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How to export contacts on your Apple iPhone 4S

We will see at best in this tutorial how export your contacts to your Apple iPhone 4S. Contacts are a very important feature of your Apple iPhone 4S and so you may want to export them from your Apple iPhone 4S to another phone or the Cloud. To make the best use of the features offered by contacts, it's very simple.

We will see how to export your contacts from your Apple iPhone 4S to another smartphone first, from your Apple account located in the 'Cloud' secondly, third from files in vCard or VCF files, and finally to CSV files editable with a spreadsheet such as Apple Sheet.

Export your contacts from another device to your Apple iPhone 4S

To export contacts from another device, you must first export them to your SIM card or an SD card. To do this, you will need to insert a SIM or SD card into your new Apple iPhone 4S. Once done, go to the category Contacts of your Apple iPhone 4S. In this menu, you can then press the 'Settings' key, located at the bottom right of your Apple iPhone 4S. An option 'Export' to the SIM card or the memory card will then be available to you. Tap on it according to your backup mode.

Follow the on-screen instructions and your contacts will be exported to your backup media inserted in your Apple iPhone 4S.

Export your contacts from Apple Cloud to your Apple iPhone 4S

This is a little known option but very interesting for those who know how to do it: export your contacts from the Cloud to your Apple iPhone 4S. To do this, go to the 'Settings' menu, accessible from the home screen of your Apple iPhone 4S, then in 'Account and Synchronization'. Once there, click on your Apple account.

This will open a new window which will allow you to check the synchronization of contacts, emails and calendars.

Choose what you want to activate and it will automatically export your contacts to the Apple Cloud.

Export your contacts to a VCF file on your Apple iPhone 4S

Another option to export your contacts from your Apple iPhone 4S is to use VCF files. This option will allow you, along with the CSV files, to share your contact lists from your Apple iPhone 4S as well. As in the first paragraph of this article, go to the 'Import / Export' section of the 'Contacts' folder of your Apple iPhone 4S. From there, click on 'Export' then choose the VCF format. Once you have validated the operation and having selected the source VCF file, you can export all your contacts from your Apple iPhone 4S. Conversely, you can import contacts to make a new backup on your Apple iPhone 4S.

Export your contacts to a CSV file from your Apple iPhone 4S

If you want your files to be in CSV format, then to export them to your Apple iPhone 4S, you will need to go through an export from your Gmail account. Once in your Gmail account, click on 'Contacts' above the compose email button. Then click on 'More actions' and finally on 'Export'. Choose the CSV file to which you want to export your contacts, and validate. Once finished, you can synchronize any Apple iPhone 4S with your Gmail account as mentioned in the previous paragraph.

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