There is a good chance that your contact list is in a cloud, but it may not be entirely clear to you which cloud they are in. The iCloud contacts are the ones that your Apple devices will use by default, although things change if you use other services such as Gmail. Let’s see what steps to take to copy contacts from Gmail to iCloud easily .
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Copying contacts from Gmail to iCloud is easy thanks to macOS integration
On your Mac, open System Preferences and go to the ‘Internet Accounts’ panel . If your Google account is not already added, add it by clicking on the + button and selecting ‘Google’ (you will need to log in with your Gmail account by following the steps on the screen):
Once you have done this, click on the Google account from the left sidebar and check that ‘Contacts’ is activated in the right area:
This will cause the Contacts app to show your Google contacts in a new section in the right sidebar . Open it to check it, although it is something that can take a few minutes to complete depending on the number of contacts you have:
The next step is already the last one: the only thing left for you to do is to select all the Google contacts (you can do this by selecting one and then pressing CMD+A) and drag them to the iCloud section . All those contacts will be copied to the Apple cloud.
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With this mode you don’t delete Google contacts , you just make a duplicate in iCloud. If you also want to delete them from the Gmail account, you can do it by selecting all of them again (CMD+A) and pressing the backspace key as if you were deleting text. Of course, all the contacts you’ve copied to iCloud will be synced and appear on the rest of your Apple devices.
