Ever said “I lost your contact details” to someone? Now you need not to! Technology has become so advanced that we can’t use these meaningless excuses. Here we have covered tips and tricks to keep all your contacts safe and device independent. No matter if you use your iPhone or an Android device, all you need to do is sign in with your Google contacts and import and export contacts all your saved contacts on any device.

We are going to discuss different scenarios and different types of migration. From Gmail to Android, from Gmail to iPhone, from Android to iPhone, iCloud to Google or vice versa. This will help you to recover deleted contacts during critical circumstances.

If you are using multiple Android / iPhone devices or you’re planning to go for a new smartphone, you can be certain that all your Google contacts will be available on all your devices associated with the same Google account. However, if you have contacts left over the phone’s local storage or SIM card, you won’t be available to access those contacts on other devices. To solve this conundrum below you can find an easy and step-by-step process to import and export contacts on the same Google Account and get them on all your devices at the same time.

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Export Contacts from Device to Google Account

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to transfer contacts assuming that you have a device associated with the same Google account.

Android Device

SIM to Google Account

Exporting contacts from your SIM to your Google account is quite an easy and quick process which will save you a lot of time and frustration in the future. That means when you plan to use a new smartphone, all you need to do is to log in to your Google account and all your personal and professional contacts will be ready to use on a new device.

Step 1. Open Contacts on your device -> Tap the three dots at the top right-hand corner to open the menu -> select ‘Import/Export’ OR ‘Import/Export Contacts’.

Step 2. Select ‘Export from SIM card’, which will export Names and Numbers saved on your smartphone’s SIM card in (.CSV / .VCF) File on your selected location. -> Give a file (name.csv) and tap on Save / Export. Generally, it gets exported to device storage.

Phone Storage to Google Account

Now it’s time to import the exported file from device storage to Google account.

Step 3. Open Contacts on your device -> Tap the three dots at the top right-hand corner to open the menu -> select ‘Import/Export’ OR ‘Import/Export Contacts’.

Step 4. Tap on ‘Import vCard File’ and locate and tap the vCard file to be imported from the device storage and let the import process complete.

Importing Contacts on a PC / Laptop

If you have the Google account open on a Laptop / PC, you may also follow the following steps.

From your smartphone, send that exported (.CSV / .VCF) file on your email and download it on your PC.

Step 1. Open contacts page in your Google account by clicking on the ‘Google Apps’ option (9 dots on the top right of the screen) and click on ‘Contacts’.

Step 2. Once you have the page open, you need to click on the ‘Import’ option on the left-hand-side panel. It will ask you to select a file (.CSV / .VCF) to import contacts. Select the downloaded file and click on the ‘Import’ button to initiate the process.

iPhone Device

SIM to iPhone / Google Account

If you have got a new SIM and want to get contacts from your old SIM on your iPhone, you may follow these steps to get contacts from old SIM to your iPhone or Google contacts.

Step 1. Remove your new SIM card from iPhone and insert your old SIM card.

Step 2. Tap on ‘Settings’ -> and select ‘Contacts’ -> Tap on ‘Import SIM Contacts’.

Step 3. Select the account to be imported and let the import process be completed.

Step 4. Now you may remove old SIM and insert the new one back in your iPhone and check for the updated contacts. Imported contacts should be available in your default account (Gmail / iCloud). You may switch between accounts from below options.

Tap on ‘Settings’ -> and select ‘Contacts’ -> go to ‘Default Account’ and select your default account.

iCloud & Google Account Sharing

To export contacts from iCloud to a Google account, you can follow these steps.

Step 1. Log in to your iCloud account on a Laptop or a PC.

Step 2. Go to ‘Contacts’ and click on the ‘Settings’ icon on the bottom left corner.

Step 3. Click on Import vCard if you wish to get your Google account contacts to be imported on iCloud. Click on Export vCard if you wish to get your iCloud contacts to be imported on Google account. Both the options will ask you to browse the .VCF file and act accordingly.

Conclusion

So here we have covered how to import and export contacts from device to Google account & export contacts from SIM to sync contacts at one place. Now you need not worry about deleted contacts as you are aware of the options to backup contacts on Google account. You can anytime recover deleted contacts or from a lost phone as you already have a backup of contacts on your Google Contacts account.

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When using an email program, careful management of the address book has always been one of the most important tasks. If all of your important contact data is saved and readily at hand, sending private or professional messages is nothing more than a mere formality. In addition to the possibility of manually adding contacts, most email applications also come with a contact import function for this very reason. The import function is useful when integrating address data from a CSV document or from other email clients.

Gmail, Google’s email application, provides this type of extension. However, since 2018, importing contacts into Gmail is only possible by using the content manager app Google Contacts. We will show you how to use this function.

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Importing Gmail contacts: a summary of the most important steps

Users of Google services like Gmail and Google Workspace, for years, have managed their contacts via the “Contacts” program. Previously integrated into Gmail, the app is now available as an independent service. But since all contact information that has previously been saved in Google Contacts is transferred automatically to the entire Google account, including Gmail, this separation doesn’t pose a problem for importing Google contacts. Instead of using Gmail, you can now easily use the Contacts app for your import. Here is a summary of the basic steps involved:

1. Sign in with your Google account using your email (or phone number) and password.
2. Click on the button “Google apps” in the upper-right corner of the screen, next to the small profile picture for your account.
3. Click on the icon for the “Contacts” app.
4. Now click on the “Import” command in the left-hand side menu of the contact manager.
5. Click on “Select file” and select the location where the CSV document or vCard file with the contacts to be imported into Google Contacts or Gmail has been saved.
6. As soon as a file has been chosen, an “Import” command will appear. Select this to import the new Gmail contacts.

Importing Google contacts: step-by-step instructions (web version)

There are plenty of good reasons for wanting to import contacts into Gmail instead of manually adding them. For one, an import offers the simple possibility of integrating existing CSV lists of contact data – for example, from a client database – into Google’s mail client. For another, the function is popular when an address book from another email program needs to be transferred into Gmail. Thanks to the import function, you won’t have to manually enter and resave every single contact one-by-one.

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Finally, you can also use the function if you want to import a backup of your Google contacts. Whatever your reasons for wanting to import data into your Google contacts, it doesn’t change the individual steps in the process. Here’s what you need to do:

First, sign in to the Google account that contains the address book you wish to add new entries to. To do so, launch your Google account sign-in page and sign in with your personal account information.

From the homepage or the account menu, select the “Google Apps” button and then click the “Contacts” icon:

Once you have opened Google Contacts, click on the “Import” command found in the left-hand side menu of the contact software application. Click on “Select file” from the pop-up window:

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Now, choose the location of the saved file containing the contact data. This can either be a CSV or vCard format (.vcf). The former is the typical format for contact data originating from database management systems or from mail clients such as Outlook; the latter is a common output format from Apple programs. It doesn’t matter in which of these two formats your contact data file has been saved when importing contacts into Gmail, and there is nothing else you need to prepare. Simply double-click on the file name with your left mouse button (as soon as it is visible in your File Explorer) and then click on the “Import” command:

When your contacts have been imported into Gmail, a message will be shown at the bottom of the screen to confirm the successful import.

How to import Gmail contacts onto your mobile device (Android app)

If you use Gmail on your smartphone or tablet, you can integrate contact data just as easily and as described in the previous instructions by using the browser version of Google Contacts. However, when you install the Google Contacts app on your device, you will have a convenient alternative, since the app includes an integrated function for importing contacts. Here is how to use this function:

1. Download and install Google contacts from the Google Play Store. On some smartphones, the app will have been pre-installed.
2. Sign in to the app with your personal Google account or with the account to which contacts should be imported.
3. Click on the hamburger menu icon (three horizontal lines) to open the app’s main menu.
4. Click on the menu item “Settings”.
5. Scroll down to the section “Manage contacts” and click on “Import”.
6. Choose whether you would like to import contacts from a vCard file (.vcf) or from a used SIM card – other options, such as CSV, are not available in the Contacts app.
7. Finally, select the location where the data has been saved or choose the desired SIM card contacts, and then begin the import process.

If you want to import Gmail contacts, it makes no difference whether you are using the mobile app or the web browser application. The added data will be automatically synchronized so that it will not only be available in every version of Gmail but also across every single Google service that includes a Google Contacts integration feature.

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