Unable to merge contact lists on iPhone

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Unable to merge contact lists on iPhone

When I first got my iPhone I didn't know what I was doing, and my contact list was called SDC. It's not an iCloud acct, it was an old POP email account, but it is now a MS Exchange email account.

Now that I am using iCould to sync everything, I can't find any way to send over the SDC contacts list to my Mac.

What I really want is to merge them all into my iCloud contacts list, so every thing will be synced automatically.

Can anyone tell me how I can efficiently export or merge a contact list not on iCloud?

p.s. Because that email account is now an exchange instead of a POP , I cannot seem to renter it for Apple's Mail account (which I had to redownload as I deleted it once I switched to MS Exchange.

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iPhone 13 Pro Max

Posted on Feb 3, 2025 12:11 PM

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Answer 1

KiltedTim

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Feb 4, 2025 8:41 AM in response to SergioQ

You can’t do that. Exchange accounts are sandboxed from all other accounts. The data on the Exchange account is owned by Exchange. You can’t merge it with another account or export it.

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Feb 3, 2025 10:04 PM in response to SergioQ

You can't use an iPhone to do that.

Unlike some Android devices, contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

Try to export the contacts from google mail on a web browser. During Export select export as vCard and then

log in to https://www.icloud.com using your Apple ID credentials Tap Contacts app > Settings > Import vCard.

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SergioQ Author

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Feb 4, 2025 8:36 AM in response to SravanKrA

You need a third-party app to convert vCard file to CSV

In the end this is what I did. I know this isn't the place to gripe, but they've made certain things way too convoluted

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Feb 3, 2025 10:05 PM in response to SergioQ

Log in to https://www.icloud.com using your Apple ID credentials Tap Contacts app > Settings > Export vCard.

iCloud will import or export only vCards.

You need a third-party app to convert vCard file to CSV as an example Yahoo will only import using CSV file --> Import, export or print contacts in Yahoo Mail - SLN28070

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SergioQ Author

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Feb 4, 2025 3:38 AM in response to SravanKrA

It was my own email server located remotely, my own domain name.

but I can no longer ebeter that email address into iPhone because it uses it now for a MS exchange account

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Unable to merge contact lists on iPhone

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