My Contacts Backup Reviews

by Aifae

I downloaded the free version of MyContactsBackup but was prompted for payment option information. I assume this is for the in-app advertisements for other apps available to purchase.

I purposely chose “None” because I had no intention of purchasing anything. After I selected submit I got an instant text notification saying that iTunes just charged my account for $4.99.

Nowhere did it say that I was going to be charged for downloading the so-called FREE app, nor what the price would be if I did. This is unacceptable. I will not recommend MyContactsBackup to anyone.

by CTRinBNA

I loved MyContactsBackup, though I had not used it for the past several months. Today I decided it was time to backup my Contacts, and after checking the settings to ensure all the vCard options were enabled, I did a backup. All seemed to go well until I checked the email with the backup . . . it left out ALL OF THE NOTES I HAD IN THE NOTES SECTION OF MY CONTACTS! I have tried disabling all of the options and re-enabling them, deleting MyContactsBackup and reinstalling it, doing a hard restart of my iPhone - Yet The Issue Remains. Please FIX the issue!!!

by Yo13yo

I love the concept but it is way to easy to delete your contacts and leave a mess of things. I know I’m not Steve Jobs but I just removed the contacts on MyContactsBackup itself not knowing it was taking my actual phones contacts. I tried to restore them from my previous backup but if you keep it up to date it doesn’t matter. Still trying to salvage my 482 contacts and I’ve hit a dead end. Thanks to MyContactsBackup I have to now be on the phone for hours with Apple care or make a visit to the local store. FYI I’ve never left a bad review like this before and it doesn’t even make me feel better. Don’t use MyContactsBackup or be careful unlike myself.

by Rahulkhosla

I successfully backed up and emailed the backup to myself. But here’s my question :

I did this to find an easier way to delete unwanted contacts vs painfully doing so one by one on the iPhone; nice I have pruned the list, then I want to restore that edited list back as my contact list in iPhone.

How do I do that ?

by GetOfMyInyernet

Super easy! For quite a while I’ve been living with contacts split between several accounts and since they weren’t on iCloud I couldn’t migrate them. Most of my contacts were tied to an email account I don’t have anymore but I couldn’t delete the account for fear of losing the contacts so I was just constantly being bugged by password requests because my phone kept trying to connect to the deleted account. This solved everything in like ten seconds.

1. Unsync iCloud contacts and delete local copies
2. Backup remaining contacts on other accounts
3. Turn sync back on and set iCloud to default contacts
4. Load backed up contacts

I haven’t tried it yet but I think this might also be a good way to automatically remove duplicates without losing unique contacts. There were several contacts that I had three instances of and I went through manually deleting all the extras. But when you load the backed up contacts it first asks if you want to merge them with existing ones and then it creates new contacts for the ones it doesn’t recognize. Backup all your contacts then stop syncing everything except iCloud and restore the backup to consolidate them all. Just an idea.

by Alissaw

Couldn’t get iTunes contacts to sync properly and was worried about losing my contacts when I removed my work email from my phone. Was sent MyContactsBackup by a friend and was skeptical. Worked like a champ in 2 minutes. Just Thrilled. Many Thanks!

by Lisitamar

I honestly was just giving up. I did not think of THIS method I was used to back when I had other smartphones. So many years passed that I forgot about apps like these. Today, I searched various websites throughout the course of a whole day, tried countless methods, and nothing via iCloud/Bluetooth/Airdrop/syncing would work. ALL methods lead to a limited amount of contacts - those that I see on 'Contacts' in the Mac but on the iPhone there's MANY more. I don't have a USB-C adapter yet to connect iPhone and Mac... so no third-party apps worked. After tweaking with Mac and iPhone settings, I achieved nothing. Finally at 11:10pm, MyContactsBackup imported 1.2k contacts in less than 3 seconds.

by Capt.Hookdaddy

MyContactsBackup is Great! I had a unique situation where I couldn’t use my iCloud or iTunes backup cuz I needed to send my contacts to one iCloud account to another. This compressed all my contacts into a vCard and you just email it to yourself. Transferring over 1,200 contacts took less than 30 seconds!! Best fix! Thank you!!

by Bdayala

I have most of my contacts under my college email—- i never deleted it from my email app. Since it was purged by my college— i wasnt able to sync with icloud, bluetooth (too many contacts) or sign in with that email.
Save me from a headache!!

Says what it does under 5 mins!

by Kbone202

I love MyContactsBackup. I just used it to import my phone contacts into icloud so that I could share them across devices. This fixed a syncing problem I have been dealing with for over 2 years!!!

I used MyContactsBackup ’s wifi feature to download the backup onto my computer. Couldn't be simpler or more effective. Thank you!!!

by Hiker9

Saved my iPhone contacts including notes field into a .csv file. So far have opened it google contacts. They all appear to be there but have not go through list in depth. Took a couple minutes to save the file. Seamlessly emailed to myself. Funny how well it works for some and not others.

by Davetastic!

I spent over an hour trying to backup my contacts and move them from Outlook to iCloud. The info on the Apple forums and MS forums is outdated for the latest versions of the apps.

I downloaded MyContactsBackup and had everything backed up and consolidated in under 5 min. Highly recommend!

by 123whoCares

Wow, downloaded MyContactsBackup , gave it access to my contacts, exported my contacts and sent to myself by email. Default was a VCard, didn’t work for me. Changed it to Excel and sent the email again and that is it. Simple and easy. If MyContactsBackup lets me edit the Excel contacts and the import them back in, that would be amazing.
Great easy app that is very useful.

by Zyll1957

Could not be happier with MyContactsBackup. With multiple contact groups I could not get iCloud to backup my contacts. Also, did not rely on iTunes backup since you can not read the format. I needed an easy way to backup to vCard and .csv so I had a hard copy of my contacts. Within second of downloading MyContactsBackup I had a full list of my contacts in a spreadsheet. Now I can organize and update my contacts and re-import them into iCloud. Thank You!

by Dtsm888

For some reason, my contact list on iMac displayed all vCards/contacts (over 1000) but each card was empty. Google search and found it app.

So i downloaded app, backed up and emailed to myself and then imported and replaced with backup. No good, but at least had backup as all my other devices were ok! Then imported again and also went to preferences settings to delete my gmail account contacts. Not sure what happened but now iMac contacts set up properly -- thank you!

by Kirkbus

So, I quit my job and my company shut down access to email. Ok. No sweat. The shut down prohibited me from transferring contacts to and from the cloud. It was discouraging and I was afraid the next step was calling my old company and explaining the situation. Nah. Well, I found MyContactsBackup and voila! From my old phone, I loaded all 1079 contacts in MyContactsBackup and emailed one vCard to my gmail account. Opened email, opened attachment, and BOOM! All contacts appeared and loaded into my new phone. Bam! Boom! POW! Nice work app developers!!

by Kidiu

My iCloud wasn’t syncing with my contacts, no matter what I did. So I saw a suggestion online to use MyContactsBackup, and it worked! I was able to finally sync my contacts to my iCloud, so now I can see my contacts on my iPad too!

I was worried that it still wouldn’t sync any changes made to those contacts, but it does! Any changes I make to contacts that were manually imported are updated with iCloud immediately when I make the changes on my iPhone now! This is a lifesaver! Thanks so much!

by PeteVuu

So easily backed up my contacts to my email, literally within seconds. Then was downloaded right to my address book on my iMac for even more safekeeping, just as seamlessly(have your iPhone plugged into your computer of course). Forget about the anxiety of upgrading your iPhone anymore, especially if you forgot, or even want to change your Apple ID. Excellent app that does what it says it’s gonna do, no strings attached; which is unfortunately not so easy to find anymore.

by Bryant Brazeal

I had hundreds of contacts in my iPhone associated to an old work exchange account. Whenever I tried to delete the exchange account, I’d lose the contacts; so, I had to leave the old exchange account until MyContactsBackup changed everything. I downloaded MyContactsBackup , made a backup (less than 1 minute), emailed the backup to my gmail account, deleted the exchange account, and tapped the .vcf file in my email and “viola”...my contacts were all back. I couldn’t have asked for something easier and more efficient. Great app!!!

by Americanidollover5

This product works well and is easy to use. After opening click the backup button and then email the list to yourself. If you need to restore, just click the email and it will even give you the option to add them new or merge them with any contacts out there.

by Teacheronabike

...to know my contacts are available quickly via email. If my phone disappears, no need to head to the AT&T store for help. I can access my email from someone else’s phone to get phone numbers. I haven’t got them memorized, of course!

by Austin #67

So happy with MyContactsBackup. It was free, it was hassle free, and it worked quickly. Finally am able to delete old email accounts and keep all the contacts

by Catlee579

somebody at some 800# gave me MyContactsBackup info b/c there's NEVER been a guarantee fm ANYONE that my contacts could be restored in any way shape or form. i happen to have contacts in iphone format at present. however they're stored, i want to be able to get to exactly how i have them entered in case my phone blows up or that cloud bursts or disappears. your app saves it all EXACTLY how i entered all of it. it doesn't shuffle anyone's names/#s. it is what it says it is. in a world that lies at every opportunity, i can have what i want‼️
thank you!!!
i think i’ve sent this once but it’s worth it again‼️ clk

by Wejus

I am one of the many people whose iCloud says it's full when it isn't this was literally the only way I could move my contacts from phone to phone without doing a full restore. Thank you for MyContactsBackup. WiFi download option was key.