For all mobile phone users, regardless they are iPhone or Android users, the most valuable data on the phone are normally contacts. For example, if you lose apps on your phone, you can always download them again. But if you lose the contacts on your phone, you will have troubles contacting your families, friends and colleagues. You can only try to use a data recovery tool to get the contacts back. In order to prevent this situation from happening, you need to backup the contacts constantly. So we will show you four methods to backup the iPhone contacts in the following article.
Way 1. Use iTunes to backup iPhone contacts
1. Use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to your computer.
2. Launch iTunes on your PC.
3. When iTunes recognize your device, you will see your device showing on the upper right corner besides iTunes Store. Then, you have to click your device.
4. Hit the button Info on the menu bar of the program.
5. Check the option Sync Contacts with. You can either choose all contacts or particular group of the contacts you want to the destination folder.
Hit the Sync button. Then you just have to wait for the contacts in your device to be synced.
All your iPhone contacts will be transferred at one time which is not quite convenient. In addition, the process of updating iTunes is not easy since the update pack is large and you need to restart the computer after downloading.
Way 2. Backup contacts on your iPhone to iCloud
1. Go to settings on your iPhone.
2. Go down at the settings and click iCloud.
3. Log in your iCloud account with the right password.
4. Locate Contacts and switch it on.
5. Hit Storage & Backup then go with Back Up Now
Then all the iPhone contacts will be uploaded to the iCloud as backup files. iCloud will backup the contacts automatically at a regular frequency only if you keep the network connected all the time. The downside of this way is that you need to keep the network available and you need to log in the iCloud account to download the contact files.
Way 3. Use iPhone Data Recovery to backup contact in your iPhone.
FoneLab is a powerful iPhone data recovery tool for users to backup iPhone data. You can easily get lost files back or delete useless files on your iPhone, iPod and iPad with the software. What’s more, you can backup the files on your iDevices to your computer. You are able to learn about the process of backing up contacts with FoneLab here.
Way 4. Use FoneTrans to backup contact on iPhone
If you find using iTunes or iCloud to backup the iPhone files annoying and you don’t want to use a recovery tool. You can try the following method out. You can use FoneTrans, a powerful iOS tool which enables you to transfer files from iDevices to computer as backup files or transfer the files between your different iDevices. With the help of FoneTrans, you can manage the transferring process easily and quickly.
1.To start with you have to get FoneTrans downloaded and installed on your computer.
2. Use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to PC. The program will detect the files on your device.
3. On the left directory tree, click Contacts.
4. Select all the contacts or the exact contacts you want. Then hit the button Back/Restore to continue. Then you just have to wait for the contacts to be backed up automatically.
You can tell from the above instructions that it is very simple. When you want to restore the contacts to your iPhone, you can repeat the same process.
5. if your want to switch iPhone contacts to Gmail (Optional)
Finally, we make it to this step. Open your Gmail account, and log on to it. Then upload this .csv file to Gmail. Done!