How to Export iPhone Contacts to Computer Without iTunes

Don’t know how to export iPhone contacts to computer? Check this article to learn easy ways to back-up iPhone contacts to computer

Updated Mar 20,2018 | by Micky

As you know, it is essential to back-up iPhone’s data to avoid losing important information when iPhone is broken or lost. And one of the most important data on iPhone is iPhone contacts. So here is the question: how to export iPhone contacts to computer? Some users will export their iPhone contacts by iTunes. However, when you use iTunes to back-up your iPhone contacts, you will find that iTunes will export all of your data to PC. And when you need to restore your iPhone by iTunes, the data on your iPhone will be totally replaced by the information in iTunes.

The problem is that sometimes we just want to export our contacts rather than all of the iPhone data. So is there a better way to export iPhone contacts to computer without iTunes? Of course! Here we will show you two great ways to help you export iPhone contacts to computer without iTunes.

Method 1: Export iPhone Contacts to Computer with iCloud

To export iPhone contacts to computer with iCloud, you need to ensure that your iPhone has been connected to the Wi-Fi. And then follow the following guide.

1. Open your iPhone, Go to “Setting” App.

2. Click your name and choose “iCloud”, and check the “Contacts” button is open.

3. Then Launch a browser on your PC, and visit iCloud.com.

4. Log into your iCloud account, and choose “Contacts”

5. Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of the page, choose "Select All" and then click "Export vCard" to export contacts from iCloud to PC.

iCloud can help you export your iPhone contacts successfully. But when you sync iPhone contacts to iCloud, all of the iPhone contacts will be back-up to iCloud. All of the contacts on iDevice logged in the same Apple ID will become the same one which you just exported by iCloud. If you don’t want it to be same, you need to use different Apple ID on your different device which is very complicated. Meanwhile, the information update to iCloud from different devices which may experience a delay.

Export iPhone data to PC by iCloud is not convenient and efficient enough. If you want to export iPhone contacts to computer with more stable, efficient and safer ways, please keep reading the following content.

Method 2: Export iPhone Contacts to Computer without iTunes/iCloud

As an alternative, you can export iPhone contacts to computer with some third-party tools, instead of iTunes/iCloud. Most of the third-party software is more convenient than iTunes/iCloud. In this article, we recommend you to use IOTransfer which is one of the best all-in-one iPhone data managers. You can easily export iPhone contacts including name, company, number, email, address, etc. to the computer. What’s more, IOTransfer can help you back-up photos, videos, music and so on. Using IOTransfer to export iPhone contacts to PC is quite easy. Let’s see how it works.

1. Free download IOTransfer and install the program on your computer.

2. Connect your iPhone to PC via the USB port on your PC via USB cable. Tap on ‘Trust’ if it asks for permission.

3. Run IOTransfer and Go to “Manage” section, and choose “Contacts”.

4. Check the contacts you want to export to PC. (You can click” select all “if you want to export all of the contracts.)

5. Click “Export” button. Then IOTransfer will export all of the contacts you selected to your computer.

IOTransfer can help you export iPhone contacts to computer. What’ more IOTransfer also enables you import contacts from PC to iPhone. Besides data back-up, IOTransfer is also a free online video downloader which helps you free download videos from almost all popular video websites.

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