How to Transfer contacts from Android to iPhone as well as from iPhone to Android.

The first thing that everyone of us do when we have a new smartphone is to import our new contacts from our old phone to new one. You have a new smartphone but don’t know how to transfer contacts from one OS to another? This will guide you how to transfer contacts from an iPhone to an Android as well as from an Android to  an iPhone. Just follow these simple steps and you’ll be able to get the contacts from your device in no time.

Transfer from Android to iPhone…

Go to Settings on your Android phone and choose "Accounts and Sync" or similar. Enter your GMail account details and enable synchronisation. This will sync your phone contacts and Google Contacts.

Then go to your new iPhone. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and add your Gmail account. Make sure Contacts are enabled for the account. You should now find that all of your Google contacts are in your iPhone.

On your Apple…

1.   Open the Settings application on your iPhone.

2.  Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

3.  Select Add Account...

4.  Select Other

5.   Select Add CardDAV Account

6.  Fill out your account information in the following fields:

7.   Server: Enter "google.com"

8.  User Name: Enter your full Google Account or Google Apps email address.

9.  Password: Your Google Account or Google Apps password. (If you’ve enabled 2 Step verification, you’ll need to generate and enter an application specific password.)

10.               Description: Enter a description of the account (e.g. Personal Contacts).

11.Select Next at the top of your screen.

12.               Make sure that the "Contacts" option is turned to ON.

After you've completed setup, open the Contacts app on your device, and syncing will automatically begin on your iPhone and Google.

Transfer from iPhone to Android…

The task of transferring contacts between iOS and a non-iOS devices has been made a bit tedious by Apple since they removed the feature in iTunes that made you able to sync your contacts with your Google account which was quite easy. But that feature has been removed and the newer version of the iTunes no longer support that feature.

You can however do that same using Apple’s iCloud service. Syncing your contacts to iCloud, you can then export your contacts into vCard files (VCF) which can then be imported into your Google account. Follow these steps:

1.      Login into your iCloud account on your iPhone by going into Settings > iCloud.

2.    Enable “Contacts“. Doing this will sync your iPhone’s contacts to your iCloud account. (Make sure you have good internet connectivity when doing this)

Your contacts have now been uploaded to your iCloud account. You now need to create vCad files (VCF) of these contacts and export these VCFs to your Google Account. To do this, follow these steps:

1.      Open the web browser of your choice on your desktop or laptop computer and type in “https://www.icloud.com/“.

2.    Sign into your iCloud account, the same one which you used on your iPhone.

3.    Click contacts and you will see all the contacts that you synced earlier.

4.    Select all the contacts you want to export to your Google account.

5.     Click on the “Action Menu” button on the bottom-left corner of the screen that looks like a gear wheel and select the “Export vCard” option from the menu that appears.

6.    You will see a VCF file being downloaded that will contain all your contacts.

7.     Now go to the address bar and sign into “www.google.com/contacts” using your Google account.

8.    In the left pane, scroll down and click on the “Import Contacts” window as shown below.

9.    A small window will pop up where you will have to drop the VCF file that was earlier downloaded from the iCloud window.

10. Click on “Import” following which your Google will automatically sync the contacts on your Android smartphone.