New SIM card - more help needed please...

GaleSF63

I have to get a new phone as my 14-year-old won't do 4g. I will transfer my existing number. Will my contacts transfer with the number?

QrizB

Is your old phone an Android or an iPhone? If so, are your contacts associated with a Google account or an Apple account respectively?

If they are, thryll magically reappear when you connect your new phone to that account.

vacheron

The contacts won't transfer with the number. You will need to transfer them from your old phone to your new phone.

How easy this is depends on the phone you have and the new phone you are buying. 

GaleSF63

Looks like a session copying them by hand. Having had a quick run through it won't be too bad - there are a lot of redundant numbers -even 2 people who died several years ago!

EssexExile

I love the internet - ask a simple question and get totally opposing answers! I have an Android phone which I replaced recently, all my contacts were transferred over as were all my apps. Just follow the onscreen instructions on the new phone.

TadleyBaggie

EssexExile said:

I love the internet - ask a simple question and get totally opposing answers! I have an Android phone which I replaced recently, all my contacts were transferred over as were all my apps. Just follow the onscreen instructions on the new phone.

Which is fine if you are moving from Android to Android, however the OP hasn't told use what they are moving from/to. So may not be that simple.

Emmia

TadleyBaggie said:

EssexExile said:

I love the internet - ask a simple question and get totally opposing answers! I have an Android phone which I replaced recently, all my contacts were transferred over as were all my apps. Just follow the onscreen instructions on the new phone.

Which is fine if you are moving from Android to Android, however the OP hasn't told use what they are moving from/to. So may not be that simple.

I was wondering if it might be a "dumb" mobile phone, rather than any sort of Smartphone 

glennevis

Some old 2G phones of that age would store contacts on the SIM card, with a limit of ~100.
You might get lucky.

GaleSF63

Emmia said:

TadleyBaggie said:

EssexExile said:

I love the internet - ask a simple question and get totally opposing answers! I have an Android phone which I replaced recently, all my contacts were transferred over as were all my apps. Just follow the onscreen instructions on the new phone.

Which is fine if you are moving from Android to Android, however the OP hasn't told use what they are moving from/to. So may not be that simple.

I was wondering if it might be a "dumb" mobile phone, rather than any sort of Smartphone 

It's definitely not a smartphone! Very basic. Just a phone. Anyway I've started writing down the contacts I might need. I think I was hoping  the contacts were associated with the sim not the phone.
Thank you for your help.

Emmia

GaleSF63 said:

Emmia said:

TadleyBaggie said:

EssexExile said:

I love the internet - ask a simple question and get totally opposing answers! I have an Android phone which I replaced recently, all my contacts were transferred over as were all my apps. Just follow the onscreen instructions on the new phone.

Which is fine if you are moving from Android to Android, however the OP hasn't told use what they are moving from/to. So may not be that simple.

I was wondering if it might be a "dumb" mobile phone, rather than any sort of Smartphone 

It's definitely not a smartphone! Very basic. Just a phone. Anyway I've started writing down the contacts I might need. I think I was hoping  the contacts were associated with the sim not the phone.
Thank you for your help.

How many contacts do you have? Are you sticking with a "phone only" device, or moving to a smartphone?

FrugaiMacDugal

Go to settings in old phone and make sure all contacts (delete any obsolete ones) are saved to SIM, transfer SIM to new phone, that lets you keep your phone number.

Might need to request a new SIM from provider (SIM Swap) depending on slot size on new phone.