How to Backup iPhone Contacts to iCloud, iTunes, or Email - the Best Tool for iPhone Contact Backup Is Available

Updated Jul 26,2016 | by Niko

How to back up iPhone contacts to iCloud, iTunes or Email? Contact list is considered as one of the most important stuff stored on your iPhone. Indeed, unlike readjust settings or re-downloading applications, it can be really hard for you to rebuild the contact list of names, phone numbers, email addresses and etc. This is the main reason why you need to backup your iPhone contacts, just in case you need to restore it or transfer it to a new Apple device. In the following, we’ll introduce multiple ways to backup your iPhone contacts easily, including backing up to iTunes, iCloud, and Email, or transferring iPhone contact to PC.

Backup iPhone Contacts to iCloud

The whole process will be completed on your iPhone directly, if you choose to backup iPhone contacts to iCloud. Just follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Settings > iCloud, and make sure you toggle the "Contacts" slider ON

2. Choose Backup, turn on iCloud Backup, and tap “Back Up Now”

In this way, your iPhone contacts will be backed up and stored automatically to iCloud storage.

Backup iPhone Contacts to iTunes

Remember, iTunes does not allow you to backup your contacts selectively. If you make backup via iTunes, then you have to backup other data at the same time. But it’s ok, the backup process would be completed very soon. Also, iTunes lets you encrypt your iPhone backup. Follow the steps below to backup iPhone contacts to iTunes.

1. Connect your iPhone to PC via a USB cable, and open iTunes (iTunes might open automatically once it detects the connection)

2. Click the iPhone icon and enter your iPhone control panel

3. Click “Back Up Now”, and backup your iPhone contacts to your PC/Mac

Backup iPhone Contacts to Email

In addition to backing up your iPhone contacts to iCloud or iTunes, you can also backup it to your email accounts, such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Outlook, Exchange and others. Here, we take Yahoo Mail for example.

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Accounts, and choose your Yahoo! Mail account. (you can add account if there is nothing existing)

2. You will see Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders and Notes options, and turn on the Contacts icon

Backup iPhone Contacts with IOTransfer

Now, IOTransfer perfectly works with iPhone Contacts app. It is the easiest method to backup your iPhone contacts. Using IOTransfer, you can export all or selected contacts from iPhone/iPad with just 1 simple click, and save it on the computer as backup in a specific and safe format. So, the leak of the contacts' information will no longer be your concern.

Besides, IOTransfer allows you to sync contacts between multiple iOS devices, and empty your iPhone address book and delete contacts in bulk with ease. How to backup your iPhone contacts via IOTransfer?

1. Connect your iPhone to PC, and run IOTransfer

2. Go to Contacts tab, and choose

3. Click “Export”

IOTransfer will help you export your contacts and backup them to PC directly.

Compared with the backup of iPhone contacts to iCloud, iTunes and email, IOTransfer iPhone manager seems to be much more convenient than its counterparts. Free download this ultimate iOS transfer tool and give it a try!

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