How to transfer contacts from Mac OS X to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (SM-F956b)
![Mac OS X](/dynamic/phone_images/apple_mac.png)
![Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (SM-F956b)](/dynamic/phone_images/samsung_galaxy_z_fold6.png)
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 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (SM-F956b)
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.
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts.png)
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts2.png)
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts3.png)
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 Samsung Galaxy A15 5G SM-A156B, Samsung Galaxy A15 5G SM-A156u1, Samsung Galaxy A15 5G SM-S156v, Samsung Galaxy A35 5G sm-a356u, Samsung Galaxy A53 5G SC-53C, Samsung Galaxy A54 5G SM-A546s, Samsung Galaxy S23 5G sm-s911w, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 5G sm-s928u1, Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g9300), Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 (SM-F741b).
Once everything is done, check your data on the web. Login to PhoneCopy webpage and you will see brief review of all data transferred from your device. With another mouse click, you can review the change of each particular item.
Some additional tips:
Just as a reminder, the contacts are transferred via your mobile phone service provider, so you need to have data plan activated for the service to work. If you don't have a special data scheme, your carrier will charge you additional fees.