How to Export iPhone Contacts and Sync iPhone Contacts to Gmail

by gpwebmedia
June 26 , 2024

Syncing iPhone contacts to Gmail helps you quickly recover your contacts when switching devices, or if your iPhone is damaged and cannot be restored. You just need to export the contacts from Gmail back to your iPhone. To back up data on your iPhone, or to back up your iPhone contacts, you can save the contacts to your iCloud account or to Gmail. The following article will guide you through the methods of exporting contacts on your iPhone.

Quick Guide

1. Syncing iPhone contacts to Gmail

Go to Settings, tap on Passwords & Accounts. Move to the new interface, tap on Add Account.
Tap on Google to add a Google account. Then log in to your Google account. Next, the sync to Gmail interface is displayed, activate the Contacts button and then press Save.
To start this sync process, users will return to the Passwords & Accounts interface. Then tap on Fetch New Data and turn on the Push option.

2. Exporting iPhone contacts to a computer

In the device interface, select Settings, tap on your Apple ID account name at the top, and select iCloud.
Next, in the iCloud list, scroll down and turn on Contacts.
Go to the iCloud homepage, and then log in to your iCloud account.
Move to the new interface, select Contacts.
Immediately after, you will see the interface with all the contacts on the device. Select the contacts you want to transfer to Gmail, or click on the gear icon and select Select All Contacts then choose Export vCard.

3. Transferring contacts from iPhone to Gmail

Log in to your personal Gmail account on a computer.
Open Gmail contacts by clicking on Contacts in the Google Apps list at the top right of the screen.
In the new interface that appears, on the left column, press More > Import.
Select Choose File to import the VCard Contacts file saved on your computer.
Finally, press Import to transfer the iPhone contacts to Gmail.

Detailed instructions

1. How to sync iPhone contacts to Gmail

Step 1: On the iPhone interface, first, go to Settings and then tap on Passwords & Accounts. Moving to the new interface, we press on Add Account.

add account

Step 2: At this point, users will see different accounts to add, we tap on Google to add a Google account. Then users will need to log into their Google account. Next, the sync to Gmail interface is displayed, activate the Contacts button and then press Save.

Google account

Step 3: Thus, your contacts have been synced to Gmail. To start this sync process, users will return to the Passwords & Accounts interface. Then tap on Fetch New Data and turn on the Push option.

Fetch New Data

Scroll down below, and you will see the option to automatically fetch data or adjust the timing you want. It's best to set it to automatic so that contacts automatically back up to Gmail.

back up to Gmail

2. How to export iPhone contacts to a computer

Step 1: In the device interface, we select Settings, tap on your Apple ID account name at the top, and then choose iCloud.

choose iCloud

Step 2: Next, in the iCloud list, scroll down and turn on Contacts.

Contacts

Step 3: Next, we go to the homepage of iCloud on the computer using the link below. Then log in to your iCloud account.

https://www.icloud.com/

iCloud account

After that, you need to enter the two-factor authentication code to continue.

two-factor authentication code

Step 4: Move to the new interface, we select Contacts.

Contacts

Step 5: Immediately after, we will see the interface with all the contacts on the device. You click on the contacts you want to transfer to Gmail, or click on the gear icon and select Select All Contacts then choose Export vCard.

The iCloud.vcf vCard file will be downloaded to your computer.

iCloud.vcf vCard

Now you have an iPhone contact file saved on your computer. You can use this file to transfer contacts to another iPhone, or import these contacts into a Gmail account if you wish.

3. How to transfer contacts from iPhone to Gmail

To transfer contacts from iPhone to Gmail, copy contacts from iPhone to Gmail, you perform the export steps as above, as Quantrimang.com has guided, then continue with the following operations:

Step 1: You log in to your personal Gmail account on a computer.

https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?flowEntry=ServiceLogin&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&ifkv=AS5LTATtkoPJOTJV2l3qCBlHls3aCPpEio4Y7GpPTfcFKG230b9KEBFQr_kMHDrd89LY1Ksz3J8Q2Q&dsh=S-1609667185%3A1719404628490341&ddm=0

Step 2: Open Gmail contacts by clicking on Contacts in the Google Apps list at the top right of the screen.

Contacts in the Google Apps