[5 Ways] Sync Outlook Contacts with iPhone 15/14/13/12

As one of the top 10 email clients, Microsoft Outlook always provides you with perfect services for managing email, calendar, and contacts across different devices. If you have important contacts that are saved in your Outlook account, you can access them on your iPhone. How can you make it? Here comes this guide to help you sync Outlook contacts with iPhone in five ways.

• Part 1. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone on computer
  • Way 1. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone by iTunes
  • Way 2. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone via iCloud client
  • Way 3. Transfer Outlook contacts to iPhone with FoneTool
• Part 2. Sync Outlook contacts to iPhone without computer
  • Way 4. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone from iPhone Settings
  • Way 5. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone using Outlook app
• Conclusion

Part 1. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone on computer

You can sync Outlook contacts with iPhone with the aid of a Windows PC. iTunes or the iCloud client help you sync Outlook contacts to iPhone. Optionally, you can also choose to transfer selective Outlook contacts to iPhone directly with FoneTool.

Way 1. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone by iTunes

If you choose to sync contacts by iTunes, please first make sure that your contacts aren’t set to sync with iCloud. If it is on, you need to go to Settings > [your name] > Contacts to turn it off. Here are the steps to sync Outlook contacts with iPhone by iTunes.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer with USB > Launch iTunes > Click the phone icon.

Step 2. From the left bar, locate and choose Info > Check the box of Sync Contacts with > From the dropdown box next to it, choose Outlook.

Step 3. When asked whether you’d like to switch syncing with Outlook, click Switch.

Step 4. Finally, click the Apply button > Tap Done to begin the sync.

Way 2. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone via iCloud client

You can choose to export Outlook contacts to iCloud first and then sync the contacts to iPhone by turning on iCloud Contacts from the Settings app on your iPhone.

Step 1. Export contacts from Outlook to computer
To sync Outlook contacts to iCloud, you need to export contacts from Outlook to computer. Here are the steps.

1. Go to Outlook on your Windows PC > Choose File > Tap Open & Export > Import/Export.

2. Choose Export to a file > Click Next and choose Comma Separated Values (CSV) > Click Contacts > Tap Next to continue.

3. Choose a storage path to save the contacts, tap Next > Click Finish to export Outlook contacts.

4. Finally, convert the format of Outlook contacts from .csv to .vcf with a converter tool like CSV To VCF Converter.

Step 2. Transfer Outlook contacts to iCloud
1. Go to iCloud.com and sign in with your Apple ID and password.

2. Click the Contacts icon > Tap the Gear icon in the lower-left corner > From the opening window, choose Import vCard... to select Outlook contacts from computer.

When it is finished, go to the Settings app on your iPhone > [your name] > iCloud > Toggle on the Contacts option and wait for the sync process to finish.

Way 3. Transfer Outlook contacts to iPhone with FoneTool

You can transfer Outlook contacts to iPhone without iTunes but with FoneTool, a professional iOS data transfer tool for Windows PC users, enables you to transfer Outlook contacts from computer to iPhone directly without syncing.

After exporting contacts from Outlook to computer with the steps in Way 2, download and install FoneTool and transfer Outlook contacts to iPhone in three steps.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer with USB > Launch FoneTool and click Phone Transfer from the homepage. Go to PC to iPhone and click Start Transfer.

Step 2. Click the add icon to browse select the wanted contacts > Click Open to add them to the box > Make sure you’ve added all you want, click Start Transfer to add contacts to iPhone.

When your iPhone is full of important contacts, you may want a reliable way to backup iPhone contacts. The Selective Backup function in FoneTool can give you a hand.

Part 2. Sync Outlook contacts to iPhone without computer

If you need to Outlook on the go, you may prefer to sync Outlook contacts to iPhone without computer. Both signing in with your Outlook account and using Outlook app are nice choices for you.

Way 4. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone from iPhone Settings

Besides iCloud, the sync functions on iPhone also allow you to sync Outlook contacts to iPhone directly. Here’s how to do it.

Step 1. On your iPhone, go to the Settings app > Locate and choose Account & Passwords > Tap Add Account > Select Outlook.com option to log into your account and password.

Step 2. Toggle on the switch of Contacts > Tap Save and wait for the process to complete.

Way 5. Sync Outlook contacts with iPhone using Outlook app

Outlook now releases an app for iOS devices, you can download and install Microsoft Outlook app and follow the steps below to sync Outlook app contacts with iPhone.

Step 1. Open the Microsoft Outlook app and sign in with your account > Tap your profile photo in the upper-left corner > Tap the Gear icon.

Step 2. Choose Office 365 under Account > Toggle on Sync contacts.

Conclusion

That’s all for the five ways to sync Outlook contacts with iPhone. There are four workable way to sync Outlook contacts with iPhone with or without computer. Since the sync process can be influenced by many aspects, the way 3 is highly recommended to transfer wanted Outlook contacts to iPhone directly. If this guide helps you, please share it with others.