Restore contacts from the iPhone to our iMac?

Recently the hard drive in our iMac crashed and needed replacements. We want to restore the contacts from the iPhone. How do we make that happen?

Copy everything from your backup copy of your computer.
If for some reason you have failed to backup ( not good), then you would have to enter a unique contact in your computer. When you first sync, then you should get the option to merge.

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I have an iPhone 4s that i have been using and have alot of new contacts, on my itunes i have registered an old iphone that i dont use i want to sync my contacts from the iPhone 4s but i cannot get past the page where it introduces you to your new iPhone

I have an iPhone 4s that i have been using and have alot of new contacts, on my itunes i have registered an old iphone that i dont use i want to sync my contacts from the iPhone 4s but i cannot get past the page where it introduces you to your new iPhone

When you see the old number come up in the suggested choices look for a blue arrow to the right of the Contact. Tap the blue arrow and then tap Remove from Recents.

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Syncing contacts from unsynced iphone to new imac

Good morning,
My boss has an iPhone full of contacts. The iPhone has not been synched with a PC or Mac before. He now has a new Mac laptop, he wants to sync the two, without iTunes destroying the content on the iPhone. How can I, a) take a full backup of the iPhone before letting iTunes anywhere near it, and b) get the contacts synced to the iMac so that for that first sync it treats the iPhone as a master and does not delete the contents on the iPhone. Thanks.

Same here, I have an iPhone 4 and a MacBook Pro. On my phone I have 750 contacts and on my laptop only 100!
I can't get the contacts from the phone to the laptop. Nowhere does it say merge, or use replace contacts on laptop.
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Hello,
Initially, I had the same contacts database on MobileMe and on my iPhone.
Both contacts lists originated from my Mac Address Book.
Syncing was not switched on - I simply forgot about it.
Since then, many additional contacts have been added to the data on my iPhone - that's where I casually enter new contacts during the day, not my computer.
Now I realize, I would need to sync my enlarged contacts data from my iPhone to MobileMe.
Or, back to my Mac Address Book.
When I want to switch on syncing, my iPhone says "Syncing with MobileMe will remove your existing contacts from your iPhone".
This is not good!
I want it just the other way around: MobileMe should be overwritten with the iPhone data!
Is this syncing a one-way street? It can not be...
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One thing to try, is to create a new login account on you computer.
Log into that account and open address book.
Create one contact in address book.
Now open itunes.
Once through the initial setup, connect the iphone.
Now go to the info tab and check to sync contacts.
You should get the option to merge data.
If this works, there is still something corrupt in your address book.
Try exporting all you contacts then delete all out of address book.
Quit address book and reopen.
Create a new test contact, then try syncing with iphone.
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Hi
I am trying to sync my contacts on my IPhone to the mac pro but it seems not work.
Any one faced this issue and solved, Please advice.
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If you want your contacts to remain in sync across iOS devices, then you can use any Exchange-type of account. For example, once you have a "clean" set of contacts with no duplicates, you could upload that into iCloud so that any change you make from your iPad would be reflected on your iPhone. You don't have to use iCloud for e-mail since your devices can pull a contact from iCloud for use with GMail or Yahoo.
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Sorry. Maybe I didnt explain my question properly. When I go under ICloud on my phone, I have an option to sync my contacts. Currently, I have the Contacts set to on. If I completely restore my phone and then sign in with my apple ID, will I be able to get my contacts back on my phone? From what I've been told in the past, the only way to get contacts back on your phone, is to restore from a backup via ITunes on your PC. I'm hoping that's changed.

Restore contacts from the iPhone to our iMac?

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