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Import contacts from your SIM to iPhone (finally!!)

28 November 2007 165 Comments

Update : Starting iPhone firmware 2.0, Apple solved the SIM import issue by neatly integrating into the iPhone officially! Look for the option under Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Import SIM Contacts

Apple did a terrible job with SIM contacts – why wasn’t it not implemented when an independent developer can release that for free! Anyways, Apple did a great job with iPhone sans installer. Till SIMport was released, the only option we had to import SIM contacts were to either use an other phone – > Upload contacts Yahoo! Go/GooSync Contacts and so on… all of them needed another phone to do so but not anymore. You can now import SIM contacts to your iPhone just like that!! Insert the new sim in your iPhone, activate it using iNDependence/iBrickr/iDemocracy in case it reports for a foreign SIM!

How do we install it??
Launch installer.app and look for iFon International packages. If it is not found, go to sources(top right) -> add source -> install.ifon.no and save!! Now you should be able to install SIMport. You are all set now 🙂

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Update : A new shinier looking app (iSIM) for doing pretty much like SIMport was released recently. Though GUI and automation is good in this app – steer away from it unless you have some bucks to spare! It ain’t free. SIMport is the way to go!!

165 Comments »

  • vanessa said:

    how do i download it

  • kkiran said:

    With recent firmware for iPhone, Apple implemented the SIM importing natively. Go to settings…

  • Anna said:

    how do you transfer you contacts of your iphone to your sim card? As i have now got a blackberry and need my contacts of my iphone 3G ?
    Thanks

  • Anna said:

    how do you transfer you contacts of your iphone to your sim card? As i have now got a blackberry and need my contacts of my iphone 3G ?

  • kkiran said:

    Your best bet would be to use Google Sync for Blackberry, send the contacts over to Google's server and then sync them back to your iPhone using Google sync (setting up Google account on iPhone) for iPhone.

  • Sohail said:

    dumbasses…..the question being asked is HOW TO TRANSFER CONTACTS FROM IPHONE TO THE SIM? AGAIN FROM THE IPHONE TO THE SIM? Importing contacts from SIM have been done and implemented a long time ago, retards !

  • kkiran said:

    The title says contacts from SIM to iPhone. If you want to transfer from iPhone to SIM, you could have asked for it in a nicer way!

  • above_this_moron said:

    Did you read anything above you? You are clearly the dumbass. The question is HOW DO I GET CONTACTS FROM THE SIM TO THE PHONE… dumbass

  • Bhupenn said:

    How to import iphone contacts to the pc.
    Each time i sync, all iphone contacts vanish and is replaced with contacts on the pc.
    Please help.
    Rgds.
    Bhupen.

  • Kiran said:

    You will have to check your sync settings in iTunes – is there a two way sync/merge or just one way from pc…

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  • Phonedude said:

    You dorks don't need a phone. You need remedial reading.

  • paul knapper said:

    i have a new i phone 3gs how do i get my contacts from my sim as my phone says no contacts

  • Alisha said:

    HELP…. How do i import my photos from sim card to iphone

  • Kiran said:

    Photos stored on a sim card? I have never come across such a sim card, atleast in the USA. Is it sdcard on another phone?

  • kei yamashita said:

    if i import the sim contacts it is easy to delete all if i want??help me plz. tnx

  • iPhone Case said:

    This is perhaps the most useful entry I have every read. If everyone followed this, there would be half as little disappointments.

  • aanbiedingen said:

    When I copy the SIM contacts only a couple are copied. Where can I get this installer app? I used redsn0w.

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