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What I’m going to talk about in today’s video is how to transfer contacts from your
old iPhone to your new iPhone without iCloud.
Because on one of my other videos I received some comments from someone.
They said they just got a new iPhone and tried to use iCloud to move the contacts.
But they have run out of the free storage iCloud offers.
And what they want to know is how they can transfer the contacts from the old iPhone
to the new iPhone without using iCloud.
If you have had this problem as well.
Then don’t worry.
Following this video, I have a guide that you can follow down below.
It has step-by-step instructions that can help you out.
The first method I’m going to use is Airdrop.
This is Apple’s wireless file transfer service.
That means it doesn’t require any cables.
You don’t have to install any software as long as you place the new iPhone near the
old iPhone.
Let’s jump right on into it.
This is my old iPhone, this is an iPhone 11.
Now it has a lot of contacts available.
And this is my new iPhone 13.
Open Contacts app, it’s empty.
Now I will show you guys how to get these contacts from my iPhone 11 to my new iPhone
13.
It’s very simple.
On your old iPhone, pull down and slide out of the control center.
Long press on the blank space of the first square.
What you’re going to do now is to tap Bluetooth and Airdrop to enable them if you haven’t
done yet.
Of course, set your airdrop to receive from Everyone.
Tap it.
Open your new iPhone and do these same things.
Enable Airdrop and Bluetooth.
Don’t forget to tap Everyone.
When everything is ready, we can airdrop the contact to the new iPhone.
Open the Contacts app on your old iPhone.
Tap on one contact that you want to transfer, what you can see here is the details info
of the selected contact.
There is a button: Share Contact.
Tap it.
A sub-window pops up here.
What you need to do is to tap Airdrop.
Now, choose your new iPhone as the recipient.
I’m showing you my new iPhone.
Magic, the contact I selected just now appears on my new iPhone.
That’s the easiest way to transfer contacts to your new iPhone.
It doesn’t require anything.
All you have to do is to place you new iPhone near the old iPhone and enable Airdrop and
Bluetooth on both of your iPhones.
One thing to note is that you can only airdrop one contact at a time from the old iPhone
to the new iPhone.
The second method for transferring contacts from an old iPhone to a new iPhone is using
a third-party tool from Appgeeker.
Its name is iPhone Data Transfer.
You can move more than one contact at a time.
The number of contacts is not an issue anymore.
You can transfer as many media files as you like.
All you need to do is follow these next steps.
First of all, if you don’t have iPhone Data Transfer software, then you need to go and
download it on your computer.
I have put a download link in the description below this video.
After you installed it.
All you need to do then is to open iPhone Data Transfer.
Follow the on-screen instruction to connect both your iPhones to your computer.
You may need to tap Trust on your devices to ensure full connection.
As you can see, iPhone Data Transfer has detected your devices and show you the detailed info
about one of your iPhones.
Make sure that your source iPhone and your target iPhone are the correct devices.
You can click on the iPhone’s name at the top of the interface.
From here, you need to click on your old iPhone’s name to switch to set your old iPhone as the
source iPhone.
Then all you need to do is click on the Phone to Phone button at the bottom of the interface.
What you can see is here pops up a sub-window.
This window is showing you that all the media data is selected by default.
We are going to transfer contacts, so here we keep the Contacts box ticked and untick
others.
Here, you may need to click on the iPhone’s name on the right side of this window to set
your new iPhone as the target iPhone.
Then all you have to do is click Start to begin the transfer process.
Done!
Let us check.
I’m going to open the Contacts app on my new iPhone.
All the contacts from my old iPhone have been transferred to my new iPhone.
Okay.
Here comes the last method in this video.
I will introduce how to use iTunes to transfer contacts from an iPhone to another.
Before you move to the detailed steps, what you need to do is check if the iCloud contacts
syncing is turned off on both of your iPhones.
Open Settings app on your iPhone.
Tap on your iPhone’s name to enter your personal home page.
There are many options.
From them, choose iCloud.
See if the button next to Contacts is green.
If it is green, what you have to do is turn the button from green to grey.
Here pops up a window asking you a question.
What would you like to do with the previously synced iCloud contacts on your iPhone?
Tap Keep on My iPhone.
Then the previously synced iCloud contacts on your iPhone won’t be lost.
What I’m going to do next is to repeat these steps on my new iPhone.
Now, we need to ask for help with iTunes to move contacts to you new iPhone.
Open iTunes on your computer.
Once opened, plug your old iPhone into your computer.
You can see, there is a phone icon.
Click on it.
This will lead you to the window that showing you something about your old iPhone.
On the left side of the iTunes window, there are some tabs.
From here, click Info.
The window on the right also changes with your click.
Check the little box next to Sync Contacts with.
After that, click Apply to begin syncing the contacts on your old iPhone with your computer.
Now, unplug your old iPhone and replace it by your new iPhone.
I’m going to connect my new iPhone 13 by the USB cable.
Like the previous operations, click the phone icon and tick the little box next to Sync
Contacts with.
There’s a little different, what you need to do next is to scroll down to find the Advanced
section and then tick Contacts.
The last step, hit Apply to start the sync process.
Congratulations, you have synced the contacts from your old iPhone to your new iPhone successfully.
There are three methods that helped you transfer contacts from an old iPhone to a new iPhone
without iCloud.
You can pick the one you like to solve your problem.
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