Is there any way to copy your contacts to the sim?

Question

Hey! i just wanted to ask if theres any way to transfer iPhone contacts to your sim so that u can use the sim in another phone with contacts in it?

Answer 1

iOS would create two entries if a single contact has two numbers, one for each. Like all other phones do.
Numbers disgarded will be determined by alphabetical order.  Like they would for every phone that also has this limitation privided they selected the industry standard Copy All option. Otherwise they can pick and choose from their contact list which ones they want to copy if they have more than the maximum allowed phone numbers that can be stored on a sim card. Which is also an industry standard option.
Average consumers will have to learn how sim card storage works via google for instance or opening the manual instructions on the iPhone or by speaking to their carrier who are more than happy to explain to the customer that by putting the contacts on their sim card they can use their servers to push these numbers to a new sim in the event their current one becomes faulty for whatever reason and they decided to get another manufacturers phone as a consequence.
He/she will think "Well, atleast I managed to keep whopping huge 500 phone numbers. Saved myself a few hours there."
Next question?
PS. Apart from facebook fanatics who don't actually know 90% of the people they friended, do you know anyone with more than 500 phone numbers? Like most I know alot of people, and like a lot of other people I work for a pretty big company and have a company phone... I haven't managed to hit that magic number yet on either of the phones and I can't think of anyone who I know that has. No doubt there might be people out there with more than 500 phone numbers in their contact list but then they find themselves in the same boat as every other person on the entire planet that uses these sim cards in a commerically available phone.
They haven't lost out on anything by gaining this feature by not being able to create an exact replica of the iPhone Contact list, but they will gain something by seeing it introduced because I am willing to say that the iPhone is the only smartphone/mobilephone on the market within the last decade missing this feature.
I would also like to point out that out of all the topics created in this section of the forum within the last 24 hours this is one of the most viewed by visitors and thus this question has stoked interest in knowing how to get this feature working... except they learnt harshly that it doesn't exist on their phone. I would imagine there were a couple of "Eh?!" moments when they found that out. As for what they thought when they saw someone doing everything he could to stop it from coming to iPhone, I cannot say. Because like them I cannot understand why such a feature would be so vigorously opposed, especial;ly when that sim contact list can be transferred between different carriers when using a PAC code to transfer your old number to a new contract with a different company.