Is There A VCF Card Extractor (Free) Without Needing iTunes?

[SennaSempre]

I'm using iOS 17.2.1 and I want to extract my VCF Card Contacts from it to install into an Android 14.0.1. My MBP's are all on OSX 10.12.6 Sierra and I'm not going to upgrade them no matter what.

My iTunes 10.0 is incompatible with my iOS 17.2.1 and I'm not upgrading either as well. My goal is to find a "free" 3rd-party app just to move the VCF Cards over to the Android and that's it. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to wash the iPhone and reset it back to factory defaults.

I tried to manually send "shared" VCF Cards to myself through Telegram or Viber but it doesn't work at all with Telegram and with Viber it only send 1 phone number not the VCF Card itself.

Does anyone know of an actual "real-free" 3rd-party app (without needing iTunes to work is key) to migrate over these VCF Cards? thank you.

 

[Snørrbjørg]

Enahle sync with iCloud. Export from iCloud or MacOS Contacts app.

 

[SennaSempre]

man, I worked on this for like 9 hours yesterday, trying to figure it out with 3rd party apps - Dr Fon, Disk Drill, CoolMuster, iMazing, iPubSoft, iSkySoft, etc., etc., etc. trying to test out if any 3rd-party apps "trials" can recover data off of an iPhone without using iTunes but to no avail. They ALL have to use iTunes to connect to the phone otherwise it just won't work. You'ld figure someone would have coded an app to do this by now but I guess the phone won't allow it perhaps?

I don't use iCloud but my address book was in it regardless. I don't cloud anything ever really. I just want it for Find My Phone and that's all. So I signed into iCloud on my desktop browser, exported all my VCF Cards into my HD then imported them to my address book on my MBP and then went into my phone and manually deleted all of my contacts from my address book after double-checking them on my MBP.

Then I drop the VCF card into Telegram to myself, pick up my Android, go to Telegram and import the VCF Card into my Contacts on my Android. That was the easiest way I could figure out how to do it. So you Snorrbjorg were right about that.

As a side note, when you do this, the customized labels for phone numbers like medsec for medical secretary or billing for a billing dept. isn't transferred over into the Android. So if you want to reference your numbers into something more generic instead of main, home, work, then you will have to rename them in your Android to duplicate your iOS customization.

I may need to repost a different thread when I get ready to wash this phone and factory reset it. thank you.

 

[SennaSempre]

So I'm about to wash the phone completely and do the factory reset. When this happens, does it factory reset back to the original iOS when the phone was first opened, (I'm guessing not?) or the last iOS version on the phone or the latest iOS version available? Is it possible to reset it back to the original version when I first bought the phone if I don't have the wi-fi connected during the update? or do I need the wi-fi connected during the update?

I've never done this before, I see how simple it is to do on YouTube videos, but I'm wondering on the mechanics if it's like building a sandwich for lack of a better metaphor. So the original iOS version out of the box is the bottom slice of bread and updates are building layers of meat on top of that bread, small update patches are your veggies lol

So does the factory reset just wipe off all that meat, cheese and veggies that was built upon the bottom bread slice so I'm back to square one with the original iOS? or does the rest give me a brand new bottom slice of bread with what iOS version, the last updated since before the reset, or is it pulling a new update over wi-fi to give me the latest version available?