How to Effectively Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a great tool to have access to your mails offline. In addition to emails, Outlook also has an option to save complete contacts information. If you are using iPhone, you can transfer contacts from iPhone to Outlook so that all your contacts details along with mail IDs are handy on your PC. The article will deal with the best and easy ways to sync iPhone contacts with Outlook.

• Part 1. Easiest Way to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook
• Part 2. Common Way to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook

Part 1. Easiest Way to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook

Having all your iPhone contacts to Outlook will be a great way to get access to contact details while working offline with your mails. Dr.Fone - Phone Manager is an answer to all your queries when you want to import contacts from iPhone to outlook. This wonderful software allows to transfer all or needed contacts to Microsoft Outlook with just a few steps. Dr.Fone - Phone Manager is a complete phone manager that works perfectly well with Android and iPhone devices. The software allows managing iPhone photos, videos, contacts and other data without any need for iTunes.

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Steps to sync iPhone contacts to Outlook with Dr.Fone - Phone Manager:

Step 1: Launch Dr.Fone - Phone Manager on your PC and connect iPhone with your PC using a USB cable. On the main interface, click "Phone Manager".

Step 2: Select the desired contacts and export them.

On the main interface, click "Information" tab and the list of contacts on iPhone will open. Select the desired contacts, click the “Export” icon and select “to Outlook 2010/2013/2016” from the drop down menu.

The selected contacts will be successfully exported to Outlook.

Now the above is the complete solution to sync iPhone contacts to Outlook.

You may wondering:

"How to sync contacts from Outlook to iPhone exactly?"

Do not worry. Read on.

Dr.Fone - Phone Manager works the other way round as well – transferring contacts from Outlook to iPhone. If you have lost your iPhone or lost all your phone contacts due to some reason, importing them through Outlook using Dr.Fone - Phone Manager is a great way. Thus, it can be said that Dr.Fone - Phone Manager allows complete syncing of Outlook contacts to iPhone.

Steps to sync Outlook contacts to iPhone

Step 1: Launch Dr.Fone - Phone Manager on your PC and connect iPhone with your PC using a USB cable.

Step 2: Click “Information” tab from the main software interface. The list of contacts present on iPhone will be shown. Click the “Import” icon and select “from Outlook 2010/2013/2016” from the drop down menu.

Step 3: The number of contacts detected on Outlook will be shown. Click “Import” to start the syncing process.

Thus, Dr.Fone - Phone Manager proves to be a great way to completely sync iPhone contacts with Outlook bidirectionally which iTunes can't do. So you'd better download Dr.Fone and have a try firstly, I am sure you will love it.

Features of this method:

• Allows to export selective or all contacts from iPhone to Outlook, and vice versa.
• The method does not affect original contacts on your iPhone.

Part 2. Common Way to Sync iPhone Contacts to Outlook

When it comes to iPhone or iOS devices, iTunes is a solution to all issues, and the same holds true when you are looking for the options to export iPhone contacts to Outlook. The selected contacts or the complete contacts list on your iPhone can be exported to Outlook using iTunes through a quick, free and easy process.

Steps to sync iPhone contacts with outlook with iTunes

Step 1: Connect iPhone to your PC using a USB cable. Launch iTunes and the connected iPhone will be displayed as icon.

Step 2: On iTunes interface, click "iPhone" icon. Under "Settings" on the left panel, click “Info” tab.

On the right panel, click “Sync Contacts with” and select “Outlook” from the drop down menu. Click “All contacts” if you want to sync all the contacts of iPhone or click “Selected groups” if you wish to sync only selected contacts from a group. Click “Apply” to initiate the process.

Pros and cons of the method:

Pros:

• No need of any third party software installation.
• The method is free to use.

Cons:

• All the contacts including the previous ones are synced all time.
• The original contacts are covered with new exported ones.