Yes. In the settings (I believe under the "Phone" settings in the Settings app) there's a button labelled "Copy contacts from SIM." I've never used it, but it's there.
you can bring them over from an old phone that way, but you can't elect to store contacts on the SIM to move them to a new phone
I was looking to buy a iPhone 5 (or 4s) next spring and here is my question.
Does the iPhone allow SIM card contacts and numbers to be copied to the iphone?
Because I have T-Mobile now and I think the next iphone will be with tmobile so I was wondering how to copy sim contacts to iphone. Thanks guys for the help!
The iPhone 4 (and probably 5) uses a micro-sim instead of a standard sim card so if you're expecting to just drop in the sim from an other phone then you might be out of luck.