Transfer, Edit and Back up iPhone Contacts with CopyTrans

If you have already changed your iPhone, or just tried to clean up your iPhone address book you will probably have asked yourself one of the following questions: How to back up my iPhone contacts, how to transfer them to my new iPhone or how to edit my contacts fast and easily?

When searching the www you will come across many iPhone apps that allow you to export your iPhone contacts or to group them. You will probably also find out about iCloud that stores your contacts and many other private data on foreign servers. But, if you are looking for a solution to manage your iPhone contacts on your PC, you will very probably not find many. That's why in the following steps I will talk about a new app that allows to back up, edit, add and group iPhone contacts. It's the only all-in-one app that I found (so far) to manage iPhone contacts from a PC.

Steps

  1. Download and Install
    • You can download the app from the vendors' page: http://www.copytrans.net/iphone-contacts.php. Once the download finished, open the zip folder and extract the file named "CopyTransContacts.exe". Copy it to your desktop and launch the app with a double-click.
  2. Manage iPhone contacts from PC
    • With the CopyTrans Contacts program open, connect your iPhone to the PC. Wait a few seconds for your contacts to appear in the interface. You will now find different features that allow you to "Export selected iPhone contacts" or to "Import contacts to the iPhone".
    • In the left side column you will find a group section where you can add and delete iPhone contacts groups. Just below your iPhone contacts are listed. In clicking on the small button labeled "A-Z" you can define the sorting order. When clicking with the right mouse button on a contact you will find further features like "Edit iPhone contact", "Export" and "Delete". If you want to back up your contacts for a later restore to your old or new iPhone, follow these steps:
  3. iPhone contacts transfer / backup to PC
    • Select the contacts that you want to back up and click on "Export selected". Select the folder where you want to store the contacts. Alternatively you can also drag and drop contacts from your iPhone to a folder on your PC. In the next window select "iOS" (=iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad).
    • All your contacts have been saved as Vcards and can be restored to your device whenever needed. To restore the contacts on your new iPhone, open the program, connect your iPhone to the PC and click on "Import contacts". Select the Vcard (*.vcf) files from your computer and click "OK". All your contacts have now been imported to your iPhone address book (drag and drop is also available).
  4. Edit and group iPhone contacts
    • Another handy feature is the possibility to edit contacts with your PC keyboard. You can add and edit telephone numbers, email-addresses, names, related persons, set contact pictures etc. To open the edit mode of a contact click on the green pen. To organize your contacts on your iPhone it's useful to create contacts groups. Therefore click on the "+" icon in the groups section. To add contacts to a group, drag and drop selected contacts from the contacts list to the group.

Tips

  • It's also possible to export contacts from your iPhone to Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo!, Windows Contacts etc.
  • iPhone apps worth mentioning: My Contacts Backup to export iPhone contacts in vcard or CSV format; Groups: To group iPhone contacts and to send mass messages, etc.

Warnings

  • The program can only be used for free, if you share on Facebook, Twitter etc.
  • It's for Windows only

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