If i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts?

If i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts or probably not save my contacts. You’re welcome to gadgetroyale and I will explain to when you put your sim card into another phone, what happens.

Right now in 2021, you can use a mobile phone without or without a SIM card. You can also chat on whatsapp, make a video call or voice chat without having a sim card as long as you have created your whatsapp account.

Right now the question we have here is if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts. You don’t need to worry cause I’m going to explain that to you right on this post.

If i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts

The answer is no. If you put your sim card in another phone, it won’t save the contacts on another phone though you will see all your contacts on that phone.

Let me give you an example. You removed your sim card from your phone and put the sim into the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra or the iPhone 12 Pro Max. The contacts stored in the sim card will not be saved in the galaxy s21 ultra or the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Instead what will happen is that you will see all the sim contacts in the iphone 12 pro max or the galaxy s21 ultra contact list because the contacts are stored in the sim card.

This is what confuses people the most, they usually think that the contacts are automatically saved on the phone because they are seeing the contacts on the phone contact list. That’s why you see questions like this if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts.

The truth is, immediately you removed the sim card from the galaxy s21 ultra or the iPhone 12 Pro Max, the contacts will no longer be there, you won’t see them on the phone contact list.

Then the question is;

Why did this happened? 

And the answer is;

Because the contacts are saved in the sim card. 

This is one major misconception of people on sim contacts, thinking that mobile phones automatically saves the contacts in the sim after the sim is inserted into the phone. This is why question of if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts  pops up in the internet.

You don’t have to worry as i will guide you on how to copy the sim card contacts to your phone or email address 

The truth is, if a contact or lists of contacts are stored or saved in the sim card, immediately you removed the sim from a mobile phone, the contact(s) will no longer be available on that very phone.

This is why I prefer to save my contacts on my email address and that is the Gmail address. With thar you won’t have to bother yourself with the question of if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts, cause immediate you added the email address to your phone, all your contacts will display on your mobile phone.

For example, when i was using my old LG G2, I saved my contacts straight to my email address, when I bought my galaxy s9 plus in 2018, immediately I signed into my Google account, all the phone contacts I added when I was using my old LG G2 displayed on the contact list.

The reason for this is because the contacts were saved to my email address and not sim card or the phone itself.

Now you have the answer to if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts, let me show you how you copy the contacts to the phone.

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So in case you want to save the sim card contacts to the other phone, this is how to go about it.

On Android Phone

On your android phone, tap and open the contact app. Depending on the Android phone you’re using, tap on the hamburger menu.

Immediately you tapped on the hamburger menu, some options will be displayed to you and this includes manage contacts. Tap on the manage contacts to open another window.

On the next windows are different functions which includes the followings;

kindly tap on import and export contacts.

As you tapped on import or export contacts button, You’ll be presented with two options, and they are;

  • Import
  • Export

Kindly tap on import button and you’ll be on the first step of transferring contacts from sim to phone.

Options available will be shown to you, they include the internal storage, sd card and the sim card just like on the picture below.

if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts

Hou have to tick sim card by tapping on the box.

It will bring out all contacts in your sim card. However, if you want to transfer all the contacts in your sim card, kindly mark all of them. But if you have some contacts which you want to move to the phone, select them one after the other.

When you have finished, click on done. Now select the location you’re transferring the contacts to, so you have to select phone by ticking or tapping on the box.

Lastly, click on the import button and the contacts will be imported or transferred to your phone. You can view the imported contacts by simply going to the contact app on your phone, you’ll see the contacts.

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Tap on any of the contacts and check their details, you’ll see it is saved on your phone. You can as well remove your sim card to verify if everything went successfully.

For iPhone

For the iPhone users, it’s so simple and easy. On your phone, tap on settings and go to contact. Look below you’ll see where it states import sim contacts, kindly tap on that button.

You’ll see three options on the list, they include the followings;

  • Icloud
  • On my iPhone
  • Cancel

As we’re looking for how do i transfer contacts from sim to phone, select on my iphone by tapping on the button. Immediately your sim contacts will be imported into your iphone.

This is how to import contacts from sim card to the iPhone. You can remove the sim card and view your contacts to see if you have successfully imported the contacts to your iPhone.

With this, there’s no need for the question of if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts. You will have to transfer, copy or move the contacts to the phone and by yourself cause the phone won’t do that for you.

Do contacts transfer with SIM card?

Once you put a SIM card into a mobile phone, you will see all the contacts saved in the sim card though immediately you remove the sim card from the phone, you won’t see the contacts cause they are saved in the sim.

This is same with the main topic of the post, if i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts.

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As long as you have the sim card in the phone, you will see all the contacts in phone but immediately you remove the sim card from the phone, the contacts will all disappear and you won’t see them on the phone contact list unless you copy the contacts to the phone before removing the sim card.

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I'm Amaechi Uchenna by name, a mobile tech enthusiast who love writing articles about tips and tutorials especially relating to gadgets.

2 thoughts on “If i put my sim card in another phone will it save my contacts?”

  1. Is there any other data to be retrieved from the SIM card like deleted photos or text messages for iPhone?

  2. No you can’t retrieve deleted photos or text messages from a sim card but rather from iCloud. What you can retrieve from a sim card is the contacts but only if they are stored or saved in the sim card.

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