How To Sync Contacts On iPhone With Icloud

After purchasing a new iPhone, not all users want to transfer all information from the old device. In many cases, you need to throw off only the contacts, with which some owners of Apple smartphones have problems. In this guide, we talked about how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone in the two most simple and correct ways.

How to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to iPhone via iCloud

The way to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone through iCloud is the easiest and fastest. All that is required of you is to have access to the Internet.

Step 1. On the iPhone from which you want to transfer contacts, go to the menu “Settings»→ iCloud and make sure the switch “Contacts»Active.

Step 2. Go to the menu “Settings»→ iCloud → “Backup copy“And click”Back up“. Wait for the process to finish.

Advice! You can verify successful synchronization of contacts with the cloud on iCloud.com. The number of entries in the contact books (displayed at the bottom of the list) should be the same.

Step 3. On the iPhone to which you want to transfer contacts, go to the “Settings»→ iCloud and log in with your iCloud account. If you have already been logged in, you can skip the step.

Step 4. In the menu “Settings»→ iCloud (on the new iPhone) activate the “Contacts“.

Done! Your contacts after only a couple of minutes (time depends on the number of contacts) will be transferred to the new iPhone. To make sure that the transfer is over, you can see the number of contacts at the very bottom of the contact book.

How to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to iPhone via iTunes

If for some reason you cannot use the method of transferring contacts from iPhone to iPhone using iCloud, you will have to use iTunes. This method is also not complicated, however, to use it you will need to connect devices to the computer.

Step 1. Connect your old iPhone to your computer and launch iTunes.

Advice! It is recommended that you update iTunes to the latest version. On a PC, you can check for updates in the Help menu → Updates, and on a Mac, go to the Updates tab in the Mac App Store.

Step 2. Select iPhone from the iTunes menu and go to the “Intelligence“.

Step 3. Activate the checkmark “Sync contacts with” and press “To apply“. Note that synchronization of contacts with iCloud should be turned off.

Step 4. After synchronization is complete, disconnect the old iPhone and connect a new one to the computer.

Step 5. Select iPhone in the iTunes menu, go to the “Intelligence“And activate the item”Sync contacts with“. Step 6. Scroll the settings page down to the”Additions“And activate the item”Contacts“. Important. Itunes will replace the contacts available on the new iPhone.

Step 7. Click “To apply“.

Done! In this simple way, you can transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone using iTunes.