Transfer contacts from iPhone to Mac

[iphone529]

I upgraded to leopard last night and had to format my hard drive. I lost all my contacts on my mac, but have them on the iPhone. How can I get the iPhone to transfer them to my mac?

[RosieO]

This is exactly what I need help with also! I hope someone can help us out.

[iphone529]

I figured it out all you need to do is sync your iphones address book and click merge when prompted.

[RosieO]

Yep, I just figured it out a few minutes ago too! Very easy, thank goodness!

[autumn]

Thanks guys! That was just what I needed.:D

[runners]

I figured it out all you need to do is sync your iphones address book and click merge when prompted.

I thought that when you initially sync the iPhone, the address book in the computer will replace the contact list automatically and if the address book was empty the iPhone will also be loaded and empty. That happened to me because the address book (for some unknown reason had been erased) and it erased the contact list. Apple support was contacted and they indicated that may be a problem with the iPhone 3G when syncing. Now back up the address book to the desk top every time a change has been made, ready in case this happens again.

[laz305]

is there any way to export or transfer contacts from iPhone to iPod Nano?

[jmccullough108]

is there any way to export or transfer contacts from iPhone to iPod Nano?

Sync with Address book on your mac, and sync that to the nano..

If you have any categories, they will not sync, the nano doesn't support categories.

[crunchyapple]

When I synced my iPhone with my Address Book (running Mac OS X) it deleted everything in my iPhone, since my address book was empty. I wanted to import the numbers from my phone to my computer as a backup.

It never prompted me to merge or anything.. just wiped my iPhone clean of numbers.

This is the most frustrating thing about cell phones.. I rely on them to hold numbers for me so I never have to remember them.

Any idea why this happened or how I can fix it?

[Mr. Giver '94]

Any idea how to sync/access text messages???

[aphexacid]

When I synced my iPhone with my Address Book (running Mac OS X) it deleted everything in my iPhone, since my address book was empty. I wanted to import the numbers from my phone to my computer as a backup.

It never prompted me to merge or anything.. just wiped my iPhone clean of numbers.

This is the most frustrating thing about cell phones.. I rely on them to hold numbers for me so I never have to remember them.

Any idea why this happened or how I can fix it?


This exact thing just happened to me. Im on snow leopard now, and i keep archives of my address book, and my girlfriends too. I wanted to make a new archive today because i added about 10 new #'s since the last archive i made 2 weeks ago. i emptied the address book archive because my girls address book archive was in address book from when she did hers a few days ago.

I sync in itunes, it asks me NOTHING. deletes all my contacts off the phone.

I have an idea though, i bet if you just have one contact in your address book on your mac when you want to copy from your iphone to mac, it will ask if you want to merge.

Does that sound like it might work? im not at my mac or i would test it.

anyone want to give some insight? its pretty bad!