How to Export iPhone Contacts to Gmail

Keeping your address book up to date is essential both for work and for your home life. This is also true of your iPhone's Contacts app, which stores all your phone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses and other details about your contacts. Syncing your contacts to your Gmail account ensures that your address book is always concurrent on your iPhone and on your computer. The iPhone's Contacts app can be linked to Gmail using iTunes or by an automatic wireless synchronization.

Syncing to Gmail Via ITunes

Step 1

Connect your iPhone to your computer using its USB cable. ITunes automatically launches when your computer detects that an iPhone has been connected.

Step 2

Select your iPhone from the "Devices" section in the left-hand column in iTunes and then open the "Info" tab.

Step 3

Check the "Sync Contacts With" box and select "Google Contacts" from the drop-down menu to the immediate right.

Step 4

Click the "Configure" button and type the username and password of your Google account in the relevant boxes. Click the "OK" button to confirm.

Step 5

Click the "Apply" button in the lower right corner of the iTunes window. The data in your iPhone's Contacts app is exported to your online Gmail account.

Syncing to Gmail Wirelessly

Step 1

Launch the Settings app on your iPhone and tap the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" button. Tap the "Add Account" button, followed by "Microsoft Exchange."

Step 2

Type your Google account email address in the "Email" and "Username" boxes, and your Google account password in the "Password" box. Tap the "Next" button.

Step 3

Tap the "Cancel" button in the "Unable to Verify Certificate" dialog box that appears. This is not an error, but a part of the setup process.

Step 4

Type "m.google.com" in the "Server" box that is now present when you return to the "Exchange" page. Tap the "Next" button, and your iPhone successfully verifies your Google account connection.

Step 5

Slide the "Contacts" switch to "On" and then tap the "Done" button. If prompted, tap the "Keep on My iPhone" button to prevent your existing contacts data from being overwritten. Your iPhone's Contacts app is now synced to your Gmail account.

Tips

• When linked through iTunes, your Contacts app and Gmail account updates whenever you manually synchronize.
• When syncing wirelessly, your Contacts app and Gmail account automatically update whenever a change is made either on your iPhone or within your Google account.
• Switching on iCloud synchronization doesn't affect the link between your Contacts app and Gmail account. Your iPhone also syncs your Contacts to iCloud, creating a second backup of your data independent from your Google account.

Required Items

• iPhone USB cable

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