You are the owner of the iPhone. Suppose you decide to change your phone. At this moment, a very logical question visits you: "How to copy contacts to SIM on an iPhone?" You have been looking for a solution in the phone menu for a long time, but you still cannot find the answer. And all because copying contacts to a SIM iPhone will not allow. To transfer the phone book to other devices, there are other, less familiar, but quite affordable ways.
Sync Contacts in iCloud
So, the easiest and most convenient way to copy contacts on an iPhone (we can’t figure out how to copy them to a SIM card) is to allow the phone to regularly synchronize with iCloud. To do this, check the iCloud settings in your iPhone or configure it if it has not been done before. Go to "Settings", then iCloud and make sure that the service is turned on, and the switch next to the word "Contacts" is in the on position. Now every day, when your smartphone is connected to the mains (i.e., is charging) and is on the Wi-Fi network, it will synchronize with iCloud - a backup copy of the device will be added to your account on the Apple server containing, among other information , information from the address book. Access to the "cloud" can be obtained by going to the official website. To download information to a new phone, you need to restore data from iCloud the first time you turn on by logging in with your Apple ID. Of course, you can download all the information saved in this way only to smartphones with iOS, so it is not universal compared to other features, like copying contacts on an iPhone. On SIM, it would be more convenient to save them.
Google Contacts Sync
One of the more universal methods than the previous one is to synchronize your iPhone’s records with Google contacts. In order for it to be carried out, it is necessary to make the initial setup of the iPhone. To do this, in the phone’s mail settings ("Settings", the item "Mail, addresses, calendars"), create a new account. On the selection page, click Google, then enter your name, e-mail and password in the Google system. Click "Save." Setup is complete. In order for instant synchronization to occur, you must specify the created account as a standard. You can do this here, in the mail settings, section "Contacts" - "Standard account." Initially, iCloud is installed in this quality. Now go to the Contacts application - automatic synchronization will begin. Now that you have all the entries in your address book on Google, you can download them to another device using your account. Everything is completely uncomplicated and quite convenient. Perhaps this method will become the one you choose when you think about how to copy contacts to SIM on an iPhone.
Please note that old entries already in the address book at the time of the first synchronization will not get into the Google contact list using this method. Only entries created from now on will appear. In order to transfer previously saved phones and addresses, you can use the following method.
Transfer contacts from iCloud
First you need to create a backup of your device in the Apple cloud service. How to do this has been described above. Having visited the iCloud website, select the "Contacts" item there. Having selected all the contacts by pressing the hot keys Ctrl + A (Cmd + A for Mac), click the settings button in the lower left corner and select Export vCard. A file will be created containing all the information about your contacts in the iPhone with the exception of photos. Unfortunately, they cannot be transferred. Now go to your Google account, find Gmail and there "Contacts". Click "Advanced" - "Import ..." and select the file created in iCloud.
Now it’s all! Now you know how to copy contacts from iPhone!
Copy contacts with SIM
If you are interested in the reverse procedure - how to download contacts to an iPhone, then in addition to the above methods, there is the possibility of transferring data from a SIM card. This is done very simply: go to the iPhone in “Settings”, then, again, in the item “Mail, addresses, calendars” and there find the item “Import SIM contacts”.