Sync iCloud Contacts on Android Smartphone

Both Apple and Google offer online storage and synchronization services for contacts from the smartphone phone book. Apple offers this option through iCloud Contacts (To sync the device phone book sites iPhone), and Google through Google Contacts (For synchronization phone book on Android smartphones).

If you are the owner of a iPhone and will keep contacts synchronized in iCloud Contacts and you want to have on a Android smartphone, Then you should know that the application SmoothSync for Cloud ContactsWill allow sync contacts from iCloud to Google Android mobile phones. Synchronization is a two-way (that is, a change made on the Android smartphone will be automatically made in the iCloud account.

Steps should I follow to sync iCloud Contacts on Android.

1. First, download and install the SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts application from Google Play. (the application costs approx. 3 Euro)

Download SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts

2. After installing SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts on Android, open and authenticate your iCloud account.

After adding your iCloud Contacts account, you can start synchronizing your contacts on your Android phone. Any changes made on the iPhone will also be present on the Android smartphone.

WARNING! Users of Android 2.1* or those with a Samsung smartphone, an add-on is needed (Workaround JB Cloud Contacts) that will fix an operating system bug. More precisely, this add-on helps not to lose contacts after restarting the smartphone. If your device will need this add-on, you will receive a notification where you will find the download link for JB Workaround Cloud Contacts.

SmoothSync Features for Cloud Contacts:
* Two-way-sync
* Supports multiple accounts
* Automatic discovery account
* Syncs contact photos
* Customizable sync interval (default: 6h, local changes synced Will Be Almost Immediately)
* Support for custom labels
* Encrypts the password on the device
* New! One way group sync (iCloud to Android) (two-way-sync of groups will follow)
known Limitations:
- relations won't get synced (yet)
- “push” is not supported (yet)

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