Keep Apple devices in sync

To recover the contacts, check the box in front of the Contacts and click the 'Recover' button, then you are successfully save the content on your computer. If you have a need, you also can mark message, photos, notes and other data to restore them. Oct 10, 2020 Open your Gmail account and click on the Gmail icon Click on the Gmail icon and select the Contacts option from the drop-down menu. The time you see the contact list, tap on More to get the drop-down menu.

Many people have several email addresses across disparate email providers, all of which keep track of their contacts. Google Contacts, for example, is a standalone service which only tracks people you’ve contacted via Gmail, when using an Android phone, or if you’ve synced it to your iOS device.

Apple keeps your contacts within its standalone “Contacts” app. Both entities are siloed vaults for contacts, and it can be confusing when your contacts aren’t synced to the devices you use most often. If you deleted a contact in Google Contacts, it’s also smart to have all your contacts synced to another service and to backup your device often so you never lose any data.

Here, we’ll tell you how to sync Google Contacts to iPhone, if there’s a Google Contacts for iPhone app, how to import contacts from Google to iPhone manually, and why it’s important to have your Google contacts on iPhone.

Reasons to transfer your Google contacts to iPhone

Many people use Gmail as their default email provider and can’t see a reason to export Google contacts to iPhone. It’s a fair position, but these are a few reasons importing Google contacts to iPhone is a great idea:

• You have one place for all contacts. Gmail for personal use, iCloud for your Apple devices, Outlook for work – all the unique email providers log your contacts in distinct vaults. Having one place all your contacts live is smart.
• Services often don’t sync. You may be emailing someone new fairly often, then go to text them and find they’re not in your contacts list. That’s because services often don’t sync contacts automatically. Routine backups and syncing are the right moves to make.
• You can merge contact info. When you sync your Google contacts to iPhone, there’s an option to merge contacts. Someone may have emailed from a Gmail address, but you’ve got their Outlook and phone number in another contact. After you import, you can simply merge the two profiles.
• Google makes changes (often). Google once kept your contacts in Gmail, then moved them to the standalone Google Contacts service. There were no widespread reports of contacts being deleted with this transfer, but Google likes to shift ground beneath you. It’s better to sync your Google information to iCloud and back it all up.
• You don’t want to use Gmail anymore. People often switch email providers. Many also want to break free of Google due to privacy concerns. After syncing your contacts, you’re free to email people from an iCloud or other email address with the same ease of using Gmail.
• iCloud supports ‘Push’ syncing on iPhone. For syncing contacts and data, Apple forces Gmail and other services to use a ‘Fetch’ protocol to get new data. This means your data is synced less frequently, which can cause contacts to not sync properly, or when you need them.

How to sync Google contacts to an iPhone

You can sync Google contacts to iOS without ever touching your iPhone! Syncing iCloud to all of your Apple devices will keep your iCloud contact data on each of your devices. This means you can grab Google contacts from the web and download them to your Mac. Here’s how:

1. Go to google.com
2. Sign into Google if necessary
3. Open the Google Contacts app from the nine-dot menu on the top right of the page
4. From the Google Contacts website, select “Export”
5. Choose “vCard (for iOS Contacts)” from the popup window
6. Select “Export”

This downloads all of your Google contacts in vCard format to your Mac. To read and download Google contacts iPhone will need them to be in vCard format, so don’t overlook that step.

With your Google contacts downloaded in vCard format, follow these steps on your Mac to download and sync the contacts to your iCloud account:

1. Open the Contacts app on your Mac
2. From the menu bar, select “File”
3. Choose “Import”
4. Select the vCard file downloaded from the Google Contacts website
5. Choose “Open”

Your Google contacts will download to your Mac’s Contacts app, which syncs with iCloud.

Sync Google contacts to iPhone via settings

If you want to skip the Mac altogether, you can! In the iPhone’s settings, you can sync your Google contacts data directly. Just remember it only ‘fetches’ data and won’t push new or changed contact data to your device automatically. If you’re syncing data and don’t see a contact, this may be why.

First, you need to add your Google account to your iPhone. If your Google account is already synced to your iPhone, feel free to skip these steps. Otherwise, this is how to add your Google account to the iPhone:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Select “Mail”
3. Choose “Accounts”
4. Select “Add Account”
5. Choose “Google” from the list
6. Follow the on-screen prompts and enter your Google account login credentials

Here’s how to sync Google contacts to iPhone via the Settings app:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Select “Mail”
3. Choose “Accounts”
4. Select your Gmail account
5. Make sure “Contacts” is toggled on

Whichever method for syncing contacts you use, one thing you should definitely do is create backups of your iPhone. For that, AnyTrans is exactly what you need.

With AnyTrans for Mac, you have complete control over your iPhone. Simply open the AnyTrans app, plug your iPhone into the Mac, and you will be able to create backups of your entire device, or particular items like messages, photos, and even contacts!

AnyTrans has a ton of other features, too, including the option to quickly transfer your iPhone’s data to a new device. You can also manage your home screen, delete apps from your iPhone, restore your phone from previous backups, and curate your media library!

Import Google contacts to iPhone with iCloud

After importing your Google contacts to your Mac, iCloud should sync your contacts across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

To verify your iCloud contacts are synced with your Mac, follow these steps:

1. From the Mac menu bar, select the Apple logo on the top left corner
2. Select “System Preferences”
3. Choose “Apple ID” at the top right corner of the new window
4. Select “iCloud” from the left side of the window
5. Make sure “Contacts” is toggled on

On your iPhone, ensure your iCloud contacts are syncing by following these steps:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Select your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
3. Choose “iCloud”
4. Ensure “Contacts” is toggled on

If you like, feel free to toggle contacts off and back on to trigger syncing. This shouldn’t be necessary, but doing so will ping the iCloud servers to initiate syncing of contacts or any other cloud service to your iPhone.

Contacts is one of the services iCloud syncs across your devices. There’s also Mail, which keeps your inbox and folders current on all devices; Reminders, to help you manage to-do lists and trigger reminders when you’re at a location; Notes, which syncs and shares all of the data in your Notes app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac; Messages, to ensure all chats are up to date; and Safari, which keeps open tabs, the reading list, and bookmarks synced on all of your Apple devices.

Those services all stake their claim to your iCloud storage, but none as much as Photos. Most users will notice their iCloud data allotment is dominated by the pics and video in the Photos app, which is synced across all Apple devices. Much of what’s found in Photos may be unnecessary, too; old photos, screenshots, and blurred images occupy precious space.

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The Gemini app for Mac helps you manage similar and duplicate images in your Photos folder, which you are then able to delete quickly. The Gemini iOS app continually watches your Photos app for video, screenshots, and other categories. It then creates unique folders for those media types in the Gemini app, and provides a quick and easy way to bulk-delete your images. The gigabytes of iCloud storage you will reclaim with Gemini make it well worth a download.

Conclusion

Managing contacts on your Apple devices is simple. You may prefer to sync your Google contacts and continue using Gmail and other Google services, or download and add all of your Google contacts to iCloud. Either way, you’re in full control.

AnyTrans is a great app for managing backups, a practice we should all be in as we move and sync data across services. If anything goes awry, a backup helps you recover data with ease.

Gemini helps manage files, folders, and photos to keep your iCloud free of unneeded files. If you’re going to sync data, you should keep as much room available in your cloud storage account as possible.

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Some people accidentally deleted their contacts from iPhone. Is there any useful methods to get back the contacts from iPhone?

There is no need to be depressed any more. Fortunately, iPhone Contact Recovery can help you to recover your deleted data from iPhone, which is an easy-to-use tool to restore your deleted or lost contacts smoothly. There are three main ways to get your lost contacts back. One is retrieving contacts from iPhone directly. The other one is restoring iPhone contacts from iTunes/iCloud backup.

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Part 1: How to Restore Contacts on iPhone Directly

Step 1. Run the program and connect your iPhone to the computer

After downloading and installing the program, then run it on your computer. Connect your iPhone to the computer.

For iPhone 11 (Pro Max)/XR/XS/XS Max/X/8/8 Plus/7/7 Plus/SE/6S/6S Plus/6/6 Plus/5S/5C/5/4S user, you can click 'Start Scan' button directly.

For iPhone 4/3GS user, you can choose 'Advanced Mode' at the corner of the window to get a deeper scan.

Step 2. Enter the device's scanning mode and scan it

iPhone 11 (Pro Max)/XR/XS/XS Max/X/8/8 Plus/7/7 Plus/SE/6S/6S Plus/6/6 Plus/5S/5C/5/4S users need to click 'Start Scan' to directly scan your iPhone for deleted contacts on it. For iPhone 4/3GS users, follow the steps below to enter the device's scanning mode to scan it:

• 1. Hold your iPhone and click the 'Start' button.
• 2. Pressing the 'Power' and 'Home' button simultaneously for 10 seconds;
• 3. In 10 seconds, release 'Power' button, while keep holding 'Home' button for another 15 seconds until you get the message of successfully entering.

Whichever device you use, the program will automatically begin scanning your iPhone according to your lost contacts after you doing the steps.

Step 3. Preview and recover iPhone contacts

You can preview all found data before recovery after the scanning. Choose 'Contacts' to preview, then mark the ones you wanted and click 'Recover' button to save them on your computer easily.

Part 2: How to Recover iPhone Contacts from iTunes Backup (2 Ways)

Method 1: Restoring iPhone contacts from entire iTunes backup

If you want to use iTunes to recover deleted contacts, you should close automatic syncing function first, then follow the step:

Step 1. connect your iPhone to iTunes

Step 2. Right-click on your device

Step 3. press 'Restore from backup…'

Step 4. choose a backup to proceed.

But you must know that in this way, all the old data on iPhone will be erased and covered by the backup file, you can't restore the old data anymore once you find that some data is lost. So you need to consider carefully before iTunes backup overwritten all iPhone data.

Method 2: Selectively recovering iPhone contacts from iTunes backup

This iPhone contacts recovery program enable you to restore iPhone contacts from iTunes backup, no matter you are using iPhone 11 (Pro Max)/XR/XS/XS Max/X/8/8 Plus/7/7 Plus/SE/6S/6S Plus/6/6 Plus/5S/5C/5/4S or iPhone 4/3GS , or you just lost it.

Step 1. Scan the backup file

Note: To prevent the backup file from being updated and replaced by the contacts on your iPhone now, please do not connect or sync your iPhone on iTunes after you lost your contacts.

If you have ever synced different iDevices with iTunes before, there will be show you more than one backup files after clicking 'Recover from iTunes Backup File'. Choose the one for your iPhone and click 'Start Scan'.

Step 2. Restore your contacts from iPhone

The scanning may cost you a few seconds. You can find all the contents on the backup file displayed in details. The data presented in the scan result is clear, organized and in original quality. You can preview all data in the scan result except for video files.

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To recover the contacts, check the box in front of the Contacts and click the 'Recover' button, then you are successfully save the content on your computer. If you have a need, you also can mark message, photos, notes and other data to restore them.

Form the scan result, you can see those existing in the backup file and those deleted from your iPhone showed in different colors. You can separate them by clicking 'Only display the deleted items'.

Part 3: Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone Via iCloud Backup (3 Ways)

Method 1: Recover deleted iPhone contacts from backup via iCloud

One: Merge iPhone contacts from iCloud backup

If you turn on iCloud auto-sync, you should have a backup for contacts, You can go to step 2 to check out if the deleted iPhone contact is still visible here. For many people, I think the below way is the easiest to recover deleted contacts.

Step 1. Open https://www.icloud.com in the browser, enter your Apple ID and password to sign in.

Step 2. Tap on Contacts (if you can't find the deleted contact after searching it, then your contact did not make a backup before, the way can't work for you).

Step 3. If you can find it, pick up your iPhone, click 'Settings' > 'iCloud' > 'Turn off Contacts'.

Step 4. Select 'Keep on My iPhone' in the pop-up.

Step 5. Now turn back on contacts and click 'Merge'. After a few minutes, the deleted contacts will back to your iPhone.

If you can't merge successfully, you can delete and re-login the iCloud account by using your Apple ID and password, then merge again, the deleted contacts should be back to your iPhone. To avoid losing the contact next time, I suggest you make a backup after you add a new contact or intervals of one month. Follow the step: Login to your iCloud, click 'Contacts' > 'Settings' icon on the left bottom > 'Export vCard…' > export a .vcf file to your computer, you can transfer it to your email or iPhone as a backup, if you want to recover iPhone contacts next time, you can open it on iPhone and restore contact back to iPhone.

Two: Recover iPhone contacts from entire iCloud backup

Before you use this way to recover iPhone contacts from entire iCloud backup, you should know that all iPhone data will be overwritten by the old backup, so you have to choose the correct backup file contains all the data, then follow the below steps.

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Pick up your iPhone, click 'Settings' > 'General' > 'Reset' > 'Erase All Content and Settings' > 'Erase iPhone' on the pop-up. After the iPhone restart, click 'Set Up iPhone' > 'Restore from iCloud Backup' after a interface appear, then you need to sign in your iCloud account to download the content onto your iPhone. After that, the iPhone will restart automatically, you need to wait a short time before restore the backup back to your iPhone.

Method 2: Selectively recovering iPhone Contacts by Extracting iCloud Backup

Step 1. Choose recovery mode and login in iCloud

After installing iPhone data recovery software on your computer, launch it. Then choose 'Recover from iCloud Backup Files' mode. Here you need to enter your iCloud account and password to sign in iCloud.

Step 2. Download and scan your iCloud backup file

After logged into iCloud, the software will find all iCloud backup files and display as a list. You just need to select one backup that you want to access and click 'Download' button. After that, choose contact option in the pop-up, click 'Scan' button to extract your iCloud backup file.

Step 3. Preview and recover iPhone contacts

When the scanning is finish, the software will display all contacts in your backup one by one, you can preview all of them, mark the one that you want to recover, save them to your computer or transfer them back to iPhone by clicking the 'Recover' button.

Part 4: Recover Deleted iPhone Contacts By Using Google Contacts

You can recover deleted iPhone contacts if you have made a backup on Google Contacts before. Google Contacts provide you enough space to store contact information, so you can use it to backup your iPhone contacts. If you deleted contacts by accidentally, don't worry, the contacts isn't lost forever, you can restore them via Google Contacts, but you need to know that it is only available for the previous 30 days. The below tips maybe helpful for you if you want to recover contacts.

1. Sign in Google Contacts website in browser by using your gmail account and password.

2. Click 'Contacts', in the drop-down menu on your left hand side, select 'More' > 'Restore contacts'.

3. Select the time you want to revert to and it includes the deleted contact, then tap 'Restore'. You will see the deleted contacts have been restored in a short time.

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You can also use the second method:

1. Enter your gmail account and password to login Gmail.

2. Click Gmail on the little arrow in the top left, tap 'Contacts' from the drop-down menu on the left side.

3. After see your contacts list, tap 'More', in the given menu, click 'Restore contacts'.

4. Select the time frame to include the deleted contact and then tap 'Restore'. Recovery will be completed in a short time, the page will give you notice.

You can also use the third method:

Pick up your iPhone, click 'Settings' > 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' > 'Add Account' > 'Google'. Then enter your google username and password to login, turn on 'Contacts', the google contacts will start syncing to your iPhone, you will see the deleted contacts in a short time.

Part 5: Recover iPhone Contacts By Using Messages app

When you accidentally deleted an important contact in your phone book and want to restore it, the following methods may be useful to you.

1. Pick up your iPhone, click 'messages', select 'New message' in the new window.

2. In the 'To' field type, enter a few numbers or the name of the contact (it need to contain the deleted contacts info in your phone book).

3. Contact information is likely to pop up although it has been deleted from your phone book.

Part 6: Other Methods to Restore iPhone Contacts

1. Recover Deleted iPhone Contacts from Old SIM card

If your old SIM card store new card deleted contact, you can use it to restore the deleted contacts. Follow the tips:
Insert your old sim card to the iPhone, then click 'Settings' > 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' > 'Import SIM Contacts'. Re-insert the new sim card to your iPhone and check phone book, you will find the deleted contacts have been back to your iPhone.

Mac teddy kohl pencil. 2. Retrieve Deleted iPhone Contacts from Outlook

If you store the iPhone contact in Outlook, you also can use it to recover deleted contacts.

Sign in Outlook in browser, click the small dotted square icon in the top left corner. Select 'People' > 'Manage' > 'Restore deleted contacts', select the contacts you want to restore, tap 'Restore'.

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Or you can click 'Settings' > 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' > 'Add Account' > 'Outlook' on your iPhone, sign in Outlook by using email and password, turn on 'Contacts', the outlook contacts will start syncing to your iPhone.

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