How To Move Contacts From Icloud To New Iphone

Have your apple id and password ready.

How to move contacts from icloud to new iphone. Tap on your name icloud. Or if you have made an icloud backup including the contacts you can make a restore to download the whole backup on iphone. Unpairing automatically backs up your apple watch so you can restore it after you pair with a new iphone. 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. 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.

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. Sync contacts from icloud to iphone. If you used to sync iphone contacts to icloud you can turn on the contacts syncing option in settings to let them appear on iphone. Toggle on contacts and choose merge to merge all your iphone contacts existing on your iphone with the contacts saved in icloud. With the simple steps above you can move your 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. Transfer your personal data and purchased content to your new device using your previous device s icloud backup. 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. Then follow the steps below to back up iphone contacts to icloud. Use icloud to transfer data from your previous ios device to your new iphone ipad or ipod touch.

How to transfer your icloud backup to your new device. Make sure that you have a backup of your device. Turn on your new device. Open settings app on your iphone in ios 11.