Several Ways to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Computer

The Contacts app on iPhone contains your entire address book, including phone numbers, email addresses, and more. If you accidentally lose important contacts due to mistaken deletion, iOS upgrade iPhone lost, damaged or stolen, it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble. Many users wonder how to transfer contacts from iPhone to computer without iTunes. After all, contacts are one of the most important data in a smartphone, and transferring iPhone contacts to a computer is an effective way to back up data in case you lose contacts on iPhone so that you can transfer them to iPhone again when you need them.

When it comes to transferring the address book on the iPhone to the computer, you may collect many solutions, such as syncing iTunes and iCloud. However, due to the limitations of using iTunes to synchronize contacts data, many people are confused about how to transfer data safely without losing the original data. Read on and follow this post to know the effective way to copy contacts from iPhone to computer without iTunes。

How to Export iPhone Contacts to Computer with iPhone Data Transfer

iPhone Data Transfer app is a professional iPhone, iPad, iPod data manager for you to export various types of data from iPhone/iPad/iPod to computer, and you can also import data to iOS devices. Besides contacts, iPhone Data Transfer also supports transferring other types of iPhone data like photos, music, videos, text messages, notes, voice memos, etc.

Step 1. After downloading and installing iPhone Data Transfer app on your computer, launch it and connect iPhone to computer via USB cable, press "Trust" on iPhone screen to left iPhone trust this computer, then the software will detect iPhone and show iPhone interface on the windows.

Step 2. There are many data type on left panel, such as photos, videos, contacts, text messages, music and others, tap "Contacts" and you will see all iPhone contacts on the screen, tick the checkbox under contacts you need and click "Export" > "Export to PC", choose target folder to save all selected contacts to PC for use.

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How to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Computer with iCloud

iCloud supports exporting iPhone contacts from iPhone to computer in vcf format. Now follow the steps below to learn how to transfer contacts from iPhone to computer using iCloud:

step 1. Find the Settings app on your iPhone> tap your Apple ID name> tap iCloud> open the address book option.

Step 2. Open the official iCloud homepage on your computer's browser> log in with your Apple ID account> click the Contact button.

Step 3. Click the settings icon in the lower left corner> click "Select All"> select the "Export vCard" button to export iPhone contacts to your computer.

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iPhone Data Recovery: Transfer iPhone Contacts to Computer in 3 ways

iPhone Data Recovery - the professional iOS data manage tool gives you 3 choices when it comes to transferring contacts from iPhone to computer. iPhone Data Recovery enables you to transfer contacts from iPhone to computer directly, export iPhone contacts from iTunes backup and iCloud backup on computer.

If you are scanning and transferring contacts from iPhone to computer, you can move them to computer selectively or at one time, including existing data and deleted data in the phone. If you have backed up the contacts that need to be transferred to your computer to iTunes or iCloud, you can use iPhone Data Recovery to export the backup data to your computer. Unlike synchronization, using iPhone data recovery to export the backup data will not overwrite or lose the original data in the device, which can ensure the safety of your data.

If you want to know how to transfer contacts from iPhone to your computer with iPhone Data Recovery app in 3 ways, read the below solution.

Step 1. Run the iPhone data recovery software on computer after you install it, tap "iPhone Data Recovery" feature on the homepage.

To transfer iPhone contacts to computer directly, you can tap "Recover from iOS Device" mode, link your iPhone to the software with a usb cable, tap "Trust" on iPhone screen and the software will detect iPhone, click "Start Scan" button to scan iPhone storage.

To extract iTunes contacts to computer, switch to "Recover from iTunes Backup", all iTunes backup will list in order on the windows, choose one backup you need and click "Start Scan" to extract it.

To extract iCloud backup to PC, you can tap "Recover from iCloud Backup" mode, enter Apple ID and password to login iCloud account, then click "iCloud Backup" option, all iCloud backup will list in the screen, choose one backup and click "Download" to get it to PC, then click same button to extract it.

Step 2. The software will spend some time to scan iPhone or extract backup files, click "Contacts" data type on left sidebar and preview existing and deleted contacts on scan result, mark all contacts you need and click "Recover" button to transfer them to computer.

Notes: The iPhone data recovery tool also provides you another feature to back up iPhone contacts to computer for free, choose "iOS Data Backup & Restore" > "iOS Data Backup" and choose contacts to backup.