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- For instructions on specific email providers such as Gmail and Yahoo!, please refer to the corresponding tutorial
- Sync iPhone Contacts with Outlook
- Sync iPhone Contacts with Gmail
- Sync FaceBook Friends with iPhone Contacts
- Sync Yahoo! Contacts with iPhone
- Sync iPhone Contacts with Hotmail
- Sync iPhone Contacts with Thunderbird
- For Mac, please refer to Sync iPhone Contacts with Mac
One of the first things you need after having purchased your iPhone is to Synch your personal Contacts, Calendars and Email Accounts from Computer to iPhone
Thanks to iTunes, you can sync all these in just one easy operation
- Connect your iPhone to your Computer ( iTunes should open up automatically. If not, launch it from Start->All Programs->iTunes->iTunes )
- Click your iPhone in the "Devices" section on the left
- Click the "Info" tab
- Check the "Sync contacts with" option and select "Windows Address Book"
In case you don't want all your iPhone Contacts to be synchronized with your Computer Contacts, click "Selected groups" and make your choice the groups you want to synchronize
- Then, hit the "Sync calendars with" check box and select "Windows Address Book"
If you do not want to synchronize all your iPhone Calendars with your Computer's, click "Selected calendars" and select the ones you want to be synchronized
- Finally, click the "Sync" button in iTunes lower-right corner
Notes & possible issues
- Once you complete the above procedure, your iPhone Contacts will synchronize every time you connect your iPhone to your Computer
- In case of any iPhone Contacts synchronization problems, on your iPhone go to Settings->Safari->Clear Cookies and restart the Contacts application ( if your iPhone supports multi-tasking, make sure you have actually closed the Contacts app )
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I have synced my Gmail contacts with my iPhone 4. I have many more contacts (and many of the same duplicate contacts) on Outlook on my PC. Is there any way to sync my iPhone to Outlook without losing the contacts already on the iPhone?
Dear Mandy,
Syncing your iPhone to Outlook as per these instructions allows you to sync your iPhone to Outlook without losing contacts already on iPhone
I can sync Yahoo calendar to iPhone. Is it possible to go the other way? iPhone to Yahoo calendar when I am away from my PC?
I seem to have several issues:
When I connect my iPhone to my computer it doesn’t automatically start synching.
When I open iTunes, it doesn’t recognize my iPhone, even though I did an initial sync shortly after purchasing my iPhone. Since then I’ve input new data on my iPhone and into Outlook and I’m concerned that if I sync them again, I’ll delete the new data on my iPhone – is that the case?
Thanks,
Muriel
Dear Muriel,
If your iPhone is not detected by your computer, just go through these troubleshooting steps
Once your iPhone is detected by iTunes, your best bet is to try our two-way synchronization with Outlook
Hi, this tutorial seems to be for syncing FROM computer TO iphone.
But how do we do the OPPOSITE, ie, BACKUP/MAKE A COPY (not sync) of iphone Calendar FROM iphone TO Mac?
If I’m not mistaken, syncing will erase whatever is on iphone! (I have zero Calendar info on my Mac/Apple iBook computer since I have never used Mac’s Calendar, but on my iphone it’s a different story altogether as I use iphone’s Calendar all the time to make tons of notes on special dates, diary-type journal/notes, etc.)
I DO see you have a separate/distinct “BACKUP CONTACTS” tutorial, but I do not see a separate/distinct tutorial for “BACKUP IPHONE CALENDAR” (to Mac, not Windows/PC).
BTW, great idea, this website! A very definitely NEEDED NICHE! This whole backing up, syncing business with iphone is a nightmare all around! It is VERY scary for us non-techies.
Thank you!
Dear PM,
Some of the solutions provided here Sync iPhone Calendar allow to Transfer iPhone Calendar to Mac, for example iCal
Can you help me with Iphone 4S, i want to copy contacts between groups( i have “on my iphone” contact group and “icloud” contact group ) and i want to transfer some contacts from one to another? any help?
thank you in advace
Dear Nibras,
You will find many solutions to sync selected iPhone contacts if you look in the comments on this page Sync iPhone with Outlook
Black Berry user; new to iphone. My outlook calander has all my appointments with alerts/reminders. My 4S has an app called reminders. Why did Apple have Reminders seprate from Calendar. How can I sync my outlook calender with Reminders on my phone?
Dear Scott,
To Sync reminders with Outlook, try this iCloud Control Panel for Windows
My iPhone contacts are perfect, I thought I was syncing any new contacts from iPhone to yahoo every time I synced phone on my mac. NO I am not – I am actually loosing the new contacts on my phone. They are NOT MERGING! How do I get my yahoo contacts to match the iPhone contacts. I want iPhone contacts to go TO yahoo contacts and the continue to merge with each other.
Hi, wonder if you can help, please? I have 2 IPhones, IPad and IMac. My 1500 contacts seem to have disappeared from the IPhone. The email addresses are all there, but I can’t find my phone contacts. It says they’re backed up to my computer, but where????? How do I find them and restore them to my phones. It’s driving me mad! It seems every time I sync the IPhone, the contacts leave my phone. This seems nuts. Been into the Apple store, they couldn’t help, been to the vodafone store, they couldn’t help, so I don’t know what else to do. thx very much. Sarah
Trying to synch only MS Outlook 2010 Calendar with my boss’s iPhone, not Contacts or anything else. Can that be done and if so, how?
Will appreciate your reply.