How to move contacts from Yahoo to iCloud?

Somehow, and I don't know how, I ended up with a list called Yahoo, I don't want that list, but I do want the contacts in that list.


It's slow and tedious, but I learned how to move/copy a contact from the Yahoo list to "All iCloud". The problem is, after I "move it" it still remains in the Yahoo list. I want this list to get smaller and eventually go away. If I manually delete the contact from the Yahoo list, it goes away everywhere. My goal here is to get things out of Yahoo and into "All iCloud".


Advice appreciated.



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Posted on May 9, 2025 12:18 PM

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Posted on May 10, 2025 1:35 PM

I found the answer, I thought I would report back in case others trip over this thread. My answers were found with DuckDuckGo's Artificial Intelligence.


Very simplified steps,

1) Log into your Yahoo account and find your Contacts, there is an option to export your Contacts as a csv file. Export the file and remember where it is. (Mac Download folder, probably.)


2) Go to the problem iPhone, I have two iPhones, the problem was only on one of them. Go to Settings, Contacts and turn off synchronization with Yahoo. This will DELETE your Yahoo contacts from the iPhone, but will have no effect on the Contacts that still exist with Yahoo, they just won't be synchronized anymore. (This will also delete the Yahoo "List" on the iPhone Contacts, which was my goal all along. )


3) Import the csv file into All iCloud Contacts, ( I did this on my Mac Studio. ) Now, all of the Contacts that I have are in one place only, and that is iCloud.


Note: The procedure that I found mentioned that not all Contacts might be imported from the csv file, and you may have to copy some manually. So far, I have not encountered that glitch.


For people that are more clever with technology, it looks like you can synchronize different email services in Apple Contacts. I don't want that level of sophistication. It's extremely rare for me to use Yahoo. It's a throwaway email address when someone insists on having one, when they don't actually need it.

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May 10, 2025 1:35 PM in response to Ziatron

I found the answer, I thought I would report back in case others trip over this thread. My answers were found with DuckDuckGo's Artificial Intelligence.


Very simplified steps,

1) Log into your Yahoo account and find your Contacts, there is an option to export your Contacts as a csv file. Export the file and remember where it is. (Mac Download folder, probably.)


2) Go to the problem iPhone, I have two iPhones, the problem was only on one of them. Go to Settings, Contacts and turn off synchronization with Yahoo. This will DELETE your Yahoo contacts from the iPhone, but will have no effect on the Contacts that still exist with Yahoo, they just won't be synchronized anymore. (This will also delete the Yahoo "List" on the iPhone Contacts, which was my goal all along. )


3) Import the csv file into All iCloud Contacts, ( I did this on my Mac Studio. ) Now, all of the Contacts that I have are in one place only, and that is iCloud.


Note: The procedure that I found mentioned that not all Contacts might be imported from the csv file, and you may have to copy some manually. So far, I have not encountered that glitch.


For people that are more clever with technology, it looks like you can synchronize different email services in Apple Contacts. I don't want that level of sophistication. It's extremely rare for me to use Yahoo. It's a throwaway email address when someone insists on having one, when they don't actually need it.

May 9, 2025 1:51 PM in response to Ziatron

Ziatron wrote:

It may have been some mistake made a long time ago. I'm not using Yahoo. I don't want any contacts associated with Yahoo. I am just trying to move those contacts from that list to "All iCloud", and then delete the list called Yahoo entirely.

I can see how to export these contacts from Yahoo into iCloud. But I am trying to completely get rid of the Yahoo list on my iPhone. Maybe the only way to do this is through Yahoo. I haven't used any of that in a long time.

The real problem is that even when I copy the contact over to iCloud if I delete it from Yahoo, it deletes it EVERYWHERE.

I've already established that you're syncing with Yahoo.

Your next step is to contact Yahoo support, look at their help forum or google search on how to export those contacts to iclouid

May 9, 2025 12:59 PM in response to Ziatron

Ziatron wrote:

Somehow, and I don't know how, I ended up with a list called Yahoo, I don't want that list, but I do want the contacts in that list.

It's slow and tedious, but I learned how to move/copy a contact from the Yahoo list to "All iCloud". The problem is, after I "move it" it still remains in the Yahoo list. I want this list to get smaller and eventually go away. If I manually delete the contact from the Yahoo list, it goes away everywhere. My goal here is to get things out of Yahoo and into "All iCloud".

Advice appreciated.

That mean your syncing those contacts with your Yahoo account.

You can ask their support, look at their website or do a google search on how to export contacts from yahoo to icloud.

May 9, 2025 1:18 PM in response to Ziatron

Ziatron wrote:

I don't really use Yahoo. I don't want sync ANY of my contacts with Yahoo. I'm just trying to get the contacts in that list into "All iCloud". Then delete that list entirely. View Yahoo has just a name, nothing else.

Sorry you wouldn't have a contact list if you didn't sync them with Yahoo.

If you ever used Yahoo mail account you probably in the past sync your contacts with yahoo.

Again follow my original response.

May 9, 2025 1:47 PM in response to razmee209

It may have been some mistake made a long time ago. I'm not using Yahoo. I don't want any contacts associated with Yahoo. I am just trying to move those contacts from that list to "All iCloud", and then delete the list called Yahoo entirely.


I can see how to export these contacts from Yahoo into iCloud. But I am trying to completely get rid of the Yahoo list on my iPhone. Maybe the only way to do this is through Yahoo. I haven't used any of that in a long time.


The real problem is that even when I copy the contact over to iCloud if I delete it from Yahoo, it deletes it EVERYWHERE.

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