How To Get Outlook Contacts To iPhone

Submitted by techrar on Friday, 10 July 2009One Comment

iPhone is the current trend in the mobile world. Many people buy it and go down with the problem in merging a new iphone with their respective contacts and calendar from the applications like Microsoft Outlook. This article shows a tip may a trick to merge the contacts with your iPhone without any trouble.

If you are have a problem in merging the contact with the phone, then follow the following steps to get your processed information where you want it to be located:

STEP – 1: Connect the I-phone to the computer. Make sure that the iTunes is running. Select your phone under the category of devices in the iTunes left pane, if only necessary.

STEP – 2: Set the options in the iTunes summary tab at the bottom side, according to your wish. Uncheck the automatically sync when the iPhone is connected. Do not forget to select the manually manage music and videos.

STEP – 3: Info tab is clicked. The box at the top of the contacts section is selected, only if you want the iTunes to have that information with the phone. Manage according to your own needs about how to control the organization of the data. There are no restrictions in controlling the data.

STEP – 4: The above steps are repeated for the Calendar and other desired sections. Click Apply button.

When the above four steps, if followed properly then that will automatically initiate the synching process. If the synching process does not initiate, take time and the Sync button will appear. Now click on the Sync button and the synching process will start.

If you still find problem in synching the information into the iPhone, then check out the following steps:

ITunes what you have, should be the latest. So, make sure that the iTunes are updated. If not, Go to the iTunes Help menu and check for the updates.

Select the Edit option in the iTunes, then click on the Devices tab and select the Reset the Sync History. Resetting the Sync History is a must for achieving good results.

In the Microsoft Outlook, disable the Non-Apple add-ins. This is done through deselecting the boxes in the Add-Ins dialog box. The Add-Ins dialog box opening is different in Outlook 2003 and in Outlook 2007. Hence, have a proper knowledge about the programs’ instruction help files. If necessary, refer them.

It is recommended to have two users in the Vista’s User Account. If the Syncing process does not initiate, log off the current account then log into the new account and then try out the syncing process again.

Check the installation process of iTunes. If possible, Uninstall and then Re-install the iTunes.

If all the above steps also does not work then check for the faulty account entered in the Microsoft Outlook. The corrupt entries in the outlook have an adverse effect on the Synching problems. Browse the entire account list in the Outlook and check for the garbled names. Delete the data when found corrupted and then restart the Synching Process.

There is a free version of the Contacts Scrubber. Contact Scrubber is a program for the Microsoft Outlook created by the Team Scope Software. This program gets involved in the contact search and presents to the user about the duplicate or corrupted entries. Selective entries can be rewritten and deleted. The first version of the Contacts Scrubber can process up to 1000 items at a time.

Therefore, a Phone without contacts is useless. Follow the above mentioned steps to get your contacts from the Microsoft Outlook into your iPhone in very quick time. Also the combination of the above mentioned steps also brings you the success of transferring the data from the PC to the iPhone.

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