Transfer Contact Iphone to Iphone Ipad

How to transfer contact iPhone to iPhone or  moving old iPhone contact number address list to another new iPhone.

                     There are many way you can transfer only contacts from iPhone to iPhone, iOS device or computer. You can use iCloud, iTunes Gmail and outlook for sync and transferring contact from iPhone to iPhone. Even you can merge old iPhone contact with new iPhone or iOS devices.

              You can use airdrop for transferring only contact from iPad to iPhone in no time. You can also sms or use iMessage to transfer mobile number list from iPhone to iPhone and even you can use WhatsApp for transferring contact list, phone number from iPad to iPad or computer.  By airdrop you can transfer iPhone music, video songs, movies, apps  and calendar also.

Procedure 1) Transfer  address book contact iPhone to another iPhone using iCloud.

                      Log in with apple id on iPhone. Now on your old iPhone, go to setting – icloud – then turn on contact – now backup iPhone on iCloud. This will transfer all iPhone data including music, mp3 playlist, photos , pictures and address-book contact. If you restore iPhone with this old iPhone backup. Then your old iPhone data will be transferred to new iPhone. But this will delete data on new iPhone. It replace data with old iPhone. This will also transfer old iPhone contact to new iPhone.

                       If you want to transfer only contact from iPhone to iPhone or iPad. Then log in to iCloud using same apple id you have used on iPhone. Click on contact – select all -then click on setting at lower left side and select export Vcard. This will export contact list – mobile number list to Vcard file. Now using email and send mail to another email. Open email id on new iPhone. Then open email with vcard file and open that attachment. You will be prompted to import those vcard data to iPhone. Click yes and all your contact will be transfer to iPhone. This way you can transfer only contact from iPhone to iPhone or iPad to iPad .

Procedure 2)IPad to iPhone contact list transfer using airdrop.

                  Airdrop is preinstalled app on iPhone and iOS devices. You can use airdrop for transferring iPad contacts to iPhone / iPad / iOS devices or Mac computer.  You can also transfer video songs, mp3, movies, pictures from iPhone to iPhone using airdrop. This is very useful app, when you want to transfer selected number list from iPhone instead of transferring entire contact address book.

               For that open control center on iPhone. There you can see airdrop. If airdrop is not turn on, then turn on Bluetooth and WiFi on iPhone. Airdrop use both Bluetooth and WiFi. It can transfer contact music and video within the range of Bluetooth and WiFi. Now open contact, select contact that you want to transfer from iPhone. At bottom side tap on share and choose airdrop. You will see the list of nearby iOS devices. Select the iPhone to which you want to transfer contact and then send. On another iPhone, you will get popup message that accept or decline content from other iPhone. Tap on accept and your contact is transferred to another iPhone.  Here is how to transfer music from iPhone to computer. Airdrop can be used to transfer music, video, pictures and app from iPhone to iPhone.

Procedure 3) Ipad / iPhone contact transfer to iPhone using iTunes.

 

  Here what we do is, we first sync iPhone with iTunes from which we want to transfer contact to iPhone. Process is similar to how we sync music from iPhone to iTunes. 

      1.     Open iTunes on your computer.

      2.     Connect iPhone to computer via USB or WiFi.

      3.      Iphone will be recognized by computer iTunes and it will show under device tab. Click on device tab, select iPhone from which contact are to be transferred.

      4.      Click on info tab under iPhone device. So you will see different option.

      5.     Select address book contacts and at the bottom click on sync. This will sync old iPhone contact to iTunes. Or you can say old iPad / iPhone contact address book are transferred to iTunes.

      6.     Connect new iPhone to iTunes. And sync iPhone to computer iTunes. After that contact are transferred to new iPhone. If you have some contact on new iPhone. You don’t want that it was replace with old iPad contact. At the bottom, you will find advance option. Under advance option, you will see replace information on this iPhone. Make sure contacts are not selected. Now it will merge contact of old iPhone with new iPhone. This way you can merge transfer iPhone contact to new iPhone. In newer version of iTunes, you may not find this info tab. This iPad iPhone tips tricks for contact transfer may not work. You can go for iCloud method. You can restore iPhone with the backup of old iPhone. This will transfer contact of old iPhone to new iPhone.  Restoring iPhone iPad will also replace music, video, songs, mp3 on new iPhone with old iPhone library. This work with iPod touch, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone 7, iPad air and iPad pro. Iphone restore can solve many problems like iPhone won’t turn on, iPhone stuck at apple logo screen, iPhone disabled locked and iPhone hanging. I have created post about how to restore iPhone without deleting data. That will help you to troubleshoot many iPhone iPad or iOS device problem. I have created separate post for iPhone troubleshooting. In which I added entire procedure for how to fix iPhone would not power on and iPad stuck at apple log screen. Go through that to fix iPhone problem.

Procedure 4) manually iPad contact list transfer to iPad / iPhone using messaging app iMessanger or email.

 

In this method we will transfer contact between two iPhone and two iPad.

  Open contact on iPad - then tap on contact –  tap share contact and at bottom you will see airdrop, message and email. You can use imessager or email to transfer this contact between two iPhone.  When you send message /email that message is in vcard form. When you open that message on other iPhone. It ask you to import contact tap yes and new contact will be added to another iPad.

Procedure 5) iPhone address book, contact, mobile list transfer to iPad iPhone using Gmail.

In android mobile like Samsung galaxy, LG mobile, Motorola you can directly backup and sync contact to Gmail. But for iOS devices you can not directly synchronize or backup on Gmail. You need to use iTunes for that.

1. First connect old iPhone / iPad to computer.

2.  Then open iTunes and click on device tab.

3. Find your iPad or iPhone and click on it.

4. Just adjacent to summary tab there is info tab. Click on info.

5. Select sync contact with and there are options for google account, outlook and windows. Select google account, it may prompt for log in, log in with Gmail id.

6. Old iPad contacts are synchronized with Gmail account. You have two option. Either you export contact list or address book from google or sync new iPhone with Gmail account.

7.  To export contact mobile number list from Gmail. Open gmail - click on my contact – click on more and export list and save it on computer.

  Email that file to your any email id and open it on iPhone. When you try to open that attachment, it ask to import, click yes and your contact list will be added to new iPhone.

8.  Otherwise connect iPhone to computer and it will be detected by computer iTunes. Click on device then select your iPhone, click on info tab and sync contact with iPhone. This way contact and address book are transferred between two iPad and two iPhone.