Transfer contacts from your Mac OS X to the cloud server
We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Mac OS X easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.
Download PhoneCopy for Mac to your Mac, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.
Choose your username and password, fill email address and captcha and press Sign UP. Press Synchronize.
Select synchronization direction. Press This device -> server
Your contacts will be synchronized in few seconds.
And now it's time to transfer data to your Motorola Moto G42
Download PhoneCopy for Android to your Android phone, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.
Login
Run the app and create new account. If you already have an account choose "sign on". Fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy.
Log in to your existing account where you stored your data from the old phone.
Permissions
To allow correct functionality of PhoneCopy application we will kindly ask you to confirm access permissions for it.
When you confirm access to contacts you can set which "contacts databases" you want to backup.
If you also want to back up your SMS, enable access to the SMS in the next step.
After enabling media access, you can set up media backup (photos and videos).
You can download photos and videos from old phone (which was synchronized to PhoneCopy.com before) you can choose it in the next step. Then you can synchronize.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Motorola Edge 30 Neo, Motorola Moto E22, Motorola Moto E32s, Motorola Moto G Play 2023, Motorola Moto G Pure 2021, Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G (2022), Motorola Moto G31, Motorola Moto G32, Motorola Moto G41, Motorola Razr Plus 2023.
Now you can easily edit your contacts and other resources online in your PhoneCopy profile. You have access to your contact even if you forget your phone at home.
Some additional tips:
On your online account, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you've deleted in between the synchronizations. You can find them in an archive from where you can restore them. And if this is still not enough of a backup for you, you can download a CSV file, that you can store in your computer.