iPhone now becomes an important tool for people to communicate each other, and with the booming of various social media like Facebook and WhatsApp, contact lists play a significant role in adding friends. Besides phone number, a contact list now contains more information like birthday, company, email, address, social media account, etc. Those information are very important, and once you lose them, it will be very difficult to collect them back together. Therefore it is necessary to back them up in advance. This post lists several ways for you to back up contacts on iPhone without iTunes.
Directly from iPhone:
If you sync iPhone with iTunes regularly, then you will have backup files on computer, but you will need outside help to view contacts details from the iTunes backup, and here is a ways to extract contacts from backup via the Gihosoft iPhone tool.
1. Contact App in Mac
If you’re using Mac, it will be very easy for you to export contacts from iPhone to Mac. Simple open the Contacts App on Mac, and follow these steps to export contacts as vCard files.- Step 1: Open Contacts and select those you want to back up.
- Step 2: Click File > Export > Export vCard.
- Step 3: Name the vCard file and save it to Mac.
2. iCloud.com
If you’ve set up Contacts backup in Settings >(after iOS 9)Apple ID > iCloud, then you can go iCloud.com to view all your contacts directly. Also you can download them to computer as vCard file from iCloud with steps below. Make sure you’ve synced iPhone with iCloud before following this guide. (Settings > iCloud > iCloud Backup > Back Up Now)- Step 1: Go iCloud.com and sign in iCloud.com with Apple ID, then click on Contacts.
- Step 2: Click the bottom left “Show Action Menu”, and choose “Export vCard” or “Print”.
3. Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery
Besides contact recovery, Gihosoft iPhone Recovery tool can also be used as a means of data backup. And here are three ways to backup contacts via the iPhone Recovery software.Directly from iPhone:
- Step 1: Select “Contacts” shown in the interface.
- Step 2: Connect iPhone to computer to scan for contacts.
- Step 3: Preview and export contacts as readable format (CSV, HTML, TXT, vCard) to computer.
If you sync iPhone with iTunes regularly, then you will have backup files on computer, but you will need outside help to view contacts details from the iTunes backup, and here is a ways to extract contacts from backup via the Gihosoft iPhone tool.
- Step 1: Make sure you have a backup on computer and run the iPhone Recovery software.
- Step 2: Select “Contacts” and click on “View iTunes Backup” to scan.
- Step 3: Preview the scanning result and export contacts to computer.
From iCloud Backup:
Gihosoft also provides a way for users to extract contacts from iCloud Backup.
- Step 1: Run the Gihosoft iPhone software and choose “View iCloud Backup”.
- Step 2: Sign in with Apple ID and select a backup to scan after downloading.
- Step 3: Preview contacts after scanning and transfer them to computer.
Download: https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-data-recovery-free.html
Recover iPhone contacts without backup: https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-recovery/recover-lost-contacts-iphone-ipad-without-backup.html
Recover iPhone contacts without backup: https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-recovery/recover-lost-contacts-iphone-ipad-without-backup.html
4. iPhone Exchange ActiveSync
The Mail App on iPhone also have a function of contact backup, which supported by Exchange ActiveSync in the Mail. You just need to set an Exchange account with a email address, and then you can sync contacts to Exchange.
Read more on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201729.
5. Other third party software & services
Besides the above-mentioned, there are a slew of other third party software and services for you to back up contacts in case of loss. You can search on Internet and get lots of results easily like Google Drive, Verizon Cloud, etc.
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- Also, the above-mentioned methods can be used to transfer contacts from iPhone to computer or other places.
- If you accidentally lost important contacts, you can try to recover lost contacts from iPhone without backup.
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