[bee505r]

I recently got the new iPhone 4 but it doesn't have my contacts and old text messages etc. I previously had the iPhone 3gs. When I upgraded my iphone 3gs to iphone 4 they gave me a new sim card but it was basically a replica of my old sim card (eg.same number).

[green7o7o]

picass, on 01 September 2011 - 03:05 AM, said:

You can do with your itunes for it you have to put them on your itunes.iTunes will backup everything on the iPhone.
In iTunes, with the iPhone selected on the left, click the Info tab and make sure Contact syncing is enabled.

all you should have dne was backup the 3gs and then setup the new iphone 4 as the old iphone as itunes stores all this info and not the sim card.

This post has been edited by rgreen4: 01 September 2011 - 04:34 AM
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[Ivymin]

winniec, on 20 December 2012 - 10:08 PM, said:

iOS does allow importing of contacts from a SIM card (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Import SIM Contacts), but iOS does not store contacts on a SIM card, so if you upgrade from one iPhone to another, there is nothing to import from the SIM card, because there is nothing stored on it to begin with. The correct way to transfer data from one iPhone to another is via iTunes backup/restore.

Ahh! A nice, clear carefully-composed post. A pleasure to read without any head-scratching needed as to what is meant (not necessarily in this thread). And with helpful information to try to solve the problem. Happy to note this answer for future reference.

This post has been edited by rgreen4: 01 January 2013 - 02:18 PM
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[banpreetkaur]

Thanks for this info

[jodiety11]

Great. The information is very useful for the Apple users. Ths.

[Richaldanny]

I use the gmail to sync the contract on the sim card at first and then import the data to itunes.

[lasertek]

Create a backup via iTunes. This way, you can have already sync the data to your phone after.