How to sync iPhone contacts to Gmail

To ensure data is safe and recoverable on different devices, we often use cloud services like iCloud, Google . to save information. If on Android, we can sync contacts to Gmail quickly and conveniently, but with iOS, this seems much more complicated.

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Unlike Android devices, to sync contacts from iPhone to Gmail, we must proceed to sync contacts to iCloud first and then sync to Gmail. Please follow the instructions below.

1. Sync contacts to iCloud

Step 1: Go to Settings => Password & Account .

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Step 2: Click Add account if you are not signed in iCloud, if you already sign in, you can skip this step and skip to Step 4 .

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Step 3: Tap on the iCloud section and log in with your iCloud account or iTunes account.

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Step 4: You turn the switch in the Directory to turn on.

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Step 5: Click Merge to save contacts to iCloud

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2. Export contacts from iCloud to computer.

After importing contacts to iCloud, we proceed to export contacts from iCloud to an excel file to import into Gmail. Follow the steps below.

Step 1: Go to https://www.icloud.com/ and sign into the iCloud account on your phone.

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Step 2: Click Continue to continue.  

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Step 3: Click to select Contacts .

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Step 4: At the interface of contacts, you press Ctrl + A to select the entire directory. Then, find and click the gear icon in the lower left corner and select Export vCard .

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Step 5: After clicking Export vCard, there will be a file in .vcf format in the Downloads folder as shown below: 

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3. Sync contacts to Gmail

Step 1: Access Google Contacts at the following address and login to your Gmail account.  

https://contacts.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wCs

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Step 2: Click the Import Contacts item .

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Step 3: Click on the Select file item .

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Step 4: Select the vCard file you've just downloaded from iCloud and click Open to open it.

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Step 5: Click continue to Import .

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After completing the steps above, your contacts are imported as shown below as we have successfully synchronized contacts from iPhone to Gmail.

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The process of syncing contacts from your iPhone to Gmail can be quite complicated and confusing. If the article is difficult to understand or incomplete, you can comment with Thuthuatphanmem.vn by leaving a comment below the article! Good luck!