IPhones are high-quality smartphones and with which we can enjoy unique applications such as Facetime , it gives you options such as calling with your hidden number and many messaging applications that are also on Android such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
How to Export iPhone Contacts to SIM, Android, Gmail, iCloud, Excel or PC
If for some reason you want to change your iPhone for an Android device or another iPhone and you do not want to lose your contacts, there are several ways you can make a backup of them, then we are going to give you several methods so that you do not lose your contacts under no concept .
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- Export your contacts to SIM card, Gmail, Android iCloud
- Export contacts to PC and Excel
Export your contacts to SIM card, Gmail, Android iCloud
The first option is to save them on the SIM card to do so is very simple, the first thing you have to do is access the Contacts, being there you give the gear that is in the lower left to display a menu, you are going to choose Import / export, there it will give you several options, you will choose Export to SIM card and voila, the phone will transfer all your contacts to the SIM.
The problem with the SIM card is that it does not have much memory so you could also transfer them to your Gmail contacts and thus always have them available.
To do this, the first thing you need to do is download Google Drive on your iPhone, once you have downloaded it you enter with your Gmail account, then you will go to the Settings menu, then where it says ‘make a backup’ that will appear Third on the menu.
Then you will get several options, to make backup copies of your Contacts, Calendar Events and Photos and videos, for now we are interested in making the contacts so you choose the first option. When you choose Contacts, a button will appear that tells you to create backup copies in Google Contacts , you activate it and then you click the arrow on the top left to return to the previous menu.
Then you give the blue button at the bottom that says’ create backup, Google will ask you for certain permissions, you accept them and that’s it, your contacts will be in Gmail. Once you access your Android phone with this Gmail account, all your contacts will appear if you need to do nothing more .
To save them and have them available in your iCloud it is also very simple you just have to enter Settings then iCloud then you give it where it says Storage and copy, while there you will see several options, Contacts will be second, choose what you want to save in iCloud down to where it says Active Backup the option Copy to iCloud.
Then you click where it says Backup now and voila, everything you have chosen to save will be in your iCloud account and you can recover it whenever you want.
Export contacts to PC and Excel
To export your contacts to your computer or laptop and have them in an Excel sheet is also very simple. The first thing you should do is save your contacts to an SD card for that you access the same menu where you exported your contacts to the SIM card but this time you choose the option Export to SD card
You will be asked for confirmation and you are going to accept and immediately the Contacts.vcf file will be created that you can transfer it to the PC with a USB cable or send it to your email or another application by searching for it on the SD card with the My Files application and clicking the button to share.
Already having the Contacts.vcf file on your computer, transforming it into an Excel file is easy, you simply have to access the vCard Converter , once there you will give it where it says Select file next to V-Card file, select the Contacts file, then where it says Format you will mark CVS and Semicolon and then click where it says Convert.
When it finishes converting, it will download a file called Contacts.cvs that you can open with Excel and there will be all your contacts with phone number and email.
