How to Import Google Contacts to iCloud

There's no way to sync Google Contacts and iCloud contacts but exporting and importing is very fast and is the best workaround.

Even when you turn on Google Contacts on your iPhone, those contacts won't automatically be transferred or moved into iCloud. Instead, you'll need to go to the web interface and do a manual export and import.

[ZacCoventry]

Thank you for the clear, concise tutorial! This is exactly what I am trying to accomplish.

[kamq]

Honestly THANK YOU so much, just been on to Apple support for nearly an hour, and the guy had no clue to a certain point. He said that all my contacts that I had added on over the last 3-4 years were synced to my gmail account and not icloud. Ok that was a start, so I realised the issue but after that it was my job to do the homework, as he said we dont support Google, fair play, So once again THANK YOU after seeing your Vid all is good

[MustBeAWeeb]

Thank you so much for this!! I spent a good 30 minutes on google trying to figure this out lol. Worked like a charm, first try. Thanks again friend!!

[sknadimulhaque]

Your video helped me get my contacts synced to my phone and icloud. Thanks mate. But I troubleshooted and found a solution for your problem. The error message that you get is because icloud cannot import large volumes of contacts at one go, there are file size limits and google's file creation limits. I had 2088 contacts to be synced but everytime only approximately 500-600 contacts got copied from the vcard created by google contacts. I went ahead and did the whole thing in batches of 300 contacts a time and it worked like a charm without any error. Just reduce the number of contacts in the vcard per batch if you get any error. Thanks again.

[_smferrari_]

Thank goodness… I’m looking at my 2 phones/gmails/clouds & missing contacts between them thinking there’s definitely an easier way than manually 😳 thank you!!

[amitsingh]

Thanks a Ton for this video, I was able to accomplish in 2 mins

[fudailwaseem]

on the newewr icloud contacts website it dosent have a setting for importting contacts. is there a way around this?

[sandeepkark]

Thanks i can finally see fullscreen contact pictures

[nickr]

worked like a charm. thanks for the help. :)

[deity.m]

I am getting an error unable to import vcard in icloud contacts

[sauravmisraz]

i am getting the exact same error but it mostly not copying contacts . what to do in that case?

[boomerang]

Thank you. Clear and to the pint. Thanks for creating and sharing.👍

[giacomocongedo]

There's absolutely no way to do that via iPhone?

Tried the vCard method you showed, got the same error, some contacts has been imported but the majority of the contacts I have on Google just haven't been imported :(

My aim is to save my contacts to iCloud and then remove the Google Account from the iPhone, so that I only have iCloud active on the phone. Any tips?