Top 5 Ways to Transfer iPhone Contacts to Mac

Part 1. Syncing iPhone Contacts to Mac with Third-party Application

The answer to the second question is – "And are there any easier and faster ways to transfer contacts from iPhone to Mac?"

Answer: YES. There are various options to import contacts from iPhone to Mac easily and quickly. The best one of them is to use FoneTrans, a professional iPhone Contacts Transfer, to sync contacts with Mac.

Aiseesoft Mac FoneTrans can be the NO.1 iPhone Data Transfer in the world. It can sync not only contacts, but also calendars, messages, notes, and almost everything on your iPhone to your Mac. Besides, you also can use it to back up your iPhone data to your Mac. If you want to make a ringtone for your iPhone, this iPhone contact transfer also can help you a lot. With its powerful features, easy operations, and relatively inexpensive price, it is popular among iOS users.

How to sync contacts from iPhone to Mac with Aiseesoft FoneTrans

After the application recognized your iPhone on Mac, click the Contacts button in the sidebar. Then a new interface will appear titled Contacts, you can check out and edit all your iPhone contacts on Mac.

On the upper side of this interface, you can click the Import/Export button to transfer contacts from iPhone to Mac. This powerful application enables you to choose the output format of your iPhone contacts.

Once choose the output format, a dialogue box will pop up to ask you to choose the local place to keep your iPhone contacts on Mac.

When you select the file your contacts to be stored, click the Choose button at the left bottom of the interface. Then click OK and your iPhone contacts have successfully moved to your Mac.

With FoneTrans, you also can do the following:

• Sync music, photos, and movies from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to Mac.
• Sync music, photos, playlists, contacts, and movies from Mac to iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
• Backup iPhone/iPad/iPod touch (compatible with iOS 10 or later even iOS 17) to iTunes or Mac.
• Transfer music, photos, movies, contacts, and playlists from one iOS device to another iOS device.
• Manage and edit music, photos, messages, and contacts.

Part 2. Syncing iPhone Contacts to Mac with iTunes

The answer to the first question is - "If I want to sync contacts from my iPhone to my Mac, do I just have to go to iTunes and click on sync contacts?"

Answer: NO, you need to focus much attention on the process to back up iPhone to iTunes, apart from just launching iTunes and clicking sync contacts.

You have to be sure that your iTunes is the latest version. You need to know the specific information of OS X on your Mac because some versions (OS X Mavericks v.10.9 or later) use iCloud to sync their contacts from iPhone to Mac. You also need to prudently choose whether to replace the contacts on your iPhone or computer or merge all contacts. Plus, it takes much time for you to import contacts from iPhone to Mac. In short, it is a time-consuming and energy-consuming task on Mac. If an alternative option comes, just choose it. After that, you can check contacts in iTunes with some apps.

If your Mac computer runs macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, you can’t use iTunes anymore. But you can go to Finder and select your connected iPhone to sync all of your iPhone data to your Mac.

Part 3. Transfer iPhone Contacts to Mac with iCloud

You also can sync contacts from your iPhone to your Mac using iCloud. This method doesn't need you to install any third-party tools but requires your iPhone and Mac to log in with the same Apple ID and have a stable network connection.

Part 4. Move Contacts from iPhone to Mac Using AirDrop

If your Mac is very close to your iPhone, using AirDrop to sync your iPhone contacts to your Mac is also a good and convenient way.

Part 5. Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Mac with Gmail

The fifth way is to sync contacts to Mac from iPhone with a Gmail account. Here what you need is a Gmail account and an internet connection. And then transfer iPhone contacts to Gmail first, and then download contacts from the Google account to Mac for backup.

Part 6. FAQs about Syncing Contacts from iPhone to Mac