How do I transfer my phone numbers from android to iphone

contacts - import contacts from SIM
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Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Hi,

Welcome to Apple Family.

Yo can do it :

1. Take a backup in your SIM . This is easy way to fix this problem.

2. Sync All Contacts with Gmail in Android device then login to that Gmail in "mail" setting in you iPhone.

After syncing in iPhone, you will choose and get back your contacts.

3. Also there is some 3rd Tools that you can use them with your own responsibility.

GoodLuck.

Distanzia wrote:

Hope this helps

It won't help nearly as much as the app that Apple provides to move content from Android to iPhone. That thread you linked to is 3 years old, from a time before Apple provided a tool specifically for this purpose.

Ok....

1.The thread has posts (replies) from june 2017 and its was the 1st thread that popped up when i ran the search

2.i didn't know off an app that apple has to do this , (i do now)

3. you wrote "If you hadn't linked to it they would still be there" ??? made no sense to me

4. we all trying to help here , users can "Choose" what they want to read

Hi I have an update to my initial reply

Back Story (skip this if you just want to know how it is done) :

Today a work colleague of mine had this exact same problem and had used the Apple App "Move to IOS" on Google Play store to do it BUT ended up with the a problem - he wanted to be able to modify his contacts on his computer (he found this way faster and easier) since he had made some groups on his android phone which didn't transfer correctly(he had access to all of his contacts yes , but he wanted to be able to arrange and modify some), but after the whole Transfer experience he was unable to access or sync his contacts via iCloud (which would be the solution)

so here's what i found

What was happening (again the solution is below skip this if that what you're looking for):

After transferring, his contacts were being read straight off his Gmail account and not actually on his phone or iCloud

- you can find this out by going to "contacts" and in the top left there should be an option called "Groups" (if you have done a contact transfer)

Here it was syncing all contacts from his gmail account (that option was selected)

so to get to the solution would be to somehow get the contacts from his Gmail to his iCloud account

HERES HOW WE DID IT

Step 1.(On a Computer)Go to the Gmail account that has the Contacts and select ALL the contacts in the contacts tab

Step 2. click the "More" button - i found it to the left of the page

Step 3.here chose "export" , (he seemed to be running a Beta version of Gmail that didn't have the option and prompted him to go back to the older version and choose export , we did and it worked out )

Step4. Here a window will appear, with options to choose what groups of contacts you would like to export (example family , friends , everyone etc...) he chose everyone and lover down it asked what Format he wanted in , IMPORTANT you choose Vcard as this is the format understood by iCloud , done! We Exported it to the desktop

Step5. here you need to open and enter iCloud.com with your Apple ID - we did (with his ID obviously) , go to Contacts - Here you will find Nothing as in no contacts (if its your 1st iphone which it was in this case ) and in the very bottom left there will be an "options" icon (it resembles a cog - at least in this version it does) Here Choose IMPORT and select the Vcard file from your desktop AND POW all the contacts were now editable on iCloud!!!

Step 6. (so your iphone retrieves the contacts from iCloud) On iphone go to contacts , and in the top left where it says "Groups" Deselect everything and only leave Sync to iCloud (Its written something like that) selected

Step 7. go to settings - Contacts - and choose iCloud as you Preferred Service for Contacts (again the options are named something like this - his phone was configured in Spanish im literally translating off the top of my head ) -

-we had to do this as when he wanted to add a contact sent to him via Whatsapp App the contact was being saved automatically to his gMail account again and would not apera in his contacts list

It took a little bit of time for the contacts to sync and appear on his Iphone , it was not Instant (about 5 mins)

Hope this helps

Distanzia wrote:

3. you wrote "If you hadn't linked to it they would still be there" ??? made no sense to me

4. we all trying to help here , users can "Choose" what they want to read

3. It means Lawrence reported all the spam links so that the hosts could remove them.

4. We have some small obligation to make sure that the information we share is as accurate possible. Posting a link because it's the the first one that popped up in a search isn't a good enough reason. If you're going to post a link, you need to review it. Why you put the word choose in quotations makes no sense.

ok...

Quotations are there to emphasize the word , i could have also used Underline, Bold text or Capslock , I chose Quotations (if that is grammatically correct or not , i dont care)

and the Apple way of things Didn't work as you guys Said it would, in my case, so i gave a new answer albeit the 1st 1 being a bit off - new solution did the trick and i hope it does for someone else

My message is Stop concentrating on other people and focus on "Yourself" giving the Right or Best Answer (or both) as the meaning of this entire forum is to help! ,

Us bickering on about who gave the best answer or whose was inadequate is a waste of time for all parties and does not center on the point at hand, Which is to HELP

Have a Geat Day

Distanzia wrote:

My message is Stop concentrating on other people and focus on "Yourself" giving the Right or Best Answer (or both) as the meaning of this entire forum is to help! ,

Have a Geat Day

I will continue to do my best to correct misinformation and errors, regardless of who posts it. As an example, Lawrence has corrected my mistakes in the past and I've learned a lot. I think I've corrected him once or twice as well. Corrections are not bickering. They are how we learn. No one was rude to you. You have an incredible opportunity here to learn from people with amazing knowledge. If you're smart, you'll take advantage of it.

this might help

how to transfer contacts from Android to Iphone 6 plus

Hope this helps

Hi Kathryn,

Help here > Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Yes, so more convenient

Thanks for the link to that spam-laden thread. The spam posts have all been reviewed by the hosts. If you hadn't linked to it they would still be there.