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One of your most precious and time consuming iPhone data, your iPhone contacts should be regularly backed up
Plus, it's very easy, so let's get started
Backup iPhone Contacts
- Connect your iPhone to your Computer
- Open iTunes
- Click your iPhone in the "Devices" section on the left
- Click the "Info" tab
- Check "Sync contacts with" and select "Windows Address Book"
- Make sure "All contacts" is selected
- Click the "Apply" button in iTunes lower-right corner
- If iTunes asks whether you wish to switch the sync provider, click "Switch"
- Once iTunes finishes backing up your iPhone contacts to your computer, go to Start->All Programs->Accessories and click "Address Book" to make sure your iPhone contacts were properly backed up to Windows
Notes & possible issues
For more specific iPhone contacts backup tutorials, please refer to our dedicated section Backup and restore iPhone Contacts
Restore iPhone Contacts
If you ever need to Restore your iPhone contact from the Winddows Address Book, proceed as follows
- Export Address Book contacts to a CSV file, so you can then import them to either Gmail or Yahoo
- Finally, sync your iPhone with your Gmail or Yahoo Contacts
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This does not work with Windows Live Mail in Windows 7.
Any ideas what I need to do ?
Dear Abi,
On Windows 7, Windows Address Book is now called Windows Contacts
This is the only change
When I complete these steps with a blank Windows Address Book (windows XP) it deletes all the contacts on my iphone rather then copies them to WAB. Almost like it’s “syncing” to a blank address book. How can I stop this?
Dear Steve,
Try our alternate method to Export iPhone Contacts
i was back up my iPhone data to iTunes in my laptop , when my iPhone got struct. now my iPhone got broken. how i can get my contacts, sms , notebook. my operating system is windows7.
Dear Thirunavuckarasu,
Try our solution at the foot of this post Restore iPhone Deleted Data
Worked great- I then exported the contacts to an excel file, which is ideal for me! Thanks!
Buenas noches, tengo un iphone 4 y en la carpeta contactos np me aparece el boton + en la parte superior derecha asà como si entro en un contacto no me aparece el boton edit.
Esto me ha ocurrido desde q actualicé el iphone a la versión 5.0.1
Como poder solucionarlo?
Gracias
Hola Estanis,
Disculpe mi pobre Castellano
Tiene que tornar su iCloud Contactos parametros ON desde en los parametros iCloud