iPhone Contacts to Excel (for your Data Quality)

If you want to fix the Data Quality of your iPhone Contacts (and hopefully one day not use your iPhone as a master Address Book):

Outlook (Windows App) is much more comfortable for all your Data Quality, and if you really need to you can go to Excel (on Windows) !!
 

Couldn't get [iCloud on Windows] going:

I couldn't actually get the syncing on my iDevice TO iCloud TO Outlook ~

I think this may have been most likely due to not using Apple exclusively for e-mail, smart phone contacts ...

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Using iCloud for the Web

This diagram summaries a sequence of Importing and Exporting into various data sources and / or flat file formats. 

 

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A few handy tips:

1. Using Outlook tends to do a better job of keeping the formatting than using a straight
   Google Contacts -> .csv or vCard
2. Using Labels in Google Contacts to get around having to create a brand new Google Account just for importing iPhone vCards.

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Give opening .vcf files in Visual Studio a try;

... Sending vCards back to your iPhone

If you get stuck have a quick Google of
"Import vCards to iPhone"

Likely the easiest or most common way: Via iCloud (Web)

This is essentially the reverse of the steps outlined in the future post:

https://optimise-performance.blogspot.com/2021/11/iphone-contacts-to-excel.html

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Hence you can take your clean up Contacts from Excel / Outlook / .csv back onto your iPhone via VCF files.

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So YES, you can get your iPhone Contacts into Excel, clean them up and push them back onto your phone again!