How to save Contacts to use on new Apple ID to share with family members

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How to save Contacts to use on new Apple ID to share with family members

I want to create a new Apple ID to share contacts calendars etc across 2 computers and 3 iPhones but can't find a way of copying saving or exporting the contacts file in a format that an be re-imported into the new OD Contacts file.

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 30, 2020 9:51 AM

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Siabh

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Aug 30, 2020 5:16 PM in response to richstrick

I understand that you want to transfer some 400 contacts from your Old Apple ID to a New Apple ID. We shall use iCloud.com to accomplish that. Follow these steps:

On your iPhone, with your old Apple ID (with the 400 contacts). Goto Settings > (Your Name - Apple ID) (the very first option) > iCloud and Toggle ON Contacts
On your laptop browser, goto www.icloud.com
Sign in using your old Apple ID
Select Contacts
On your keyboard, use Shift or Ctrl to select the contacts you want to transfer. (If you intend to export all contacts, click the gear icon and choose Select All). Then click the gear icon and choose Export vCard ... This will export the contacts from your iPhone to vCard, which will be saved as the .vcf file.
Sign out of iCloud.com
Again, repeat steps 2, 3, 4 but this time sign-in with your new Apple ID.
Click the gear icon and choose Import vCard ... Select the .vcf file you created in step 5. This will import all the contacts from your old Apple ID into your new one.
On your iPhone (iDevice) with the new Apple ID, repeat step 1. This will sync contacts from iCloud to your iPhone (iDevice).

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Aug 30, 2020 2:57 PM in response to Michael Black

Not at all helpful! What I'm trying to do is create a new joint Apple ID which both my wife and I can ascribe to and use on our desktop, laptop, phones and iPad. This is simple enough - the problem comes when trying to copy all our existing Contacts en bloc to this new ID in iCloud - rather than having to do them one by one (nearly 400 contacts)

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Aug 30, 2020 4:51 PM in response to richstrick

If you use a single AppleID with iCloud, you’re both sharing iCloud email, messages in iCloud, notes in iCloud, Cell phone and FaceTime call logs, and all other data and information tied to the AppleID. Is that what you want?

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richstrick Author

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Aug 31, 2020 3:36 AM in response to Siabh

Many thanks for your trouble to give detailed description of the process, which, unhappily I had tried several times. The problem is that the .vcf file is NOT created - or at least can't be found when I search for it. Any thoughts?

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Siabh

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Aug 31, 2020 4:06 AM in response to richstrick

Regardless of how many contacts you select, when you export - only a single .vcf file is created (with a default name of the first contact you had selected)

I would suggest you choose to save the .vcf file on your desktop, from where it shall be easy to locate.

What laptop are you using, btw?

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Aug 30, 2020 12:09 PM in response to richstrick

Family sharing does not include sharing contacts.

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richstrick Author

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Aug 31, 2020 3:25 AM in response to Michael Black

Yes - although the call logs etc. are not important and we also have separate emails when we want to keep things "private"

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richstrick Author

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Aug 31, 2020 4:27 AM in response to Siabh

Thank you - found one at last! -I was never I was never offered a choice of location to save them but only found them by using the .vcf extension as a find. Think I'm sorted now - thanks agin.

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Aug 31, 2020 5:11 PM in response to richstrick

I think now make something is true really

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