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How to sync iPhone contacts with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, Windows or other address books?

- You may need: mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer or iPhone Contact Transfer for Mac

Many have such requirements, but as each has its own address book, and different address books have their own unique contact file, so synchronizing iPhone contacts with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, Windows or other address books confused many people. So in view of this case, mediAvatar upgraded iPhone Contact Transfer to solve this kind of problem. Here I would like to show you the solutions in 2 parts.

 
 

Here we take the mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer as an example.

First download, install and launch mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer. You will see how this iPhone contacts transfer looks like:

sync iPhone contacts with address books

Part 1: Sync contacts in address books to iPhone

Before we start synchronizing contacts in address books to iPhone, we need to know what kind of contact file each address book support.

Address book Exported Contact File Format
Google Contacts Google .csv
Outlook .csv
vCard
Yahoo! Address Book Yahoo .csv
Outlook .csv
vCard
Outlook Outlook .csv
Outlook Express Outlook Express .csv
Thunderbird Thunderbird .csv
Hotmail Hotmail .csv
Windows Contacts vCard
Aol Mail Aol .csv
Rediffmail Outlook .csv
Mail.com Outlook .csv
Fastmail Outlook .csv
Yahoo. csv
vCard
Skype vCard
Orange Outlook .csv
Freenet.de vCard
Laposte Outlook .csv

Currently this mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer supports importing contacts from vCard, Google .csv, Outlook/Outlook Express .csv, Yahoo .csv,、Thunderbird .csv, Hotmail .csv, Aol .csv to iPhone.

If your address book doesn't belong to any of the above, you may try to import contacts to iPhone using this iPhone contacts transfer, but some of the contact information may not be imported correctly.

If you want to imports contacts from Social Networking Services (SNS) sites like LinkedIn, Hi5, Orkut,Facebook, Tagged (Anyway, many of them don't support exporting contacts) to iPhone, you may find an address book that supports importing contacts from those SNS sites, then sync contacts from your address book to iPhone. Here is the list of address books and their supported SNS sites.

Address book SNS Site
Yahoo! Address Book facebook
Hotmail Hyves, Hi5, Tagged
Mail.com facebook
Skype Facebook, MSN, mail.ru, Yandex, libero, Ramble, Web.de, Wirtualna Polska, Daum, Interia, Mynet, Indiatimes

There're also people who have other cellphone and want to import contacts in old cellphone to iPhone. So here are the solutions.

Cellphone How to Sync contact from other cellphone to iPhone?
Android Option 1: Export Android contacts as vCard to SD card and import contacts to your iPhone via vCard using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer
Option 2: Sync Android contacts with Gmail, then export Google contacts as .csv file and import contacts to your iPhone via .csv using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer
BlackBerry Sync with Outlook with Desktop Manager then export contacts as Outlook .csv file, then import contacts to iPhone via this .csv using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer
Nokia Option 1: Sync with Outlook with PC or OVI suit then export contacts as Outlook .csv file, then import contacts to iPhone via this .csv using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer (For old Nokia phones)
Option 2: Export Nokia contacts as vCard to SD card and import contacts to iPhone via vCard using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer
Windows phones As the contacts in Windows phone is from Hotmail or Gmail, then just export contacts from Hotmail or Gmail as .csv, and import contacts to iPhone via this .csv using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer
iPhone/iPad/iPod touch (iOS devices) It's the easiest. Backup contacts in your old iOS devices with mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer as any format, then use this program to import these contacts to your new iOS device.

Part 2: Sync iPhone contacts with address books

The first step to sync iPhone contacts to address book is to export iPhone contacts as CSV or vCard file using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer, which supports exporting Google .csv and two kinds of vCard: vCard File(s) for Outlook and Windows contacts; vCard single file for Google and Apple address books.

For your convenience, we list the solutions below:

Address book How to sync iPhone contacts to address books?
Outlook
Windows contacts
Export iPhone contacts as vCard files using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer, then import contacts into Outlook or Windows address book via those vCard files.
Apple address book Export iPhone contacts as vCard single file using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer, then import contacts into Apple address book via this vCard file.
Google Contacts Export iPhone contacts as vCard single file or Google .csv file using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer, then import contacts into Google Contacts via this vCard single file or Google .csv file.
Address books that support vCard or Goolge .csv Depending on what kind of contact file format those address book support respectively. export iPhone contacts vCard files or vCard single file or Google .csv file using mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer, then import contacts to respective address book.
For instant, fastmail, mail.com, rediffmail, thunderbird and freenet.de support vCard single file
Others For those don't support either vCard or Google .csv, it will be more complicated. However, most of them support Outlook .csv, so first use mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer to export iPhone contacts as vCard and import to Outlook, then use Outlook to export contacts as Outlook .csv, then import them to those address book via Outlook .csv.

Go to this mediAvatar iPhone Contact Transfer or iPhone Contact Transfer for Mac to get a free demo version and start synchronizing iPhone contacts with other cellphones or address books now.