How to Copy Contacts from iPhone to a Android Phone??
First of all, we shall assume the following in the article:
- iTunes installed on your PC and already in sync with the
iPhone Contacts (please refer to Disclaimer at the end of this article)
- Should have an Android phone with a MicroSD card and knows how to access the files on it.
- You should have a valid GMail account / if NOT than create a new Gmail A/C.
Contacts
There are 2 methods that are generally used thus far:
1) Syncing the iPhone contacts directly via iTunes to Google Contacts, will then sync with the Android phone.
2)
Outputting the iPhone contacts to Windows Contacts (CSV format) and
then importing the CSV files to Google Contacts (Windows Vista and
Windows 7).
For Option 1:
It is perhaps the easiest and most straightforward way to get the contacts from the iPhone to the Android phone.
Steps as below:
- Connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to the computer using the USB cable.
- Open the iTunes application.
- Select customer’s iPhone and click the Info tab.
- Check the Sync Contacts with option and select Google Contacts from the drop-down menu.
· Click on Sync or Apply on iTunes.
· After the iTunes Sync Process is Complete, disconnect iPhone.
· Go
to Android Phone – ensure internet is working – go to contacts – Menu
-> Merge with Google a/c – Sign In to Gmail a/c- finish setup – Sync
will start – Contacts will be copied.
The
downside of this is that Apple does not allow us to sync these contacts
to a specific group that we set up. Only 2 syncing options will be
provided: Merge and Replace. The iPhone contacts thus, will simply be
added to the rest of your Google Contacts (if you choose Merge). So, if
customer were to sync his Android device after this, he would get a
massive group of both email contacts and phone contacts with no way to
identify the imported iPhone contacts.
For Option 2, it only works with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
1) Using Windows Contacts to export Existing Contacts to CSV
- Check the Sync Contacts with option and select Windows Contacts from the drop-down menu.
- Save this file in a convenient location for the next step.
2) Importing Your CSV File to Google Contacts
Log into the Gmail account on PC and click the “Contacts” link.
Click Import On the right hand side of the Contacts screen and then browse to find the CSV file you exported earlier.
Important
Make
sure you click the “Also add these imported contacts to:” tick
box and select a new group for these contacts to be added to. We can
create a new group prior to this by clicking on the 2nd left icon –
Creating New Group. This will make sure that the iPhone contacts are
differentiated from all other contacts and we can simply import them to
the new Android Phone.
