Learn Various ways to export contacts from iPhone. In my opinion, saving contacts in the SIM card is the smarter option. Whenever you buy a new iPhone or replace your old one with another device, you can import contacts from the SIM to the new iPhone. Do you know the procedure of how to transfer SIM contacts to the iPhone? Don’t worry today in this post I’ll show you the quickest way to transfer SIM card contacts to iPhone. Without any Third-Party Software, we can Transfer Contacts from any iPhone model or SIM to Other Mobile platforms.
All the information that you have saved while creating the contact will be transferred along with the contact. Apple says that “iPhone doesn’t store the contacts on SIM card. If you want to transfer contacts between iPhones, you can use iCloud backup or transfer content between devices”.
If you are switching from another phone to the iPhone, ensure that the SIM card fits into the iPhone. Before inserting the old SIM into the iPhone, remove the new SIM and then carefully insert and import the contacts from the SIM to the iPhone. Head over to complete the import process correctly.
Steps to saving contacts from iPhone to SIM
- Insert the SIM card in your iPhone to import the contacts. Now follow the steps,
- Go to the “Settings” app on the iPhone.
- Locate and tap “Contacts”.
- Then, tap “Import SIM Contacts”.
- Let the process get completed. Select iCloud.
- Now, go to the “Contacts” app and check if the contacts are imported successfully.
As you have imported the contacts from SIM card to iPhone, if you not found the imported contacts in iPhone then restart the iPhone and check if contacts are visible on the iPhone.
Save All Contacts to Gmail
Method- 1
Find Import SIM Contacts option under the settings, Select your Gmail account if you set up a Gmail account on your iPhone.
Method- 2
Your iPhone will take contacts back up in iCloud automatically if Contacts Backup is enabled from the settings app.
- Open the Settings app
- Tap on your Profile name
- Tap iCloud
- Turn the toggle right side next to the Contacts option.
That’s it.
Now, Export from iCloud and import all contacts to Gmail
Now you can access all the contacts on the Web using iCloud.com.
Log in with your Apple ID and password that you used on the iPhone. Export contacts first and restore in Gmail. Please watch the video tutorial below.
I hope you enjoyed this article and learn alternate ways to copy contacts from iPhone to SIM and transfer SIM Contacts to Gmail. First, copy to iPhone, and move all from iPhone to Gmail using iCloud.
