Today we will see how to transfer all my contacts from iCloud to iCloud or Gmail from PC. iCloud accounts are used to save all the information on your device and help you recover a deleted file from iCloud.
In order to transfer your contacts from one iCloud account to another or even send them to other platforms such as Google, you must first have backed up your contacts from your iPhone device.
How to save my contacts in iCloud step by step
Take your iPhone mobile device and go to Settings. The next thing will be to slide down the options to iCloud and enter that section.
Next, you will see in the first section of iCloud, your account. In case you don’t have it yet, you will have to create a free iCloud email account.
Below, in the options in this section, you can see a list of all the applications that you have available on your device and that you can synchronize with iCloud to create a backup copy.
In this case, as we are interested in saving the contacts in the cloud, we are going to press on the Contacts switch and we are going to slide it to the right of the screen so that it is green.
Then you must scroll to the bottom of the list to Storage and Backup. On the next screen, click on Manage Storage to customize the contact data that we want to save.
Inside there, go to iPhone. You can customize which contact data you want to save, we recommend that you deactivate the camera option, as it takes up too much space.
Once you have customized this section, go back to the previous menu and now perform the Backup of your device from the Back up now option. Make sure you have the iCloud Backup switch active so that your contacts are saved to that account.
In this way, we will have activated the synchronization of contacts or backup. Now you can access your contacts from any Apple device or from the browser by logging in with your iCloud account.
How to transfer my contacts from iCloud to iCloud or Gmail from PC
In order to transfer all my contacts from iCloud to iCloud or Gmail, you must do it from a PC. Regardless of whether you have a computer with a Windows, macOS or Linux operating system, we will do it from the browser.
As we mentioned before, from the browser, go to the iCloud website and log in.
Once inside your account, enter the Contacts device from the main screen. You will see a list of all the contacts that you have synchronized in this account.
From the left menu in the lower-left corner of the screen, click Settings. A small drop-down menu will open and from there we will position ourselves on Export vCard.
Now we only have to select the contacts that we want to export. In case you want to select all you can press Ctrl + A or Select all. Then we are going to click Export vCard again from the settings.
Now all the contacts will be stored in a file on your computer. To move them to a new iCloud account, sign in from your computer.
In the new account, enter the contacts section and click on the settings icon as we did previously. This time, we will select the Import vCard option.
A box will open so you can browse for the file you downloaded earlier. When you’ve found its location, select it and click Choose.
Wait for the process to finish and you will have your contacts in another iCloud account.
To import contacts from Gmail, enter your Google from your browser. Type in the search bar contacts.
On the left side of the screen, we must choose Import contacts, find the location of the file that we downloaded previously, select it and wait for the process to finish. That simple you can transfer your iCloud contacts to iCloud or Gmail from PC in a few steps.
In case you have been confused by the term vcard, then you should look for how to pass or convert phone contacts to a vcard file? to complement your information.