We tried an iPhone for the first time and are determined to switch to the smartphone produced by Apple after many years spent with an Android phone (Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi or others) "> From the new screen, make sure it is ticked under Contacts, so as to synchronize all the phone book numbers in the Google account.
After this check, open the Settings app on the iPhone (possibly connected to the Internet), go to the Password and account menu then tap on Add account .
In the screen we press the Google icon, then enter the login credentials to start the account synchronization.
In order to import all the contacts synchronized on the account, we tap on it once added and make sure that the Contacts item is activated, so as to quickly transfer all the numbers saved on the Android smartphone to the iPhone address book.
To learn more, please read our guide on contact management on Google address book, where we can find other useful information on how to use the synchronization services offered by the Mountain View company.
Contact transfer via CardDAV
If we have phone numbers saved in the Gmail email account or want to use another method to transfer Transfer contacts and numbers from Android to iPhone, we can use the CardDAV account to transfer all the contacts.Let's make sure that the contacts of the Android smartphone are synchronized with the Google account (as seen in the previous chapter), then we open any web browser to see all the phone numbers synchronized online, on the Google Contacts page.
Checked this, open the Settings app on the iPhone, go back to the Password and account -> Add account path, this time choose the Other item and finally select Add CardDAV account .
In the screen we indicate how google.com server, enter the username and password of the Google account or Gmail account, enter a description of your choice, press on the top right on Next and make sure that the Contacts option is selected.
The iPhone address book will be filled with all the contacts from the Google address book, including Android phone numbers and email addresses saved in Gmail.
If we also have an Outlook account and we want to synchronize it quickly, we recommend you read our article on How to Synchronize the address book between Gmail and Outlook and import contacts, so that you can also bring Outlook contacts to Gmail and consequently transfer them to iPhone, thus creating a single centralized address book.
Transfer contacts via SIM Card
This is the classic method, used since the dawn of mobile phones but still valid on modern smartphones.From the Android phone we open the Contacts or Address Book app, go to the options of the same (top right) and start the Import / Export item (or similar names).
Now all we have to do is select the Export to SIM item to transfer all the contacts to the SIM card chip; if we have an Android Dual SIM smartphone, make sure to select the correct SIM, that is the one we are going to use on the iPhone.
At the end of the transfer, we turn off the Android smartphone, remove the SIM containing all the numbers, insert it into the iPhone, turn on the latter, go to the Settings -> Contacts path and finally tap on the Import SIM contacts item.
A small window will open in which to choose whether to import the SIM contacts to our iCloud account or to another account on our iPhone (for example Google).
If the old SIM of the Android smartphone is too big for the iPhone, we can contact our operator for the replacement or proceed with the cutting personally, as indicated in our guide on how to change or cut the SIM-card for iPhone and as a Micro-SIM .
Conclusions
If we have decided to take the "big step" towards an iPhone, it is the case not to find ourselves unprepared, immediately bringing all our contacts saved in the address book of the old Android smartphone.In another guide we have seen how to recover contacts and contacts on Android iPhone and Samsung mobile phones, so that you can transfer contacts to iPhone starting from Samsung branded mobile phones. We also want to transfer multimedia files from the Android smartphone to the iPhone "> App to send files on Android and iPhone, so that we can send all the photos, images, videos and documents without going through the PC.
If, on the other hand, we do not know what to do with the old Android smartphone, in our guide to the different ways of using the old Android mobile phone, we will find many interesting ideas to immediately reuse the phone.
