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A quick look at Contact Magic for iPhone - Export contacts to .csv - Mark - 22-08-2011
A quick look at Contact Magic for iPhone - Export contacts to .csv
A really quick look at the "Contact Magic" application for iPhone. I was jailbreaking my iPhone thus needed to back stuff up before restoring it - this is the best free application I could find for an unjailbroken iPhone.
1) Download the Application from the market place, just search Contact Magic. Once installed, open the app and you'll be greeted with a loading screen. (Amazing graphics included)
![[Image: contact-magic-01.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-01.PNG)
2) A brief overview of what the App does.
Quote:Contact Magic allows you to quickly create a backup of your contacts data which you can email yourself for use in other systems.
Your data is exported as a standard CSV file.
![[Image: contact-magic-02.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-02.PNG)
3) A quick warning, just click OK.
![[Image: contact-magic-03.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-03.PNG)
4) You'll be presented with a list of all your contacts.
![[Image: contact-magic-04.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-04.PNG)
5) Tap all the contacts that you wish to backup. (A blue tick will appear next to them) Click Done.
![[Image: contact-magic-05.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-05.PNG)
6) It'll then compose an email with the contacts attached in a .csv file. Send the email to one of your email addresses and the jobs a gooden.
![[Image: contact-magic-06.PNG]](http://markwood.co.cc/donotdelete/contact-magic-app-for-iphone/contact-magic-06.PNG)
Please note you'll need to set up an email account on your phone before hand.
Cons: I've not yet found a way to import my contact so it looks like I'm going to have to enter then all manually.
RE: A quick look at Contact Magic for iPhone - Export contacts to .csv - Drumm - 23-08-2011
You could load them into gmail and sync gmail contacts with your device.