How do I import my hotmail contacts to icloud?

Yes, It's still an open question.

Most of us have had to import them one at a time into the Apple cloud.

Easiest way is, if you have a gmail account, import your contacts from hotmail account into gmail address book. Then you can export your contacts from gmail to apple address book. Hope it works for you

Thanks Jebs59. Been trying to get this working for days now. All sorted so quickly 🙂

Th e best way to import and make your contacts to one vcf file is as follow:

How to make all contacts to one vcf file

1. - Cmd
2. - Change directory cd to the folder that contacts saved in
3. - Type this copy *.vcf all.vcf
4. - You will get all contacts saved in all.vcf

And when you done that

To copy contacts from pc to iphone

1. - Send an email to your iphone with this all.vcf file attached
2. - Open the attachments and insert the contacts to your iphone

To be albe to do this you could import your Hotmail contacts to your Macbook / iMac Adress book and then choose your adress book to be synced with iCloud

To do This you should:

1. Import From Hotmail To Adress book

• Go To Hotmail.com
• Go To contacts
• Go To Manage
• Then Click on Export

Now you contacts will be downloaded as a .csv file into your download folder

2. Import .csv File Into Your Adress Book

• Open Contacts
• Go To File
• Then Click On Import & Choose the .csv File that You Just Downloaded

Now all you contacts will be added to your adress book

3. Now To Sync everythign into iCloud

• Go To Your Contacts Preferences in Your Computer
• Make Sure Your icloud Account is Ticked

Now Your Contacts Will Automatically be On iCloud and On All Your Devices

I Hope I Have Helped You

This worked perfectly

It is quite easy to do, but you do need a full Outlook client.

1. Connect your hotmail/live account in outlook

2. Set up icloud control panel to import email and contacts.

3. Open Outlook and just copy contacts from the hotmail accout to icloud

4. Click Send ALL

Job done

Can also use for email moving and calendar events

Jips1971, you're absolutely correct. That's an excellent way of doing it if you've got Outlook. iCloud is an excellent, powertful tool which has been added since this discussion was originally opened. :-)

For luddites like me with a Windows PC with MS Office and iCloud installed, iCloud Control Panel makes this easier

1. Open Outlook

2. Install Hotmail Connector - your Hotmail contacts will now synch with Outlook

3. Go to Contacts button on Outlook click on Contacts (Hotmail), press CTRL+A for select all

4. Got to Contacts button on Outlook click on Contacts (iCloud), press CTRL+V for paste

5. All contact cards will appear in your Outlook Contacts (iCloud) folder.

iCloud Control Panel will automatically synch these contacts up to iCloud, which will then sunch them down to all your iOS devices: voila!

Spend a lot of time trying to do this for days. I'm glad I'd found your post. It worked!! thanks a lot 🙂

Couldn't figure this out for a month since I got my Mac and it looks especially promising for the OS X 10.10 Yosemite update.

Huge thanks mate

thank you very much!

1. in your mac, log in to hotmail/outlook.com

2. click the menu icon on left top corner and go to People.

3. in People, click manage and then "export for outlook.com to other services"

4. a ".csv" file will be downloaded.

5. open contacts. click file>import.

6. select the ".csv" file that was just downloaded.

7. hit import.

Now your all hotmail/outlook contacts will be imported to iCloud. hope it helped you. Thanks.

This worked! Thanks!

I read all of these and found a SOLUTION that works for me:

1. Export your contacts from hotmail as a cvs file to your desktop (or other easy to find place)
2. Open contacts on your MAC
3. Select File>Import and import that file

This did not work in iCloud, but I had no problems with this simply procedure on my computer. Assuming iCloud if functioning correctly with your phone and moving your hotmail contacts is the only issue (iOS up to date, iCloud and phone are communicating when you add or delete from one, etc.), this should work.

Additionally, I would recommend going into your iPhone settings>contacts and make iCloud your default account.

Hope this helps!