Top Three Ways to Transfer iPhone Contacts to Mac

"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? And are there any easier and faster ways to transfer contacts from iPhone to Mac?"

1. Syncing iPhone contacts to Mac with iTunes

The answer of the first question - "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 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.

2. Syncing iPhone contacts to Mac with third-party application

The answer of the second question – "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.

Mac FoneTrans by Aiseesoft can be the NO.1 iPhone Data Transfer in the word. It can sync not only contacts, but also calendar, messages, notes, and almost everything on your iPhone to Mac. 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 FoneTrans

Step 1 Download and install iPad Movie Transfer to your computer

Step 2 Start iPhone Contacts Transfer and connect your iPhone to Mac with USB

Step 3 Sync iPhone contacts to Mac

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

In 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 output-format of your iPhone contacts.

Once choose output-format, a dialogue box will pop up to ask you 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 in the left bottom of interface. Then click OK and your iPhone contacts have successfully synced 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) to iTunes or Mac.

◆ Transfer music, photos, movies, contacts and playlists from iOS device to another iOS device.

◆ Manage and edit music, photos, messages, and contacts.

3. Transfer contacts from iPhone to Mac with Gmail

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

The above three ways are avialable for you to have a try by yourself.