4 Ways to Move iPhone Contacts to SIM Card
Hello friends! On this occasion, I want to share how to move iPhone contacts to a SIM card.
In some situations, such as when you want to change cellphones or want to move contacts to another cellphone that does not have a cloud sync feature, then you need to try other ways to transfer iPhone contacts to SIM card.
Tips Before Moving iPhone Contacts to SIM Card
Before moving contacts to a SIM card, there are several tips to keep in mind:
- Make sure your SIM card has enough free space to save new contacts. If the SIM card capacity is full, you need to delete unnecessary contacts or move some contacts to another phone or cloud account.
- Make sure all the contacts you want to move to the SIM card are synchronized with your cloud account or other phone. This is important to ensure that you don’t lose important contact data if something goes wrong in the transfer process.
- If you use an iPhone with a nano SIM card, make sure you use a SIM card adapter so that your SIM card can fit into the SIM card reader on another phone.
- Make sure you have backed up all contact data on your iPhone before carrying out the transfer process to the SIM card. This aims to avoid losing important data if an error occurs in the transfer process.
By paying attention to the tips above, the process of transferring contacts to the SIM card will run smoothly and without problems.
After getting tips that can help make moving contacts easier, now go straight to the tutorial for moving them.
How to Move iPhone Contacts to SIM Card
Keep in mind that SIM cards have a limited capacity, so you can only store a limited number of contacts on them. However, this method is still effective if you only want to move a small contact list.
Here are the steps on how to move iPhone contacts to SIM card:
1. Import and Export iPhone Contacts feature
- Open the application”Arrangement” on your iPhone.
- Scroll down and find the app “Contact“
- Press option “Import SIM Contacts“.
- Select this option and wait a few moments until the process is complete.
- If the contact is successfully saved on the SIM card, the message “Contacts Stored in SIM“.
- If you have more than one contact you want to move, repeat the steps above for each contact.
- Take your SIM card and insert it into your new phone.
- Now, all your contacts are accessible on your new phone.
Please note that the method above can only be used by older iPhone users who do not yet use a nano SIM.
2. Contacts Backup + Transfer application
Another alternative for moving iPhone contacts to a SIM card is to use the Contacts Backup + Transfer application. Here are the steps:
- Open the App Store on your iPhone and look for the Contacts Backup + Transfer application, download and install the application.
- Open the Contacts Backup & Transfer application.
- Select option “Backup Contacts” on the main screen.
- Select option “Backup to SIM” to move contacts to the SIM card.
- Select the contacts you want to move to the SIM card.
- Click the ” buttonBackups” and wait for the process to complete.
- After the process is complete, insert the SIM card into your iPhone.
- Open the Contacts Backup & Transfer application and select the option “Restore Contacts” on the main screen.
- Select the SIM card as the contact source and select the contacts you want to restore to iPhone.
- Click the ” buttonRestore” and wait for the process to complete.
3. Easy Backup application
With the Easy Backup application, you can move iPhone contacts to SIM very easily and quickly. Apart from that, by backing up your contacts in the Easy Backup application, you can also ensure that your contacts are safe and available in one easy-to-access application.
To move iPhone contacts to SIM using the Easy Backup application, you can follow these steps:
- First of all, download and install the Easy Backup app from the App Store.
- Once installed, open the Easy Backup application.
- Choose “Backups” to back up your contacts in the Easy Backup application.
- Once finished, select “Export” to export contacts to your SIM.
- The application will ask whether you want to export all contacts or just some contacts. Select the option you want and wait until the process is complete.
- Once the process is complete, you can delete the contact backup from the Easy Backup application or keep it as a backup there.
- Furthermore “Download contacts vcf file format“, the file will be sent to the email registered to the application.
- Import vcf file to the SIM card using another smartphone.
- Open the application”Contact” Then “import contacts” from the vcf file earlier.
- Finished.
4. AnyTrans application
Apart from moving iPhone contacts to the SIM card on your iPhone, you can also use an application on your computer to do this task. Here are the steps on how to use the AnyTrans application to move iPhone contacts to SIM card:
- Download and install the AnyTrans application on your computer.
- Connect your iPhone to your computer via a USB Lightning cable.
- Open the AnyTrans application and select the option “Device Manager” on the main screen.
- Select option “Contacts” to see all the contacts stored on your iPhone.
- Select the contacts you want to move to your SIM card.
- Click the ” buttonExport” and select option “Export Selected Contacts“.
- Choose “vCard” as an export format and save the file on your computer.
- Connect the SIM card to the computer using a SIM card reader.
- Open the previously exported vCard file and select the option “Import“.
- Select the SIM card as the import destination and wait for the process to complete.
Now, all the contacts you selected have been successfully transferred to the SIM card. You can insert the SIM card into your new phone and access all your contacts easily.
The final word
Make sure you follow the steps on how to move iPhone contacts to the SIM card above carefully and carefully to avoid unwanted mistakes.
If you have difficulty doing this, don’t hesitate to ask for help from friends or the iPhone user community. Hopefully this information is useful for those of you who are looking for a way to transfer contacts.