How can I put contacts ONTO my SIM?

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How can I put contacts ONTO my SIM?

I have just bought an IPhone. I have a bluetooth integrated system in my Audi S4. This reads numbers off the SIM card of my existing phone and displays them on the dash of the car. So what I need to do is put some selected numbers onto the SIM of the IPhone. Any ideas very welcome. Thanks

MacBookPro & IPhone, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 30, 2008 6:06 AM

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Randy Fast

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Jan 30, 2008 6:16 AM in response to Phil Wade

Sorry to say but from everything I have found the iphone does not store anything on the sim card nor could I find out how to get it to write things too the sim card.

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Tamara

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Jan 30, 2008 6:29 AM in response to Phil Wade

The sim on the iPhone is not setup to store information. You can send feedback to Apple here - http://apple.com/feedback.

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Jan 30, 2008 6:36 AM in response to Tamara

It's not the SIM card that is the issue. Apple has not provided the feature to backup contacts to the SIM card internal memory chip. This feature is widely available on other data devices as well regular cellphones. I believe Apple didn't add this feature due to iTunes performs a backup of the iPhone contact list.

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Phil Wade Author

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Jan 30, 2008 7:49 AM in response to Randy Fast

Thanks for your input. I have had a thought. Is there any reason why i cant buy a SIM card reader / writer and manually put contact info on the SIM then put it back in the IPhone? Thoughts anyone?

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Randy Fast

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Jan 30, 2008 8:11 AM in response to Phil Wade

I don't think that will work either Phil Wade because the problem is the iphone doesn't read anything off the sim card other than your network info to keep you on the network. I have put the sim card in another phone and stored contacts on it, so that when I switch phones my contacts will move with the card. But I haven't been able to get any bluetooth devices that read contacts off the sim card to see them while in the iphone.

You should submit feedback to apple about this. It is lame that the iphone doesn't even use the sim card really.

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Jan 30, 2008 3:53 PM in response to Phil Wade

The iPhone itself does not use the SIM to store contacts, also because the Bluetooth support of the iPhone is so poor you can't access the SIM that way either.

What you can do is sync the iPhone to Apple Addressbook (or Outlook), and then put the SIM in an 'ordinary' mobile phone, and then transfer the contacts to that ordinary phone which will store them on the SIM. I used a Razr and Bluetooth to do this but pretty much any model of phone will work.

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Phil Wade Author

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Jan 31, 2008 1:00 AM in response to John Lockwood

Thanks to all of you for your help. I will try putting contacts on the SIM via another phone and see if my Audi bluetooth can see them. Watch this space and I will let you know. Cheers.

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Jan 31, 2008 3:58 AM in response to Phil Wade

Phil Wade wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your help. I will try putting contacts on the SIM via another phone and see if my Audi bluetooth can see them. Watch this space and I will let you know. Cheers.

Your Audi will not see any SIM stored contacts via Bluetooth to the iPhone. It may download the iPhone's addressbook (this works on my Bosses BMW 5 series at least). I copied (some) contacts to the SIM, because in my car, I actually take the SIM out of the iPhone and insert it in to a carphone system (and it can then read the contacts off the SIM).

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