Any way to move contacts between groups on iPhone?

Question

Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups.

Seems like an oversight that I would have to go back to my Mac, or delete a contact and manually recreate their card in a different group, in order to do this.

Answer 1

This cannot be done on the phone. You can sync your contacts to a Mac and do the changes from Address Book on the Mac.

You can also do this via iCloud.com.

Answer 2

1. Go to "groups" in "Contacts" and uncheck all the groups except the one the contact you want to move is in.

2. Search for the contact you want to move and "Share" the contact to your own email address or phone # via text.

3. Click "edit" on the contact you just sent and delete it.

4. Go back to Groups and uncheck the group the contact was sent from.

5. Leave only the Group you want the contact in checked.

6. Go to your email/text and import the new contact. It will automatically be added to the only active group which you selected.

7. Go back to Contact Groups and select all the groups you want showing on your phone.

Voila!

Answer 3

Use Orbi Tools. Can be downloaded from App Store.

Answer 4

For the specific case of moving contacts to Gmail/Google, you can move them on the web using iCloud.com and google.com/contacts.

The basic flow is: select the contacts you want to move in iCloud, export them as a VCF file, then import that VCF file in Google Contacts. Then, if you would like your device to stick with Google Contacts, in your iOS device turnoff Contacts sync for iCloud so that future contacts don't end up there (and end up in Google Contacts instead).

Details are in this article Get all your iCloud contacts into Gmail, easily.

Answer 5

Moving contacts between groups cannot be done via iPhone. You will have to sync your iPhone via iTunes and ensure that contact sync in enabled. The following process can also be used with your GMail account instead of Exchange.

To move the existing contacts, follow these steps:

1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac.
2. Open iTunes and look for your iPhone under devices in the left navigation section.
3. Click on your iPhone to view iPhone sync settings.
4. Click on the Info tab at the top of the sync section.
5. On the Info tab, select the checkbox next to 'Sync address book contacts'
6. Click Sync on the bottom right corner of the sync section.

The above instructions will sync your iPhone contacts to your Address Book on Mac.

1. Open Address Book.
2. Add your exchange account, if you have not done it already.
3. After that you can move your iPhone contacts to your exchange account by dragging-and-dropping.

You should also configure the iPhone settings so that newly created contacts are created in the correct place, so you don't need to repeat this process,

1. Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Scroll to 'Contacts' section
3. Tap on the 'Default Account' tab and select your exchange account.

You should be set now!

Answer 6

i think i have a 👌perfect solution for this.

Let me explain the issue, I have an iphone 6 which is now 5 years old and in all this time i have changed multiple jobs, i had a company exchange account and at some point all my contacts were being saved into that account. i moved on, they deleted my account so i could not login and my most of the contacts lived in that group. It complained about the password to that exchange account which i ignored and it still worked. But comes 2020. i move on to a new iphone, i realise my icloud can not help, itunes is out of game no more even supported on catalina ios. I came across this app on apple store for iphone MCbackup it works wonder, no setup, no fee, no subscription, no activation nothing I simply gave access to contacts, it copied everything from all the groups and gave me option to send a csv or vcard which i then sent to my email. Afterwards i now use only gmail for contacts and then easily imported this csv into it.

Now all historical contacts are working for me. :) i hope this helps you all.

Answer 7

As noted above changes can be made via Mac or iCloud web GUI. I use Contaqs.app on my iPhone to make Group/Contact edits. Within a Contact I can remove Group relationships, in a Group I can add Contacts, or with a Contact selected I can drag/drop to a group to add it.

There are other 3rd party solutions, this is just one I've used that continues to be maintained and is useful in other ways.