How to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone

Switching from Android to iPhone is exciting, with many new features waiting to be explored! But before you start using Siri voice assistant, you may want to make sure that all the data in your old Android phones can be safely migrated to your iPhone. This article will explain how to transfer contacts from Android to a new iPhone.

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Most Android users have created at least one Google account. If you are one of them, you can use this account to move your contacts to your iPhone. You just need to set up some synchronization process. The steps are as follows:

1. On your Android phone, go to Settings > Accounts.
2. Click on the Google account you will use for data transfer and make sure the Sync Contacts option is enabled. This is actually backing up your contacts to Google.
3. Go to your iPhone and visit Settings > Mail.
4. In the email, click Account and add the account you use on Android.
5. Make sure Contact is enabled.

Your contacts should now be synced from Android to iPhone via this Google account. We like this approach because it automatically syncs your contacts so they are always "binded" with your Google account and can be easily migrated to a new device. The downside is that if you are used to syncing everything to the cloud, it can quickly mess up the cloud.

Install Dropshare and get 10GB of cloud storage for your convenience on your new iPhone. You can use it to store large videos and other large files that you don't want to store locally. In addition to dedicated cloud storage, Dropshare allows you to integrate with other cloud services you use, so everything is centralized in one place.

How to transfer data from Android to iPhone using SIM card

If you can use an old Android SIM card on your iPhone (not all Android SIM cards are the same size as your iPhone SIM card), you can choose to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone via this SIM card. Of course, this method can only migrate contacts, not anything else. If you need to do this, follow these steps:

1. Open the Contacts app on your Android phone.
2. Click on the three dots or gear icon.
3. Click on the SIM card contact (if you have two SIM cards, select the one you want to use).
4. Click on three dots > Import from your phone.
5. Select all contacts or specific contacts you want to transfer and click Done.
6. When done, remove the SIM card and insert it into your iPhone.
7. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Contacts.
8. Click Import SIM Contacts and wait for a few minutes.
9. Once the import is complete, your Android contacts will be available on your iPhone.

Transfer contacts from Android to iPhone via Mac

In fact, when we switch to a new phone, it is rare to just transfer contacts. We also accumulate photos, files and a lot of other content on our phones over time. This is why having a powerful data transfer tool that can migrate anything is an ideal solution. Please check the following two tools.

AnyDroid is a content migration app for Mac. You might ask, why is it a Mac? Well, if you have a Mac, it's very convenient to use it as a middleman for content transfers, as you don't have to pick the type of data you want to transfer from your phone. Instead, move it to your Mac and view all Android content conveniently.

Once you move Android content to your Mac, connect your new iPhone to your Mac and then open AnyTrans for iOS. It is a companion app for AnyDroid, both available via a Setapp subscription, which is available for free for 7 days, so you don't need to worry about buying these apps.

Now, move your Android contacts from your Mac to your iPhone:

1. In AnyTrans, go to the home page (Content Management section).
2. Click the plus button on the mobile phone picture.
3. Upload contacts to iPhone.

If you need to reverse action, you need to know how to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android. It's easy - use the same app combination, AnyDroid and AnyTrans for iOS. If you don't sync them automatically to your Mac, just move the contacts from your iPhone to your Mac first and transfer them to Android using AnyDroid.

If you want to transfer Android to iPhone after setting up—that is, you want to transfer all your data—just use AnyTrans for iOS. Connect both phones to your Mac, open AnyTrans and go to the Content Migration section. Click to move the data.

Tips for Mac users: Get advanced contact management tools

Now that you've learned how to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone, let's take a moment to improve your contact management process. If you have a Mac, you can significantly improve your productivity by replacing the default contact with BusyContacts. Not only does this app make it easier to sync your contacts across Google and any email account, but BusyContacts is also far ahead in integrating with email, to-do lists and more.

Once BusyContacts is integrated with email, calendar, and more, you can track events by contact—for example, if someone attends a meeting with you, it will be recorded in the Events section of BusyContacts. You can even sync your contacts with your social media connections and track your interaction history across multiple platforms.

BusyContacts is not essential, but if you use any other app via Setapp—for example, AnyDroid, AnyTrans for iOS, or Dropshare we mentioned earlier—why not install BusyContacts as well? No additional costs or commitments are incurred.

Please read also:

• Merge contacts on iPhone
• Target disk mode Mac
• Delete contacts on iPhone
• Temporary iCloud storage space

Easily transfer contacts to new iPhone

Let's briefly summarize. We learned how to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone using Google Accounts, SIM cards and data transfer apps.

The SIM method is very simple, but it only works if you have a SIM card that can be used on Android and iPhone - and only contacts can be transferred. If you don't mind using cloud sync to transfer contacts, you can rely on your Google account.

The easiest way is to use data migration apps such as AnyDroid and AnyTrans for iOS, which give you the maximum control and allow you to transfer all data between devices, including media files, messages, and contacts. Both are part of Setapp, available for free for 7 days of trial, as well as utility tools such as Dropshare and BusyContacts.

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