How to Transfer Contacts from Your Computer to Your iPhone

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Syncing contact between your iPhone and your PCs

Yes, you need a iPhone and your computer to make this happen. If you are PC users, you need some additional steps before you can sync. Information also can be found on Apple's website.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

iPhone
Mac (Mac OS X Address Book or Entourage), Yahoo! Addresses Book, Windows Address Book, Outlook Express, or Microsoft Outlook on PC
iTunes 7.3 (the latest version)
Be patient (sometime it takes few try out before it works)

Step 1

If you are using PC, follow this step and make sure the iTunes sync add-in is enabled in Outlook.

Outlook 2003

1. In Outlook, choose Tools > Options.
2. Click Other and then click Advanced Options.
3. Select COM add-ins and select the iTunes sync add-in and click OK.
4. Click Apply and then continue with the steps below.

Outlook 2007

1. In Outlook, choose Tools > Trust Center.
2. In the Categories pane, click Add-ins.
3. In the Details pane, locate the iTunes add-in in the "Inactive Application Add-ins" list.
4. In the Manage box, click COM Add-ins, and then click Go.
5. In the COM Add-Ins dialog box, select the iTunes sync add-in.
6. Click OK.

If you are Mac users, skip this step...
Step 2

Connect iPhone

Connect iPhone to your computer using the included cable... and iTunes should open automatically.
Step 3

Select iPhone in the iTunes Source pane.
Step 4

Set Up Which Items Are Synced

1. Click the Info tab in iTunes, then do one of the following:
* If you're using a Mac, select "Sync Address Book contacts."
* If you're using a PC, select "Sync contacts from" and then choose Yahoo! Address Book, Windows Address Book, or Outlook from the pop-up menu.
2. Select "All contacts," or select "Selected groups" and select the groups you want to sync.
3. If you're using a Mac, select "Sync Yahoo! Address Book contacts" if you also want to sync with your Yahoo! contacts.

You only need to click Configure when you change your Yahoo! ID or password after you've set up syncing. Click Configure and enter your new login information.

Comments

khurshed said

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on 7/29/2009 Item 3: "Selected groups" is not highlighted so I cannot click on it.
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on 7/8/2009 HELP?? my itunes page does not have an INFO tab. the iphone is in Devices, but I can only eject it. the front screen shows Mobile Me advertisement. any comments or help appreciated. trying to sync contacts from outlook 2007 to iphone. cheers

cruzer56 said

on 2/24/2009 If you have Outlook 2000 or earlier, you can't do a direct transfer to iphone. The easiest way I found was to use my Gmail account. 1. Export your contacts from Outlook to a Comma Separated Values (.csv) file and save on your desktop. 2. Open or create a new Gmail account.3. On left side of page, click Contacts4. Then, on upper right corner of contacts page, click import.5. Browse to your .csv file and import.6. Connect your iphone.7. On left, select your iphone.8. Select INFO tab9. Under Contacts, select Sync Contacts with: Google Contacts (in dropdown).10. At bottom of page, under Advanced: under "Replace information on this iphone: Select Contacts11. Select Apply and Sync.Your Good to go!Cheers!