How do I import my hotmail contacts to icloud?

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!

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.

1 - Goto Hotmail.com or outlook.com

2 - Goto People hub

3 - Click 'Manage'- 'Export for Outlook.com and other services'

4 - Then Open the application 'Contacts' on your mac

5 - In Contacts app, click on 'File' then 'Import'

6 - Import file downloaded from People hub (In Point 3)

7- Sync Contacts with iPhone, iPad, Mac etc

Hi - this worked like a charm, thank you so much. There was a slight hitch in that the mobile numbers had these two symbols in the middle: ' ' but I just removed them in iCloud and now all is well.

Thx again!

These instructions are straight forward. Extremely concise! With a few clicks my hotmail contacts are now in my Mac address book. Thank you so much! I've been online for a couple hours trying to move my hotmail contacts over (after realizing that in my iPhone hotmail was the default account for my contacts).

This was the only replay that actually answered the question and works with no strange workarounds. There were some funky characters in the phone numbers and other places but nothing that could not be fixed by opening the .cvs file first. Note that this solution is the same for outlook.com mail as hotmail.com mail.

Thanks for your support.

Hello all,

I figured out a very quick and easy way to update your contacts to iCloud. Originally, my contacts were unknowingly updating to my hotmail account; therefore not updating on all of my devices. Here is what I did:

1. Download the free iPhone app "PhoneSwappr". This app lets you upload your contacts to their cloud for 7 days.

2. Upload your contacts and save the code they give you. I just took a screenshot.

3. In the iPhone settings, I went to the mail, contacts, calendars tab and made iCloud my default account. This was the main culprit to the problem. I also unchecked the contacts sync from my hotmail account which deleted my contacts from my phone.

4. I went to the contacts app and looked to see that my hotmail group was gone. (click on the groups tab in the top left hand corner of your iPhone screen.) I only saw my iCloud account and my Facebook account. I only left the iCloud checked, and only the iCloud contacts appeared (so in my case I had no contacts).

5. I went back to the PhoneSwappr app and downloaded my contacts with the key code they previously provided.

6. Return to the contacts app and your contacts will be updated. check in the groups tab that iCloud is the only one checked and if the contacts appear with just iCloud, then transfer worked.

7. Uncheck the contacts box in the iCloud settings but do not delete the contacts from your phone. Let them save to your iPhone and then recheck the selection. This will update your iCloud contacts.

I hope this helps!

Sarwaro,

After some 48 hours of non-stop internet research and countless experimental processes, procedures and shenanigans from 'all over the globe' and help websites...your suggestion worked a treat in less than a minute!!

Many thanks and major props!!

DMC

Did you ever get them put in iCloud without doing it manually?

try using windows live mail. It lets you export your contacts to .vcf which you can then import into icloud.

Yeah, I noticed this too. Did anyone fine a bulk way to import into icloud?

The easy way I found how to do this is to keep your contacts in the clould. I kept mine in hotmail and just had the iphone look to that for only contacts.

It worked fine for me.