How to Sync Outlook Contacts to iPhone (iPhone 6s or Plus supported)

If you're a royal Microsoft Outlook user like me and own an iPhone such as iPhone 6s or Plus, need to import an entire Outlook contact list to the iPhone, tried but still have no idea how to transfer Outlook contacts to an iPhone.

Don't worry, this article will demonstrate three ways to sync Outlook contacts to iPhone. This tutorial also works with an iPad or iPod touch.

Method One: Sync Outlook Contacts to iPhone with iCloud

Note: please back up your Outlook .pst file first before you start syncing Outlook contacts to iPhone and make sure the iCloud control panel for Windows has been already installed on your computer. otherwise please Download and install iCloud Control Panel to your computer.

• Step 1: Run iCloud and sign in your iCloud ID and password.
• Step 2: Copy the default Outlook .pst file to iCloud, and set iCloud .pst as your default. Take care of the syncing and updating of changes on your contacts list between your iPhone and Outlook.
• Step 3: In iCloud primary window, tick Contacts with Outlook, and then click "Apply".
• Step 4: From your iPhone screen, go to Settings > iCloud, sign in your iCloud account. then turn on Contacts to enable syncing contacts with Outlook.

Method Two: Sync Outlook contacts to iPhone via iTunes

This method enables you to sync Contact info from the device with Outlook.

Note: iCloud must be disabled for this method to work.

• Step 1: Plug your iPhone to computer and launch iTunes.
• Step 2: Go to the Devices entry and select the icon for your device.
• Step 3: Click on “Info” tab in the left panel.
• Step 4: Check the items you could sync, then select or.“Sync Contacts with” > “Outlook“. (You are able to choose to sync all your contacts or sync only selected groups. )
• Step 5: Click "Apply" to complete the setup.

Method Three: Sync Outlook contacts to iPhone through Exchange

This method is only available under the circumstance that your iPhone is connected to your internal corporate network, maybe your company have an Exchange server you can sync Outlook contacts with.

• Step 1: Set up your Outlook account by using Exchange.
• Step 2: On your iPhone screen, head to "Settings" > "Mail, Contacts, Calendars". ( Note: If this is your first time to have setup items in this area, simple select “Exchange“, otherwise, please select “Add Account” > “Exchange“.
• Step 3: Fill in your email, user name and password and click "Next“.
• Step 4: Now, your iPhone will contact the Exchange Server and you need to enter the address of the server.
• Step 5: Select information you want to sync with your Outlook account from options "Emails", "Contacts", "Calendars", "Notes".

More Tips: How to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook

If you have a need to sync your iPhone contacts to Outlook, you can also use iTunes to accomplish the transfer job with the same guide as above-mentioned. Here we would like to introduce a free third-party software for more convenient iPhone contacts syncing.

Here is the way for you to sync iPhone contacts to Outlook with free third-party software: Syncios iPhone Manager, simply download and have a try:

Syncios Free iPhone Manager Highlight:

• Ultimate file transfer solution between PC & iOS: Music, videos, photos, apps, ebooks, contacts, messages and more.
• Download videos from 100+ video sharing sites up to 4K HD video quality and transfer to iPad/iPhone/iPod.
• Massive free resources: videos, wallpapers, ringtones.
• Handy toolkit: Audio converter, video converter, ringtone maker, etc.

How to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook with Syncios Free iPhone Manager

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and run this Syncios Free iPhone Manager.

Step 2. Export iPhone contacts to Outlook.

Click Information tab on the left panel of Syncios iPhone Manager , press Contacts icon, all contacts on your iPhone will be listed in the main window, choose the contacts you need and press Backup option. Simply select " to Outlook 2003/07/10/13".

Now, you could sync your iPhone contacts to Outlook successfully.

How to Export iPhone Contacts to a VCF/vCards

Contacts app on iPhone plays a vital role in keeping the basic info of our friends, families, or business partners. Exporting your iPhone contacts to vCards (.vcf) as a backup or printing out iPhone contacts is a good way for us to reduce the risk of contacts loss. Or you have other need like James, an iPhone user,  required  "I wanna import my iPhone contacts in Gmail so I need to export the iPhone contacts to vCard files first. Just wondering if there is any possibility to do that. Any tips will be highly appreciated".

Whatever you want, this article here is focused on how to export iPhone (the latest iPhone 6s or Plus supported) contacts to vCards or VCF files. Just choose one way you prefer.

Three ways to Export iPhone Contacts to vCard/VCF

In following guide, there will be three methods for exporting iPhone contacts to vCard/VCF file introduced, namely export iPhone contacts to vCards file with Syncios free iPhone Manager, export iPhone contacts as a VCF file from iTunes backup, export iPhone contacts to a VCF from iCloud backup via Syncios iPhone Data Recovery.

Part One: Export iPhone Contacts to vCards File Directly with Syncios Free iPhone Manager

Syncios Free iPhone Manager is a great iPhone toolbox to help you transfer files between iPhone and computer, backup iPhone contacts, videos, music, notes, etc,

Simply install and launch this powerful iPad/iPhone/iPod Manager, which allows you to export iPhone contacts to a CSV/VCards and txt file.

• Ultimate file transfer solution between PC & iOS: Music, videos, photos, apps, ebooks, contacts, messages and more.
• Download videos from 100+ video sharing sites up to 4K HD video quality and transfer to iPad/iPhone/iPod.
• Massive free resources: videos, wallpapers, ringtones
• Handy toolkit: Audio converter, video converter, ringtone maker, etc

Now follow the guide below toexport your iPhone contacts to CSV/vCard on your PC/Mac.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and run this Syncios Free iPhone Manager.

Step 2. Export iPhone contacts to vCards.

Click Information tab on the left panel of Syncios iPhone Manager , press Contacts icon, all contacts on your iPhone will be listed in the main window,  you will also see options: New, Delete, Backup, Recover, just select Backup. You can choose Backup selected contacts or Backup all contacts from the drop-down list.

To Export iPhone contacts to vCards file, just select the options from "to CSV File " or "to A single vCard", "to A multiple vCard file ". And you are also able to export iPhone contacts to a .txt file.

Part Two: Export iPhone contacts as VCF file from iTunes or iCloud backup with Syncios iPhone Data Recovery

Syncios data recovery helps to find and export your contacts from iPhone, iTunes, iCloud to your PC or Mac as CSV/ VCF/html. You can preview the backup iPhone contacts directly.

Simply install and launch this smart and powerful iPhone Data Recovery tool, whick can allow you to retrieve your lost contacts, video, SMS, photos, call logs , etc within simple steps.

• 3 recovery modes to retrieve data from your iDevice, iTunes backup and iCloud backup.
• Recover photos, messages, contacts, as well as App data like WhatsApp conversations, iPhoto, Instagram etc.
• You can choose to extract found data to PC or put them back to device.
• Fully compatible with iOS 9 and the latest iOS devices.
• Both Windows and Mac version are all available.

Method One: Export iPhone contacts to VCF from iCloud backup.

Step 1.Choose the iCloud backup to extract iPhone contacts.

After you click "Recover from iCloud Backup" file, you will be prompted to sign in to Cloud. Please sign in iCloud, and then choose the one for your iPhone and click "Download" button.

Step 2. Export iPhone Contacts from iCloud as VCF easily.

Now a dialog will pop up, all the contents from the iCloud backup file including contacts, notes, calendar, Camera Roll will be displayed in detail. Then you just need to select contents you’d like to recover. Then click "next" to move further.

After the scan process is complete, you can preview those selected iPhone contacts, select contacts you need to export and click "Recover" to export selected iPhone contacts as a VCF file on your computer.

Method Two: Export iPhone contacts as VCF file from iTunes backup.

Step One: Scan and preview iPhone contacts from iTunes backup.

Click Recover from iTunes Backup File, choose the one for your iPhone and click Start Scan. Once the scan process finished, all contents from the iTunes backup file including contacts, messages, call history, notes, photos and videos will be listed!

Step Two:  Export iPhone contacts to VCF file.

To export  iPhone contacts, check the Contacts box, just choose those contacts you would like to export, and click Recover button. You can export the selected contacts from iTunes backup to your computer to a VCF file easily.

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