We always attempt to transfer everything via iCloud transfer service when we get the new released iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro. However, it doesn't seem to go smoothly for some users. It is not rare to see these users' complaints that the contacts didn't transfer to new iPhone. We do understand how discomfort it is when we have problems transferring contacts to new iPhone. Take things easy, we have summarized plenty of methods to transfer contacts to your new iPhone with the easiest steps.
You're probably wondering why contacts didn't transfer to new iPhone before getting to know the solutions for this issue. Here's why:
Here are all the possible solutions for you if your contacts are not transferring to the new iPhone.
As we have stated previously, the contacts will not be able to be transferred if iCloud Contact is toggled off. So you should turn it on if it is turned off. If this option has already been turned on, then you can try to turn it off and turn it back on again.
Open Settings app on your new iPhone, click on your name and select iCloud.
If the button of Contact is not green, then toggle it on.
Then hit on "Keep on My iPhone" and "Merge" to sync the iCloud contacts to your new iPhone.
You first need to sign into iCloud with your old iCloud account or create a new iCloud account when you got a new iPhone to use Apple Store, FaceTime or other apps that require an iCloud account. To transfer contacts from one iPhone to another via iCloud, you should ensure that the 2 iCloud accounts used on the 2 devices are the same. Look at the simple steps below:
On your new iPhone, go the Settings and check the iCloud information by hitting on the iCloud account.
Check the Apple ID and ensure that this account is also the one you used on the old iPhone.
If you don't log in with your iCloud account, then sign in with the iCloud account that you use to save the contacts.
You may have problems related to contacts not transferring to iPhone if you sync the contacts to other 3rd-party accounts (such as Yahoo, Google) instead of iCloud. If this is the case, you should deselect these accounts and select to sync contacts with iCloud, or all the contacts will be transferred to the app rather than your iPhone. The process for deselecting these accounts to resolve the contacts didn't transfer to new iPhone issue is listed below.
On the main interface of the Contacts app on your iPhone, click on "Groups" in the upper left corner.
All the 3rd-party apps that you can sync your contacts with will be displayed. If Yahoo or Gmail is selected, then deselect it and select iCloud as the default account.
Then click on "Done" and the contacts will be transferred to our iPhone via iCloud account.
An additional element that you may neglect is the iCloud storage. The free iCloud storage that Apple supplies is only 5GB. If the file size of the data stored in iCloud is larger than 5GB, the data will not be synced with iCloud anymore, let alone transferring contacts to new iPhone using iCloud account. So, you will have to check the available iCloud storage on your iPhone.
Get into the Settings, hit on Your name and iCloud on iPhone.
For iOS 11 or later, click on Manage Storage > Backups to check iCloud storage. For iOS 10.3, click on iCloud Storage > Manage Storage to view available iCloud storage.
This could also be the sign of network connection problem resulting in contacts not transferring to new iPhone. Our suggestion is to reset network settings on the new iPhone.
When you are getting into Settings app on your iPhone, click on General.
Select Reset and click on Reset Network Settings.
After the reset, the wifi network, cellular data settings and passwords will be erased completely.
Enter the wifi password or set cellular data to re-connect to network and try to transfer contacts to new iPhone again. This could bring a good result.
You may appeal to 3rd-party software if you are still unlucky to transfer contacts to new iPhone. FoneGeek Backup & Restore (iOS) is that piece of software for you. It is a great application with broad capabilities. With this backup and restore tool, you can selectively transfer contacts from iPhone/iTunes/iCloud backup to new iPhone without overwriting the existing data. You can check more outstanding features of this software below:
Download FoneGeek iOS Backup & Restore on your computer and get started.
Step 1: Launch FoneGeek and connect your iPhone to the computer, then select "Backup & Restore" tab from the top menu.
Step 2: FoneGeek will list all the data you are able to back up. Tick the option of "Contacts" so that this program will only back up contacts instead of all the data. Then click on "Backup" to initial the process.
Step 3: The backup process take a few minutes depends on the data size. Once completed, you can click on "View Backup Data" to view the backed up contacts.
Step 4: Now disconnect the old iPhone and connect the new device you want to to transfer contacts to. Click on "Backup & Restore" tab and choose "To view or restore previous backup files".
Step 5: Select a backup file to proceed. All the data in the backup will be displayed. Just choose the contacts you want to restore and click on "Restore to Device". The selected contacts will be restored to new iPhone.
As what you see in this article, it can be really easy to tackle the problem of contacts didn't transfer to new iPhone particularly when you have plenty of methods to choose from. Hopefully, the contacts will be successfully transferred to new iPhone with one of the methods above.
By Joan J. Mims
Posted on Oct 10, 2019, 10:48:42
Joan J. Mims is interested in researching all tips about iPhone, iPad and Android. He loves to share useful ideas with all users.