Transferring contacts to a new phone can be done in several ways, depending on the type of phones involved and your preferences for using apps or manual methods. Below are some common methods discussed across various forums.
Using Google Account Sync
One of the simplest ways to transfer contacts is by syncing them with your Google account. If you save your contacts to your Google account, they will automatically sync to any new device when you sign in [1:1]. This method is particularly useful if you're moving from one Android device to another.
Bluetooth Transfer
Bluetooth is another straightforward method for transferring contacts. You can pair both devices via Bluetooth and send the contact list over. This method doesn't require an internet connection or additional apps [1:2],
[3:1].
Transfer Apps
There are dedicated apps designed to facilitate the transfer of contacts and other data between phones. For instance, Tracfone's Transfer Wizard app can move contacts, text messages, and more [1:1]. Samsung users can use the Smart Switch app, which works well for transferring data between Samsung devices and possibly other brands
[2:2],
[2:5].
SIM Card Method
For those switching from Android to iPhone, transferring contacts via SIM card is an option. Export your contacts to the SIM card on your old device, then import them on your new iPhone [5:1]. Note that this method may not be suitable for large numbers of contacts due to storage limitations.
Custom Apps
Some users have developed custom apps to simplify the process, although these might not offer significant advantages over existing solutions like Bluetooth [4:3].
Considerations for Chat History
If you're also interested in transferring chat history, note that moving chat data between different operating systems (e.g., Android to iPhone) is often not supported [5:2],
[5:3]. Always check the specific messaging app's support for cross-platform transfers.
In summary, the best method depends on your specific situation—whether you're staying within the same ecosystem, the number of contacts, and whether you prefer using apps or manual methods.
Ive been with tracfone for many years and I am currently upgrading my phone. Any know how I could transfer all my contact without having to manually just re-enter them? TIA!
What I do is keep my contacts updated in my Gmail account on my computer, and then they sync to my phone automatically when I sign in on the phone to the Gmail account.
There may be other ways to transfer the contacts, I think there is a Transfer Wizard app that you can use. Just load it on both phones and they will find each other on wifi and you can decide what to transfer from one phone to the other.
Thank you so much - immensely helpful!
If those does not work, lots of phones that I have seen can transfer contacts via bluetooth.
The above info is all good. Even if you don't use Gmail just make sure your contacts are saved to your Google account and they will automatically transfer. The Tracfone transfer wizard works surprisingly well to transfer text messages, music, photos, etc. from one phone to the other.
You are very welcome. Hope this helps. Enjoy your new phone.
Thank you everyone - I got everything switched over just fine!
Me compré un celular nuevo y necesito pasar toda la información anterior al actual, también estar segura de borrar todo xq lo quiero vender y necesito que no pueda recuperar la información, xq tengo mucho material privado en el mismo. O sea una forma que sea fácil y segura.
Hay una app llamada smart swith, yo utilicé esa. Muy buena me pasó todos los archivos multimedia con la misma fecha del archivo, llamadas, sms. En media hora hizo todo. Lo que sí no me transfirió y más me molestó fueron los chats de whatsapp pero igualmente la app avisa que no transfiere TODO. Tendré que buscar otra forma de hacerlo, si alguien sabe, avise.
Aclaración: el celular viejo y el nuevo tienen que tener descargada la app
Si es samsung en ambos caso tenes una app. Es bastante buena. Eso si hacele una backup al whatsapp porque eso fue lo unico que no paso
Ah y en cuanto borrar todo, creo que la opción "formatear de fábrica" o "factory settings" que tienen los celulares, como la palabra indica, dejan todo tal cual estaba cuando el teléfono era nuevo aunque no estoy seguro si borra todo 100%
Si los dos son Samsung = Smart Switch
Si los dos son Xiaomi = Mi Mudanza
Aunque es posible que Smart Switch funcione con otras marcas, ejemplo Samsung y Motorola.
si son android encendé el nuevo y segui los pasos en pantalla, en un momento te los va a hacer conectar con el cable del cargador (si es usb c a usb c) y pasa los datos, sino podes hacerlo por BT en ese momento. Después puede haber cosas particulares de apps como el whatsapp hace un backup antes de empezar para que después baje al tel nuevo todos los chats. Tenes un motón de videos paso a paso en YT.
Few months ago I made a post asking how to transfer contacts from a Bold 9780 to a Key2 LE. I’ve been stalling changing over since as I never understood how to move my contacts over with doing one by one (and I still love my BOLD!). I never understood the responses as I’m crap with stuff like that. Even asked a very computer literate friend to help, but he couldn’t either. Then I found this video on how do to with Bluetooth and it worked! Literally in a few seconds all was done! So just thought I’d share incase helpful to anyone else. Really was that easy! Ps: Tomorrow is a NY, and tomorrow I make the switch over!! ✌️
I’m such a donut!! I forgot to include the link!!! Hope this helps someone
Transfering contacts from one phone to an other seems overly complicated. Even though most Android phones support this out of the box, they require you to create or sign in an internet account that you might not want to use or share your data with. Other solutions include complicated steps such as sharing pairing codes between phones or needing a computer to share the contacts to.
That seems like something that can be greatly simplified, so I decided to create an more streamlined app that does just that.
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Your contacts data is read only so that it can be transfered between the two devices and it is not shared to anyone else. No private data is shared with any third parties and some anonymous data is collected to improve the app (in order to know whether something has stopped working for example).
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My phone's have done that automatically for the last 6-8 years. It's all part of the backup transfer that is initiated when you are setting up the new phone. It either transfers over local wifi, or Bluetooth.
I'm sorry but your app isn't needed for me if it's just contact I can send them via Bluetooth it's not that complicated + it doesn't need you to install an app on both devices just for that if it could transfer other things like pics vids sms and contact then I'd give it a try but rn it's kinda useless
It is true that the app will be more useful to those less tech savvy than those knowing how to use bluetooth. Thank you for your comment and feedback.
Doesn't sync happens when you change the Device ? Still the app looks clean and way easy to use.
Thank you for trying out the app.
It does indeed happen when you first start the device. If you need to transfer the contacts after that though, you would need to factory reset the device again, starting from scratch again.
Used NQW1BBW25VRRC3SRV6KG1NA thanks Dev
Thank you for trying out the app
Hello, good day to everyone. I will change my cell phone, I will go from an Android to an iPhone. Is it possible to transfer my contacts and chat history? And if so... how do I do it? Can someone help me with that please. (:
You can‘t (currently). You can transfer from Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone but only if you have both phones
You can export your chat on Android however
Even if I still have my same phone number, isn't there something that can be done?
If you use a PIN on your signal account, your contacts will transfer when you register it on your new phone as long as you use your PIN. You can't transfer your chat history from android to iphone though.
If you have the same phone number, the easiest way to transfer contacts from an Android to an iPhone is using a SIM Card as below:
On your Android Device: Open the Contacts app, tap on the three dots or "More" option, select "Settings" or "Manage contacts", choose "Export" and save the contacts to the SIM card.
On your iPhone: Insert the SIM card into your iPhone. Go to Settings > Contacts, and tap "Import SIM Contacts".
This method is suitable for a smaller number of contacts, as SIM cards may have limited storage. If you have a large number of contacts, you can use a Google account, iCloud, SHAREit, or Coolmuster Mobile Transfer, which can help you transfer contacts from an Android to an iPhone. Hope this will be your help.
I just received my replacement phone today (OnePlus 6), and am so far mostly satisfied. However, I can't use their OnePlus Switch program to transfer contacts as my previous phone's screen (Galaxy S6) doesn't turn on at all.
Is there any way to transfer the contacts from my old phone in this situation?
Normally on my Android phone, the contacts synced to Google and then back to new phone once I added my account. I thought Samsung had a similar thing, if you used a Samsung account. I doubt you could find them or even have access to the location if you connected your old phone to a PC via a data cable. Usually Android phones walk you through syncing options to Google. I guess it might help to know how you had your contacts and email synced on your Samsung?
I should have, on either Google or Android. I just don't see how to import from there on my new phone
It should automatically sync them to your new phone if you added your google account and have data. There might be more than one contacts app, you would need to use the Google one in order to see your synced contacts, maybe that's why you don't see them ??? You can also verify by logging into Gmail in a web browser and going to contacts , if they are there they will sync to your new phone.
So I have an iPhone 13 Pro and my contacts are saved to google contacts as I cannot save to sim, but I’m wondering how to send them to my Nokia 8210 without manually adding them one by one? How do you guys do it? What’s the best workflow for mass importing contacts when you may have hundreds? Loving the switch btw, just want to figure out this last step and I’ll say goodbye to my smartphone 🙏😊
I think you can try to export all contacts to a .vcs file and then transfer this file via bluetooth to the Nokia 8210. Then try to open this file in the phone and maybe it is able to import all contacts.
Go to contacts.google.com and export as vCard, then rename that file to contacts.vcf and put it in the vCard folder on the phone itself (plug it into a computer)
Import them to your pc, than use nokia suite to upload them to your nokia - don't know the iphone's extension type for contacts, nokia usually is vcs (VCard) or csv
I'm not sure if the older Nokia PC suite even works with these S30+ phones, as these aren't true Nokia phones anymore. They're made by HMD with Unisoc chipset.
don't know too, but there should be a way to do it does it has the option copy contact list via bluetooth? don't know if iphones do that, I know androids do it easily
I am considering memorising all numbers instead of saving contacts on my dumbphone
Either you have phenomenal memory or very few contacts, that is not a solution for other people
This is actually how things were before cell phones. Almost everyone i knew knew their numbers in their head. It wasnt hard, because a person dialled it each time they wanted to call someone. No special effort was required. Nobody i knew carried a phone book or anything. This was a normal thing.
Then when cellphones became more common place and people started storing numbers on the phone it became a thing where people would comment on how they used to know everyones numbers but now cant. Use it or lose it. Your memory is like that. You dont have to be superhuman or be gifted to remember a bunch of numbers, or to learn them after hearing them just once.
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Hello. We recently bought a jitterbug phone for my FIL an my husband was unable to transfer the contacts from his android to the new phone. He spent at least an hour with the support line only to be told that he had to make an appointment at Best Buy to get help. For those who have had success transferring data please tell us how you did it.
Didn't look closely and don't know what that is, but is this what you're looking for?
Sorry if I'm being ignorant, this just came up on a Google search.
Thank you
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So I’m setting up my grandmas new phone. I signed into the phone with her email expecting all her apps and passwords and contacts to be on her new phone. But even after waiting for a few hours it’s still not on her new device.
She really needs her contacts. I used Bluetooth to send over about 1400 .vcf files from her old phone to her new phone. But the contacts app doesn’t show all these contacts. So is there anyway to make the contacts app index all these .vcf files so that all these contacts will show up in the contacts app? If I tap on the .vcf files it’ll show up in the contacts app but I really don’t feel like tapping on 1400 files.
UPDATE: Used the app xender to send all the contacts over a local WiFi network. It was a bit convoluted but it worked
If her previous phone is an Android device make sure it's signed into her Google account, the same account which should be used on the new phone.
They’re both on the same google account and yet no luck and sync is enabled as well
Ok, try going to https://contacts.google.com on the new phone; on the left menu there's an option to "Import". Alternatively, go to the same site on the old phone and "Export" instead.
Why not sync all her contacts to her Google account on her old phone? That way they'll show up on her new phone.
Sync is enabled on both devices
So on my phone, Ive got the Google Contacts app (which can be found on the play store), it gives me the option to select all contacts and then "move to another account." So try that if you havent
What's her old phone? Some phones have a separate 'phone only' storage that does not sync to Google.
You need to import it to Google. Also simply sending the vcf files to another phone doesn't put it in the contacts list. You still have to import it into the contacts app. So either you use the built in export tool to export all 1400 contacts into one file, or import each of the 1400 vcf files you made one by one on her new phone.
She has an old LG K7
But I just used xender to send it over a WiFi network. So I guess that ends well. But I feel like that’s on oversight if you receive a bunch of files it should give you an option to open it in an app.
Because for some reason you decided to use a third party app. And if you had tapped the notification it would open the sent files automatically in the correct app. Basically just go to the new phone's downloads folder and open each of those files one at a time.
Or on the old phone there should be a setting inside the contacts app for export import, export it to storage, then import it to Google, and you're done.
Transfer her contacts to her SIN card, then put the SIM card in the new phone and choose "import all".
how to transfer contacts to a new phone
Here are some key methods to transfer contacts to a new phone:
Using Google Account (Android):
Using iCloud (iPhone):
Using Bluetooth:
Using a SIM Card:
Using Third-Party Apps:
Recommendation: The Google Account method is the most efficient for Android users, while iCloud is best for iPhone users. If you're switching between different operating systems, using a third-party app may be the easiest way to ensure all contacts are transferred without hassle. Always ensure you have a backup of your contacts before starting the transfer process.
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