
Hello. I have an iPhone X and I wanted to be able to transfer all my contacts off the phone to my computer directly, without having to go through iTunes or iCloud. Can someone help please? Thanks in advance!
It could be time-consuming to build a long list of contacts with all the names, photos, phone numbers and email addresses. So if you are going to change your iOS device, put copying your contacts from iPhone on the top of your to do list. We all know that both iTunes and iCloud lacking the selectively backing up features. Besides, iTunes can be a bit tricky to use if you are not careful. The good thing is you can easily do that without the use of any cloud-based services or iTunes. Fortunately, there’s a professional iOS backup tool call iFonebox had the whole thing taken care of.
One great thing about using iFonebox is that even if you lose your device or change to a new phone, you will never lose your important contacts. They are kept as Html and CSV files within your computer. You can open the files in Excel to view all the contacts on your PC or Mac. It’s designed to help you deal with up to 17 file types of data such as notes, text messages, photos, videos, voice memos, reminders, events in calendar, safari bookmarks, call records, WeChat data, WhatsApp data and many more. The following are some of its useful features:
- Quite easy to use all thanks to its user-friendly interface
- Three excellent working modes: recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup
- It’s suitable for a large variety of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
- The trial version allows you to view all the recoverable data for free
- You can choose target data to back up instead of back the entire device up
- It’s 100% safe and the progress can be finished in a while
iFonebox is fully compatible with Win and Mac, you need to download the program from our official website or here, please make sure to download the right version. Then let’s take part in its detailed instructions to move iPhone contacts to computer.
Step one: Launch iFonebox
Connect your iPhone to the computer, in this interface, you'll see “Next” in blue area, click it to continue. It’s necessary to enable the flight mode and keep the USB cable connected stable during the progress.

Step two: Scan data
It will scan automatically after you click the “Contacts” to begin the process. The duration depends on the amount of your data so it might take your some time, please wait patiently.

Step three: Back up data
Once the scan is complete, a list of contents will show up on your program interface. Now you can recover them, choose the items you want to back up and click “Recover to pc”.
