How to export your contacts to Excel

What you get in the Excel file

• One row per contact and one column per field you keep: name, phone, email, company, job title, address, birthday, website and more.
• People with several phone numbers or emails stay on a single row.
• A standard .xlsx file that opens in Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.

The built-in way (without an app)

Neither iPhone nor Android can save contacts as an Excel file on their own. The usual workaround goes through Google on a computer.

On iPhone (iOS 17 or later):

1. Open Contacts, tap Lists, then touch and hold All Contacts (or All iCloud).
2. Tap Export, choose the fields and save the .vcf file to Files.
3. On a computer, open contacts.google.com, choose Import and pick the .vcf file.
4. Choose Export, then Google CSV or Outlook CSV, and open the file in Excel.

On Android: the Contacts app exports only a .vcf file. If your contacts sync with Google, open contacts.google.com on a computer, choose Export and pick Google CSV.

Feature	Built-in route	Contaxo
File you get	CSV (after converting)	Real Excel .xlsx (or CSV, PDF, Word)
Computer needed	Yes	No
Google account needed	Yes	No
Your contacts uploaded	Yes, to Google	No, stays on your phone
Choose columns before export	No	Yes
Export one group	Partly	Yes, plus phone, email and company filters

Tips

• Need a list to print rather than a spreadsheet? Export to PDF gives you pages with a header row on each page.
• Importing into a CRM or mailing tool? Most of them prefer CSV.
• Planning to edit the spreadsheet and bring the contacts back? Contaxo can import contacts from Excel too.