How to Transfer Contacts from One iPhone to Another iPhone X/8/7/6s/6

Updated Nov 22,2017 | by Niko

When you got a new iPhone, one of the most important things is to transfer all your contacts from the old one to your new iPhone. Or you need to get all your contacts back after restoring your iPhone. No matter what, first you have to figure out how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone? 

Actually, iCloud is not the only way to sync your iPhone contacts. Since Apple offers you limited iCloud storage space amount, many users choose to use other third-party applications and software to backup and transfer iPhone contacts.

If you don’t use iCloud, and are looking for a simple but reliable way to manage or transfer contacts on iPhone, you could check the following guide, in which we will show how to transfer contacts from one iPhone to another iPhone X/8/7/6s/6 easily and securely.

How to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to iPhone

IOTransfer is the best option for you to manage and transfer contacts, photos, music, videos, books, voice memos and etc. from iPhone to iPhone. Moreover, IOTransfer cannot only clean up your iOS devices, but also be used as YouTube video downloader for downloading videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other popular video-sharing websites.

*IOTransfer is available for Windows PC, and supports iPhone, iPad & iPod touch with iOS 8 or later

How to transfer iPhone contacts? In addition sync contacts between 2 iOS devices, IOTransfer allows you to backup contacts to PC, import contacts from PC to iPhone and bulk-delete contacts with 1 click as well.

Ok, let’s see how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone with IOTransfer.

First of all, download IOTransfer.

·         Connect your iPhone to computer, and open IOTransfer

·         Select ‘Contacts’, and tap on ‘Transfer to PC’ button to transfer contacts from iPhone to PC with 1 click, it will be saved as .ctt file

·         Connect your new iPhone to PC until IOTransfer recognizes it

·         Go to Contacts tab > click ‘Import’ > choose the .ctt file

Now, you successfully transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone. With these steps, you are able to transfer contacts between iPhone, iPad, iPod and PC as you like. So, if you want to manage, backup and transfer your iPhone contacts, IOTransfer is always a top choice.

Of course, you can use other methods to transfer contacts to new iPhone as well, such as iTunes. Here's how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone via iTunes.

First, backup iPhone contacts.

1. connect your iPhone to PC, and run iTunes

2. open Device > Summary > Backups

3. choose “This computer”, and click “Back Up Now” button

Then iTunes will backup your iPhone contacts as well as other contents & files to PC. To transfer the contacts backup to another iPhone, you need to connect the new iPhone, and restore it with the old iTunes backup.

Note that, in this way, the existing data and contents on the new iPhone will be erased. So we always suggest you to choose other reliable methods.

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