From iPhone Contacts to Google Contacts
Transferring a number of contact records from an iPhone into Google Contacts can be a bit of a pain as the iPhone does not offer a way of easily extracting a batch of contact details in one fell swoop. I needed to get quite a few contacts from an iPhone into Google Contacts and to do this I ended up doing the following using my Mac:
- Export individual contacts from the iPhone by "sharing" them one at a time, this generated a series of vCard (.vcf) files.
- Save all the .vcf files into a single folder.
- Open a Terminal window and navigate to the folder where the .vcf files are stored.
- Enter the following Terminal command: cat *.vcf > combined.vcf
- This generates a single .vcf file called "combined.vcf" - or whatever name you choose to give your file.
- Using the Import feature in Google Contacts import the "combined.vcf" file.
- This process will generate all the individual contacts as individual Google Contact records which can then be edited.
Whilst having to export the contacts from the iPhone individually was a bit of a nuisance the approach above saved me a lot of time in terms of the import process and gave me control of the new contacts as they were initially auto-tagged with a label "Imported On ddmmyyyy" which made the group very easy to work on.
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