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pradhse
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Q: Why iPhone is not supporting or not providing the feature to copy phone contacts to sim card?.....

I confused..........I just want to swtich the career but same time i want to retain my old sim by copying the contacts from my iphone so that I can use the same in another phone

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 18, 2012 11:28 PM

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pradhse

Q: Why iPhone is not supporting or not providing the feature to copy phone contacts to sim card?.....

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  • by Julian Wright,

    Julian Wright Julian Wright Jul 18, 2012 11:36 PM in response to pradhse
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    Jul 18, 2012 11:36 PM in response to pradhse

    A SIM card cannot store the wealth of contact information an iPhone can hold internally. Therefore you would lose a significant amount of contact data trying to copy it to the SIM. Presumably Apple doesn't want people losing their contact data thinking it is copied to the SIM when it isn't.