3 Ways to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android

It’s reported that generally the market share of Android has been increased to over 70% while the share of iOS is beginning to slide. Whatever the reason is for such phenomenon, the fact is that there will be a trend of more smart phone users swaping iPhone to Android Phone.

Copying contacts from iPhone to Android might be the very first thing to do when you got a brand new Android phone. The process is not too complicated to do, but it requires a few steps and a little time which actually depend on the method you choose, and this blog will show you three ways to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android more easily.

Transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

This is supposed to be the most convenient way among the four solutions which are going to be explained below.

Step 1. Download and install Gihosoft Phone Transfer

A free trial version is available on the phone transfer official website, which can only allow you to transfer 10 contacts from iPhone to Android phone for free. If you buy the software, you are refrained from exporting contacts within a limited amount. Once you registered the software, feel free to move any files such as contacts, SMS, calendar, photos, videos, music and even apps, from iPhone to other Android smartphones.

Step 2. Connect iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S7/S8 to PC

When you open Gihosoft mobile phone transfer software, please tap "Phone to Phone" and then connect both iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S6/S7 edge/S8 to your PC via USB cable. If your Samsung Galaxy phone or iPhone fails to be recognized, you may unplug it and retry again.

Step 3. Select the file you want to transfer from iPhone to Android 

What you need to do is to tick “Contacts” on the middle of interface screen. If you need to transfer other files, you should select the files that you need to transfer from iPhone to new Android phone.

Step 4. Start transferring contacts from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S7/S8

Once you click “Start Copy” button, the software will immediately begin transferring the iPhone contacts to the Samsung Galaxy. All information related to the contacts such as profile, name, title, company and email address will be completely copied to the Android phone.

An Alternative way to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

iTunes is Apple’s powerful software that is able to backup loads of data from iPhone and sync the data to other smartphones. When moving phone data like contacts to other phones, the latest version of iTunes would be highly recommended.

iPhone:

1. Launch the latest iTunes and plug your iPhone to the PC via USB cable.

2. Navigate to the device settings and go to “Info” tab.

3. Tick “Sync Contacts with” under the tab, and select “Google Contacts” from the drop-down list.

4. Enter your Gmail username and password on the pop-up prompt as an admission of syncing contacts.

Samsung Galaxy:

1. Navigate to Settings > Accounts (and Sync)

2. Add “Google account” and tick “Sync Contacts” to allow google to sync contacts to your new phone

Last but not least method to move contacts from iPhone to Android

iCloud, another service provided by Apple, is created to backup iPhone files with limited storage space, if you need more space, you have to pay for it. However, it is fairly useful to transfer small files like contacts from iPhone to Android.

1. Navigate to Settings> iCloud> enter iCloud username and password to sign in.

2. Tab “Contacts” to sync iPhone contacts with iCloud server under network.

3. Export contacts stored in a VCF file from iCloud, then copy the VCF file to the Android phone via USB or other third party tools.

4. Open Android phone, go to “Contacts”> “More”> “Import/Export contacts”> Import from VCF file.

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