How To Move Contacts From Icloud To New Iphone

Open settings app on your iphone in ios 11.

How to move contacts from icloud to new iphone. Let s say for example you have a professional contact list that you desperately need to transfer to icloud so you can then retrieve it on a new work device. Steps to move contacts from on my iphone to icloud. Toggle on contacts and choose merge to merge all your iphone contacts existing on your iphone with the contacts saved in icloud. Turn on your new device. With the simple steps above you can move your iphone.

Sync contacts from icloud to iphone. Tap on your name icloud. From here open the settings on your new iphone tap your apple id to go to icloud then make sure the contacts slider is in the on position. Or if you have made an icloud backup including the contacts you can make a restore to download the whole backup on iphone. After you open the contacts app on your new phone swipe down and hold so the old iphone s contacts transfer over to your new iphone.

Then follow the steps below to back up iphone contacts to icloud. If you have an apple watch and you got a new iphone unpair your apple watch from your previous iphone before you set up your new device. Transfer your sim card. On the apps data screen choose restore from icloud backup and follow the prompts to finish restoring the iphone backup and copy your old contacts to the new phone. Transfer your personal data and purchased content to your new device using your previous device s icloud backup.

If your new iphone has already been set up restore the backup data onto it by erasing the content and settings and choosing to restore from an icloud backup when prompted. Unpairing automatically backs up your apple watch so you can restore it after you pair with a new iphone. Have your apple id and password ready. How to transfer your icloud backup to your new device.