transfer contacts from macbook to iphone

I sure wish this had worked for me. (I could not find anything that looked like a roladex card, for one.) I am, for the third time, going to quit trying to do this!! In the long run, it is easier for me to enter the contacts (and calendar events) separately to my laptop and iPhone.

Easiest way is to use iCloud. Set up and iCloud account on your phone and enable contacts syncing. Then sync your Mac with your iCloud account as shown here: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html, and enable contact syncing.

What if you don't want to use iCloud?

If you don't want to use iCloud you can sync your contacts using iTunes. If this is your first sync, be sure there is at least one contact in Address Book/Contacts on your Mac. Then select to sync your contacts on the Summary tab of your iTunes sync settings and sync. When you sync you should get a merge or replace prompt for contacts. If you want to merge the contacts on your phone with those on your Mac, choose Merge. If you want to replace the contacts on your phone with those on your Mac, choose Replace.

If you have already been syncing with iTunes, first reset the SyncServices folder as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627. Then follow the process described above.

There have two ways to solve it:

first,you can use iTunes to sync your contacts,you can get on your contacts sync to itunes, and then you can extract contacts from itunes to your iphone.

second,you can use iCloud,you can backup contact to iCloud,and then you can extract contact from backup

However,it takes awhile, not faster,and need to connect the Internet,you can also use some tools to help you to transfer contacts from macbook to your iphone,some tools are free, some tools for a fee,to choose the appropriate tool can help you save time and save unnecessary trouble,Good luck!!!

Use your Mac Address Book and sync your iPhone with iTunes. From the Info tab, under Contacts, make sure to select “Address Book” from the drop-down menu before you sync.
I am not sure whether it works on Mac, but you can use copytrans contacts to transfer the contacts too (in case you do not want to use iTunes sync):

http://gg.gg/s2in

Finally, you can simply use the iCloud app and install it on your Mac. Make sure to enable iCloud contact sync on your iPhone. Then import contacts from your Mac to your iCloud application, this will move and sync the contact entries to your iPhone.

If you'ver updated your OS X to 10.9, using iLike to transfer/sync your contacts from your iPhone to Mac is the most convenient way.

Learn more here:

How to Sync Contacts from iPhone to Mac

Try My Contacts Pro (Free to Download). You could export all contacts on your iPhone and send them via e-mail, also could import them to your Address Book on your Mac.

Hmmm....Great suggestions above from various vendors to export iPhone contact data from iPhone to Mac. However, I'm looking for the other direction Mac contacts syncing or exporting to iPhone or iPod. Mac to iPhone this was a NORMAL feature in iTunes and has been removed by Apple. Apple is requiring that everyone upload their data to APPLE's iCloud...I'm not interested in sharing my contacts with anyone. Just want a local non internet sync computer to iPhone. Anyone have this solution?

How to Transfer Contact from iPhone to Mac computer?

1.Connect your iPhone to the computer via a USB cable

First of all, install and run Coolmuster iPad iPhone iPod to Computer Transfer on your computer. Use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to the computer. After detected, your iPhone will be shown in the primary window, like the screenshot shows below.

2.Transfer iPhone contacts to computer

In the left sidebar, click "Contacts" to show the contacts on your iPhone memory card and accounts, like iCloud, Exchange and Yahoo!. In the contact window, choose the contacts that you'd like to transfer to the computer. Click "Import/Export" > "Export Selected Contacts" or "Export All Contacts" > "to a Single vCard File" or "to Multiple vCard Files". Then the file browser window pops up. Browse your computer to find a place to save the exported contacts.

The easiest way is to go to your Settings Menu of your phone and click on iCloud. Simply click "off" Contacts.

Then log into iTunes on your mac and connect your phone to your mac. With your phone connected, click on the your phone icon, then click the Info tab and scroll down to Sync Contacts and check the box, then you can select to either sync all contacts or a group of contacts that you made.

You can import an electronic business card, also called a vCard, into iCloud Contacts. If the vCard contains contact information for more than one person, each contact becomes a separate entry.

You may also follow the guide How to Transfer Contacts from Computer to iPhone

1. In iCloud Contacts, choose Import vCard from the Action pop-up menu , which appears at the bottom of the All Contacts list or a list of group contacts

2. Select a vCard to import.

The contacts from the vCard are added to the All Contacts group in Contacts. You can add the contacts to any other group by dragging them to the desired group.

There is no way to accomplish transferring your contacts to the iPhone from the Mac without using the cloud or 3rd party software. None of the third party utilities that do this (at least the ones I have seen) are free. And since every time I use the cloud it corrupts my iPhone/iPad software updates and kills my access to new apps (the solution to which is wiping my device, which puts me back without contacts in my phone), my smart phone is really useless except to receive calls, play games, and reply to texts that come to me (kind of tough to send out anything when you don't have any contacts). Or I can sit down for 12 hours and enter everything manually. Apple has abandonded me with no real solution.

If you have 500 contacts or less, the app My Contacts Backup is free.

I've just managed it on my new iPhone 5. Sorry, johnnylugnutz.

Syncing from the old iPhone to the Macbook is easy and wasn't part of the question.

Assuming you now have your contacts updated on your Macbook, unplug the old phone and plug in your new iPhone 5. Wait while it tries to find a way not to talk to you.

Click on the new iPhone icon on the left when it finally appears.

Click on the Info tab on the line along the top. Then click All Contacts (and Sync Calendars and Mail Accounts, if you wish). AND also go to Advanced at the bottom of the screen. Under Replace information on this iPhone, click Contacts (and Calendars, if appropriate). Then click Apply at the bottom right of the screen.

This gives you a one-time transfer to your iPhone (but you can repeat it any time you wish).

It looks like it doesn't work, as the new phone doesn't have a separate icon on the main screen for Contacts. But if you go to Phone at the bottom, there, as one of the options, is Contacts. Open sesame!

I'm still trying to work out how to get a separate icon for Contacts on my main screen.