Contacts" from the context menu. The view of this command in the context menu is shown in Figure 1.a.

Clue: Depending on the version Android this item can also be called simply "Export". If this item is not there, then your device has a standard program for viewing contacts. It is better to download some newer so-called dialer program, for example, RocketDial Dialer & Contacts or 2GIS Dialer.

Various options will be available here in order to select the location of the contacts file. So you can transfer them to a SIM card, store them in internal memory, place them on a removable drive or via USB. The corresponding window is shown in Figure No. 1.b. It is most convenient to insert a regular memory card and select it. At least the posts on the forums in which people write about transferring contacts to the iPhone eloquently testify to this. In any case, after the contacts are placed on the selected media, a corresponding message will be displayed, the appearance of which can be seen in Figure 2. On it, a red line shows the path where you can then find the file with contacts.

Now the user has a file with contacts, the extension of which is .VCF. Now you should remove the memory card from the smartphone. The problem is that it will not work to insert it into the iPhone, because not a single product from the "apple company" has a corresponding slot. Therefore, you will need to additionally use a computer into which you can first insert this same card, and then transfer the .VCF file using Bluetooth or USB cable.
As many users write, smartphones on Android and iPhones often have problems communicating via Bluetooth. Therefore, such a somewhat sophisticated method as transferring to a memory card, then to a computer, and only after that to an iPhone, is the most efficient. You can also use regular mail and send a message with an attached .vcf file.
After the contact file (.VCF) gets on the iPhone in one of the ways described above, it should simply be opened by simply clicking on it. After opening this file, the user will see something like this window, as shown in Figure 3. There he will be able to choose whether to create new contacts or merge the contents of the .VCF with an already existing contact list.

In principle, this method does not cause any particular difficulties for users of the Russian Internet and the English-speaking segment. Many advise against even trying to use Bluetooth and immediately transfer data by mail or, best of all, via a memory card. There is an easier way for some, although there are opposing opinions.

With a Google account

This method involves the following steps:

First, you need to transfer all contacts to the Google cloud. To do this, on your smartphone, you need to open "Settings", select "Accounts", and then click on the "Google" item. The corresponding window is shown in Figure No. 4.a.

In the window that opens, the view of which is shown in Figure No. 4.b, select the “Contacts” item. The synchronization process usually takes a little time, although it all depends on the age of the phone, the version of the operating system and the size of the phone book itself.

Clue: Depending on the version of Android, the name of the menu items may vary. But it will not be difficult to understand which button is responsible for Google and contacts.

It is very convenient that on the latest versions of Android, synchronization occurs automatically. This allows the user to see contacts from their Google account in their phone book and vice versa. The first synchronization occurs immediately after the first connection of the phone to Google.

Now you should pick up the iPhone and also connect it to your Google account. To do this, do the following:

Open "Settings" in the main menu;
Open the item "Mail, addresses, calendars", the appearance of which is shown in Figure No. 4.a;
Click "Add account";
Click "Others";
Select "CardDAV Account";
Enter the “com” server, your address and password in the appropriate fields, as shown in Figure No. 4.b;
Click "Forward" and wait for the end of synchronization.

Usually, synchronization does not take much time, and if all the actions are correctly performed, in a few minutes all contacts from the Google account will appear in the phone book of the iOS device. Many users call this method the easiest, although many do not succeed in performing all the above steps.

For such cases, there are special programs for transferring data from Android to iPhone, but judging by the reviews, they do not work very well. And in general, the expediency of their existence raises many questions.

Special programs

In 2015, Apple released a special Move to iOS program that allows you to simply connect two devices using a wire or WiFi and transfer data from one to another. But among users, even from the USA, it has not gained much popularity, because this program only works on the latest Apple devices. Accordingly, it is not available to everyone else.

You should also pay attention to programs such as Wondershare Mobile Transfer and CopyTrans, which also allow you to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone. Although, in order to use them, in fact, you need to perform the same copying to removable media, which has already been described above.

Therefore, there is no particular reason to use such programs. You can see this method clearly in the video below.

When replacing an old gadget with a new smartphone, it may be necessary to transfer contacts from Android to Iphone. In addition to them, you can transfer other necessary information. Consider possible ways and methods of performing this operation. The recommendations received will help you competently and correctly complete the task without losing data.

The manual way to move contacts between phones is the easiest.

We go into the phone contacts entered in the Android system, select the desired entry, press the Share Contact line - the information is copied.
Then we send them to iPhone using SMS messages or email.
The resulting record is saved in the contacts of the new phone.

The method is suitable for transferring individual contacts. With a large number of them, it is better to do this through applications.

Via iTunes

One way to transfer contacts between devices is the itunes utility. To use it, we first install the Yandex application and carry out the “move”.

To do this, perform the following steps:

Download the program from the link "Yandex. Moving to iOS".
We start the program, we enter under our own login.
We get a PIN code.
On the iPhone we find the section "Mail, addresses, calendars".
Next is New Account.
The next line is "Other". Here we enter the name of the Yandex.ru server and our own login, then the password, and in the line "Description" the word Yandex.
We complete the procedure by pressing the "Finish" button - your phone is connected to your Yandex account.

Advice. Using iTunes, you can import contacts to your phone or tablet. A computer is used as a transmitting device.

As a result of such actions, the computer is synchronized with the phone and the data is automatically transferred.

We proceed as follows:

We connect the iPhone and the computer with a cable.
We go to the "Information" section.
Click "Sync Contacts c:".
We make an entry: Windows Contacts, and then click "Apply" - the computer is synchronized with the phone and the data is automatically transferred.

Using iCloud

First, copy the contacts of your gadget.

We proceed as follows:

We go to "Contacts".
Select "Menu".
Next - the line "Import / Export".
Next - "Export to the drive."
We will receive the Card.vcf file containing the contacts of your device. The Card.vcf file is supported by iPhone.
On the iPhone, it remains to create an e-mail that will be used as an e-mail. We send the copied Android contacts to this address.
Open iPhone mail. Of the two proposed "Create new contacts" and "Merge with contacts", select the appropriate option.

Contacts are transferred to the iPhone via iCloud - this is the email address that is registered when the device is activated. It is enough to open the mail, click on the "Attachments" item, then - the line "Add all contacts". They will show up on your new phone.

On Google with an account

To transfer contacts via Google, Android must have an account in it. If it doesn't exist, it needs to be created. How this is done is described in the previous section for Yandex.

Next, create a new account on the phone. If you need to move all the information from your old phone to another gadget, this is done by default.
If we transfer only contacts, select the "Other" line, followed by "CardDAV account". In this case, information is entered: server (google.com), personal login, password.
Add the sentence "Android Contacts" to the "Description" line.
The received information is saved.

Applications for transferring contacts

You can use various programs to move contacts between Android and iPhone. Consider the most popular of them.

Move to iOS app

The algorithm of actions is as follows:

We download the application using the App Store program for Android.
We launch it, following the instructions of the program.
Click the "Next" button, and in the menu that opens - "Search Code". The code is obtained during the initial activation of the iPhone. If the phone is already activated, you need to reset the data and perform a new activation.
Connect iPhone to Wi-Fi network.
On the activation screen, we find the section "Programs and data", select the item "Transfer data from Android", then - "Continue"
An activation code (a set of numbers) will appear in a new window.
This code is entered on Android. When the "Data Transfer" window appears, select contacts for transfer.

When a message appears about the start of data transfer, you should wait for some time and do not perform any manipulations until the end of the process.

Cloud storage Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex Drive

To work with these applications, you first need:

Install the cloud storage client.
Select the "Add" button, enter the "Contacts" folder and select all or some of them.
After synchronizing a folder in the cloud storage, it will be available for iPhone.
On iPhone, download the cloud storage client. After synchronization, you should enter the application and then, finally, access the files.

Transfer contacts via computer

You can copy contacts from Android to Iphone through a computer, in which case the last device is used as a transfer device. You must first synchronize your devices with your computer, and then use various tools and programs to transfer data.

Important. To transfer data via a computer, you must first create an account on Google or Yandex. You can do without a computer if you use the mobile Internet or Wi-Fi networks on your phone.

Transferring contacts from Android to iPhone can be done in various ways. This includes manual transfer by copying, and sending contacts via SMS messages, and operations performed via a computer and the Internet. One way is even transfer via bluetooth. A convenient way to play old contacts on a new iPhone is to save or transfer them to a SIM card. Rearranging it after that from one gadget to another, you can solve the problem.

Working with contacts, after the advent of smartphones, has become simpler and more transparent - when buying a new smartphone, you can transfer your contacts to it in just a matter of minutes. But this applies to cases where old and new devices run on the same platform. How to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone? Despite the fact that these devices work on different platforms, transferring entries from the phone book does not take too much time.

Synchronization with a Google account

Individual users still store their contacts not in a Google account, but on a SIM card or in the phone's memory. This is not entirely correct, since when changing a smartphone, contacts will have to be transferred manually. Therefore, we recommend that you store phone numbers in your Google account. To do this, you need to copy the contacts stored on the SIM card or in the device's memory into it - this is done using standard programs for working with contacts.

After copying, you need to make sure that you have sync enabled. We go to the main menu, select "Settings - Accounts - Google". In the menu that opens, we will see everything that is configured to synchronize with Google servers - we make sure that the synchronization of contacts is active or enable synchronization if it was disabled.

Make sure that your device periodically syncs its content with Google servers - this will be indicated by the date of the last sync, which will be indicated in the above menu.

The preparatory phase includes three main steps:

Copying contacts to Google;
Enable synchronization;
Waiting for contacts to sync with Google servers.

After that, we can start transferring contacts.

Ways to transfer contacts

Transfer contacts from Android to iPhone will be helped by special programs that can be found in the Playmarket app store. They allow you to transfer not only contacts, but also many other data - calendar entries, photos, videos and much more. One such application was released by the developer of iPhone smartphones - Apple. It is called "Move to iOS" and is available for download in the Playmarket. If you just need to transfer contacts to iPhone from Android without touching the rest of your data, it is enough to use the basic features, without using third-party software.

We will need:

Google smartphone with configured synchronization;
Google account login and password;
Internet-connected Apple iPhone.

Synchronization is already set up, so let's move on to transferring data to our iPhone. To do this, go to the settings and find the item "Mail, addresses, calendars" there. Here we need to add a Google account using the corresponding menu item.

Please note that not only contacts can be synchronized here, but also mail, user notes and data from the calendar.

In the next step, we need to choose what exactly we want to sync. Next, we enter the login and password from the Google account and wait until the selected data is loaded into our iPhone. As soon as the synchronization is completed, you will be able to see in the phone book of your smartphone all the contacts that were in the smartphone on Android OS.

You can also transfer contacts from Android to iPhone in another way - by exporting the necessary entries to vCard files. This is done through the phone book of an Android smartphone, after which the received files are downloaded to the iPhone via email or iTunes. This method is more laborious, but it allows you to selectively transfer contacts. However, the easiest way to clean contacts is through the Google web interface, and then transfer them to iPhone through a Google account.

Recently in Google Play the first Apple application named Move to iOS. With him, the owner of devices on Android OS can be easily transferred to any phone or tablet from Apple. We propose to consider the simplest algorithm that allows you to carry out this procedure.
Thanks to Move to iOS a person can transfer message history, contacts, photos, videos, browser bookmarks, mail, calendar events to an Apple device.
Also noteworthy is the function that allows you to search for similar applications from App Store that are installed under Android. All programs in the gadget's memory will be scanned, after which you will be prompted to download similar applications, paid applications will be placed in " a wish list».

However, users of Android devices still have to clarify some nuances, because the procedure is not suitable for all devices.

What are the requirements?

1. Version Android 4 and higher.
2. Connect iOS and Android devices to the same Wi-Fi.
3. When you transfer bookmarks from the browser, first update it to the latest version.
Also remember that both devices must have enough free memory.

Quick data transfer to iPhone/iPad from Android

Let's go directly to the procedure.
1 . On an iOS device, go to " Programs and data", select " Transfer data from Android". If you have already used an Apple device, it is better to perform a factory reset in advance. Settings->General->Reset, there you need to select the item about deleting content and settings.

2. Then Move to iOS installed on an Android device.
3. Then the program must be launched and in the window " Porting to iOS» tap on the button « Proceed". Just agree with the rest of the points and click " Further».

4. The Apple device will require confirmation, so there also tap " Proceed».
5. Then a ten-digit code will appear, and a message about a low connection speed may also be displayed, just ignore it.
6. The code itself must be entered on the device with Android OS.

7. Select the data to be transferred. The process itself can take a long time.
8. At the end of the procedure, you will again be required to click the " Ready" on Android, then " Proceed» on iOS.

To download similar apps visit App Store.

Apple devices are preloaded with the iOS operating system. For some personal reasons, a person may not like it. An important and crucial stage of changing the OS for the smartphone owner is coming - transferring contacts from iPhone to Android. Modern technologies make it possible to get rid of the routine rewriting of data from a book.

How to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android device

For the convenience of users, several ways have been created to copy contacts from iPhone to Android. To transfer information from one mobile to another, you can use different services. Cloud servers, mail agents and built-in functions of smartphones themselves will help you save a list of numbers and transfer them painlessly from iPhone to Android.

Transfer contacts to Gmail

To transfer the phone book through the mail service, you will need an account in this system. The essence of the method is to synchronize and copy your data to your Google account. Instructions on how to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android via Gmail:

go to the settings of your iPhone;
tap the section "Mail, addresses, calendars";
click the "Add account" option;
select from the list of offered Google services;
log in;
specify the necessary items to be synchronized.

These actions will copy all the data from your phone book to the account memory. If you are not sure that the import has taken place correctly, you can go to the mail through the computer and check for the presence of files on the mail service. After that, it remains only to copy the numbers:

go to the "Accounts and sync" menu;
select Google, go to the account that was used to copy from the iPhone;
specify the items for copying and agree to synchronize: the information will be transferred to your device.

Via iCloud

One of the options on how to transfer contacts from an iPhone to an android is iCloud. To do this, you must have an account in this service, an Apple ID to log into your account. Copy all the data from the phone book, then go through the browser from the computer using your website ID. Thereafter:

Select all positions from the "Contacts" section.
Click the gear icon and tap Export vCard. The information will be transferred to your PC's hard drive in one file.
Connect an Android smartphone to your computer, copy this document to the root folder of the system.
Open the list of numbers (it can be empty), go to the main menu, click the line "Import / Export".
The system will ask you to specify the source for copying, an SD card is better.
Tap the "Next" button, the smartphone will prompt you to assign a storage location, it is better to select the device itself.

Via iTunes

One of the popular programs for owners of Apple devices is iTunes. It is also another option on how to transfer your contacts from an iPhone to an android. You will need a PC with Internet access, an iPhone cable, and a Google account. It will be possible to download all the data: phone number, picture, address, etc. You need to do the following:

Launch iTunes from PC.
Connect your iPhone via cable.
The phone must be determined by the program. Click its image for a summary of the device.
Click the "Information" section.
Check the "Sync contacts" checkbox, select Google Contacts from the drop-down menu.
Enter your username and code from Google, click the "Apply" button.
The program synchronizes information with Google.
On your Android device, go to "Settings" and from the "Accounts" menu, sign in to Google.
Click on "Synchronize" and check the items to copy.

Through Yandex

If you are an ardent fan of Yandex, then they also offer an option on how to transfer contacts from an iPhone to an android - the Yandex.Moving service. It is an addition to the Disk cloud storage. To copy, you need to install an application on your iPhone that will transfer data to a cloud service plus generate a security code for this operation. Both devices must be connected to the Internet at all times. The procedure is this:

Install the Yandex.Moving utility on iPhone. Enter your username, account password, click the "Next" button. The numbers will be moved to the cloud service.
Yandex.Disk must be installed on an Android phone. Enter the same details that were used on the iPhone.
Launch the application, go to the "Settings" menu, click "Move from phone to phone".
Write the code generated earlier, tap "Start Transfer".

Using the Bump program

This program is an option on how to quickly transfer contacts from an iPhone to an android. To transfer information, the application must be available on both smartphones. Launch it and agree to activate geolocation. To transfer, do the following:

Open the list of numbers on your iPhone (the Bump app must be running).
Select phones to transfer.
A "Bump now!" button should appear.
In the dialog box, click Connect.
After that, the transfer will start, upon completion, all the selected numbers will appear in the second smartphone.

Transfer data from iPhone to Android using Outlook

To transfer phone numbers through Outlook, they must first be copied to the server. The procedure almost completely repeats the option with copying from the Google service, but you need to specify not Gmail, but Outlook. All actions require an active account in the service. On an Android smartphone, select "Outlook.com" from the list of available services to transfer. After authorization, confirm the synchronization, and all information will be copied to the device.

Contact Transfer Application My Contacts Backup

The latest version of the program is available without payment in the AppStore. If you are looking for the easiest option to transfer data from the phone book, then you need this program. Once installed, it will ask for permission to create a vCard file. Then you can transfer it to your computer or send it to yourself by mail, which you can access from your android device. Transfer it to a memory card or directly to the root directory of the device and unzip it. All data will be automatically added to your phone list.