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Exporting iPhone contacts to a FRITZ!Box phone book

With FRITZ!App Fon you can transfer the phone book entries saved in the Contacts app of your iPhone to a phone book in the FRITZ!Box.

Requirements / Restrictions

  • The function is not available in Android.
  • The Contacts app may contain a maximum of 300 entries.

1 Preparations

Setting up FRITZ!App Fon

  1. Set up FRITZ!App Fon.

Allowing access to contacts in iOS

In order for FRITZ!App Fon to access the local contacts on your iOS device in iOS, you must enable access to your contacts for FRITZ!App Fon:

  1. Open the iOS settings.
  2. Tap 'Privacy' and then 'Contacts'.
  3. Allow FRITZ!App Fon access to the contacts.

2 Exporting contacts with FRITZ!App Fon

  1. Start FRITZ!App Fon.
  2. Tap 'Phone book'.
  3. Tap the three-dot menu on the top right and then tap 'Export contacts'.
  4. Tap 'Export by Email'. This automatically creates an email containing an XML file with the contacts in the attachment.
  5. Save the attached file to your computer when you receive the email.

3 Importing contacts into the FRITZ!Box

  1. Click on 'Telephony' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click on 'Phone Book' in the 'Telephony' menu.
  3. Click on the tab of the phone book you want to transmit the contacts to. If you do not want to overwrite a phone book, create a new phone book first.
  4. Click on the 'Restore' button. When you restore, all of the existing phone book entries are overwritten.
  5. Select the file (*.XML) that contains the contacts.
  6. Click on the 'Restore Phone Book' button.
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