You can use Contact Transfer to move your phone contacts over to your PC. Contact Transfer is a powerful contact manager also allowing you to add, edit and delete contacts, copy them to your PC, as well as straight to Windows Contacts or as vCard files to a different folder. This guide also provides info on how to transfer contacts from your iOS Device to your PC!
Step 1 – Select the source and destination of the contacts to transfer.
When you download and install Contact Transfer, you will be introduced to the page below. Here, you can select your Source and Destination for your contacts to be transferred to. For the source, you will need to select iOS Device and for the destination, select This PC. Click Continue when this is done.
Step 2 – Connect each of your devices to proceed.
Now you need to connect your iOS Device to Contact Transfer, using a USB Connection.
Once connected, your Source should be named on Contact Transfer desktop app. You can select how you would like to save your contacts within your PC from the right-hand side – you can select either Windows Contacts or vCard files to your PC, then press Continue.
Step 3 – Select the contacts that you wish to transfer from the source to the destination.
Now you should see your contacts from your device on the left-hand side – you can select the check boxes to select individual contacts, or you can select all of your contacts by checking the All check box. If you have many contacts saved, you can also type and search for contacts.
Once you have done this, click the Transfer button.
Transferring to Windows Contacts
When your contacts are selected to transfer, just click Transfer and your contacts will start to transfer to your PC.
Transferring as vCard files
When transferring as vCards, you can choose the destination of where you would like to save your contacts to. By clicking the Change button, you can choose folder where you would like to save these to, or create a new folder.
Once you have chosen your destination, click Transfer, and your contacts will start to transfer to your PC.
Step 4 – Transferring your Contacts
Contact Transfer will begin copying your Contacts to your chosen location. This should not take long at all, you should be sent directly onto Step 5.
Step 5 – Transfer Complete & Finding Contacts
You will see a message saying, ‘Transfer Complete’, and now it’s time to find your transferred contacts. This is different depending on how you saved your contacts.
Finding Windows Contacts
Recently, Windows has integrated its contacts within the Mail app. To find this, Open Mail, then on the left-hand side menu, you should see a 2-person icon. This is People. Once opened, you can pin this application to taskbar for easier accessibility.
When People is opened, you should see the contacts you have transferred within the People desktop app as shown below.
Finding vCard files
Open File Explorer and find the Destination you selected in Step 3 and open the folder. You should find your contacts here under the name they are saved as in your Device.
Once you have found these contacts, select one to open it in Outlook by default. Alternatively, you can right-click on one of these contacts, then select Open With to discover which apps you can open this contact with.
