Yes, that is an option but only a limited amount of information can be stored on a SIM card.
E-mail addresses and the like are not available via that route. Good idea though. Malcolm Parfitt > On 14 Dec 2020, at 23:05, Simon A Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Malcom, > > Not that it will matter now but I would have put a sim card in to the Symbian > device that broke down to the size for the iPhone > > Saved all the contacts to the sim card from the Symbian device and then > import them from the sim into the iPhone through contacts. > > Which to me would be an easier option and how I originally did mine years ago. > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Malcolm Parfitt > Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:42 am > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: importing contacts using a VCF file > > Not sure if this is any help to you. > > When my friend migrated from Symbian to an iPhone back in May he had a lot of > contacts he wanted to transfer over to his iPhone. > > What I did was this. > > On his Windows 10 machine I navigated to his Contacts folder under his user > profile. > > Having exported the VCF files to a memory card from the Symbian phone I > imported the contacts into Windows10. > > I then synchronised contacts via iTunes to his iPhone and they were > transferred. > > You have to be careful what field labels are in your VCF files as not all > items will be transferred. The iPhone is fussy about labels such as mobile > but I can’t remember which ones caused trouble now. However VCF files can be > freely edited if difficulties arise. > > Malcolm Parfitt > > > On 14 Dec 2020, at 21:46, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don’t think you said if she is using VoiceOver. > If so, I hope if she does a one finger triple tap on the attachment it will > give you the correct option. > If no VoiceOver, have her hold her finger on the attachment until the context > menu comes up. > Otherwise, I’d say try calling Apple Accessibility. > > I hope this works. > > > > Richard > "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of > flying. > There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in > learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." > --Douglas Adams, from Life, The Universe and Everything, p.59 > > Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com > > *I’m not the card shark > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dan > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 1:42 PM > To: 'cwc' via VIPhone <[email protected]> > Subject: importing contacts using a VCF file > > Hi all, > > > > My wife has gotten an Iphone SE2020. She has been using an android phone and > has a lot of contacts she doesn't want to have to enter on the SE by hand. > We did some research and found instructions for using a VCF file. > > > > It says she can export the contacts on her android into a VCF file and then > email them to herself. She did this with the file attached to the email. > > > > Now on her SE she opens the email and touches the attachment. It gives her > lots of choices but none of them are for importing the contacts. 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