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Transfer contacts from your Mac OS X to the cloud server
PhoneCopy.com is a web service which is free for personal purposes (with few limitations). This tutorial will show you how to backup your data from Mac OS X. The whole process can be completed in few 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 Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition
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 Xiaomi 12 5G, Xiaomi 12 Pro, Xiaomi 12X, Xiaomi Mi 11i 5G, Xiaomi Poco C31, Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi 10 Prime, Xiaomi Redmi 10c, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S.
Now you have all your contacts backed up on PhoneCopy and you can edit all your contacts in your online account. If you lose your phone or the stored data, or if you just run out of battery, you can see your contacts online.
Some additional tips:
You can easily remove duplicate items among your contact list or SMS messages. Just go to the Contacts (or SMS) section and choose More Actions -> Search for duplicates. Detailed wizard will help you to solve this kind of problem easily.
