By Nathan E. Malpass, Last updated: August 27, 2019
“Recently more and more friends around me recommended me to use an android phone, so I finally decided to stop using the iPhone after 2 years of usage. After I bought an android phone, I got one problem that I have many important clients’ contacts in my iPhone, although I know how to transfer them between iPhone, I don’t know how to transfer them to my new android phone. So please help me! Thanks in advance.”
--John
Just like John who decided to use android phone because of friends’ recommendation, you will change to use an android phone for various reasons. Once you decided to use an android phone instead of iPhone any more, you may need to think about an issue that how to transfer iPhone data to android phones, like contacts, videos, music, applications and so on.
Don’t worry, this article is exactly aimed to give you guides on how to transfer iPhone contacts to android phone. One is to use a third party data transfer tool—FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit, the other is to use iCloud. But before you have a close look at how to transfer iPhone contacts to android phone, let me show you what FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit is. Why I don’t introduce iCloud, because you must quite familiar with.
Method 1: How To Transfer Contacts From iPhone To Android Phone With Phone TransferMethod 2: How To Transfer Photos From iPhone To Android With iCloud and GmailLet's Wrap It Up
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Method 1: How To Transfer Contacts From iPhone To Android Phone With Phone Transfer
FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit is a data transfer tool, with which you can transfer your data among PC, android phone and iOS phone. It can transfer data like messages, contacts, videos, music, and photos without data loss, and it can also back up certain data.
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Tips: System Devices& System:
- Supported all iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, even the latest iOS 12 is supported.
- Supported Android from 2.3 to 9.0, phone like Samsung, HTC, Google, etc.
- Supported Windows OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP( 32 bit or 64 bit)
After you have a general idea of FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit, now you can use it to transfer the detailed information of your contacts. Here let me show you a step by step guide on how to use it to transfer contacts from iPhone to android phone.
Step 1: Prepare a computer and open a browser, then head to the FoneDog Official Websites to download and install the program
Step 2: Launch FoneDog Phone Transfer tool on your computer, then use USB cables to connect your iPhone and android phone to the PC. After that, Authorize your PC on your iPhone so that the USB Debugging could be work. If you failed to connect them, press the “Device is connected, but can’t be recognized” button, then some solutions will show to you.
Step 3: After that, the files of your iPhone will be checked and shown to you. Select the contacts field in the left menu. There are a lot of items in the contacts field.
Tips: you can plus new contacts, export them to your computer/phone or delete duplicate ones by clicking “Find duplicate contacts” option, or just merger the duplicate contacts.
Step 4: Once you hit the button Export to device icon and choose the target phone, for example, Samsung or HTC, the software will clone and paste the phone book stored in your iPhone to your android phone. When it has done, hit OK and finish the transfer process.
Step 5: Look at the top menu, you can choose the android phone to view the transfer results in the android contacts item. At this time, you can also add new contacts information, like name, email, number.
Method 2: How To Transfer Photos From iPhone To Android With iCloud and Gmail
This method of how to transfer iPhone contacts to Android devices based on iCloud can be worked on your iPhone. Here is a step-by-step guide.
Step 1: Head to your iPhone settings, select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”.
Step 2: When you see “iCloud” is shown to you, select “Accounts, then press a button to turn on the “Contacts”.
Step 3: Wait for a few minutes to let you iPhone “Merge” your device’s contacts with your iCloud account.
Step 4: When the process of “Merging” is finished, go to iCloud official websites at icloud.com on your PC’s web browser, then log in your Apple ID, after that, choose Contacts. Press the wheel icon in the bottom left corner, then click “ Select All”, next up, press the gear again and select “ Export vCard”
Step 5: When you finished the steps mentioned above, go to Gmail official websites at gmail.com, then press the “Mail” button, next choose “ Contacts”
Step 6: After you open “Contacts”, press the “More” button, choose “ Import”, then select “ Choose File”, after that, select the saved vCard file
Step 7: When the importing process is finished, the number of contacts which have been imported will be shown by Gmail.
Step 8: At this time, you can preview the contacts and find out repeated ones one by one, then you are able to delete them. You can simply click the “ Fine & Merge Duplicates” button which below the ‘More” button to delete those duplicated contacts.
Transfer contacts from iPhone to Android with iCloud and Gmail is one optional way, but as you can see from the above steps which are a little complicated and ineffective for you need to import and export the contacts through different devices and websites.
Let's Wrap It Up
As you can see, we may change our phone for various reasons, but how to transfer the data, especially important contacts, from the previous phone to a new phone is a problem. Although there many methods, but all of you just want to find an easy but effective way. Therefore, FoneDog Phone Transfer is an exactly a perfect tool for you to solve this problem, with which you can easily transfer your contacts from iPhone to android by one click in minutes. So if you like it, just have a try or you have any advice for improving the software, please leave a comment below, we will soon reply to you.
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