Export contacts using Numbers Does Not Work

If you are using iPhone or iPad having iOS 16 then go to Contacts app. Click on List or Groups on Top Left Corner. Then Click and Hold on All Contacts. Then Click on "Export" and then send it appropriately using one of the channel like airdrop, mail.

I have been trying to export a list of 700 contacts all at once. It now appears to work with smaller chunks, say, 100-120 at time. If I try to select all, I get the beach ball, and the process stops (but doesn't crash). Thanks for your reply.

Numbers seems to choke at some point between 100-200 contact records selected and dragged over to export from Contacts. Spinning beachball and dialog that says the spreadsheet is being updated...but then it just stops.

I found an issue that was preventing me from exporting large numbers of contacts this way: contacts with generic field names were not exporting and holding up the process. E.g., some of my contacts had generic field names, like "phone", "email", and "address", instead of the typical/specific, "mobile", "home", "work" labels.

I found the offending contact cards by systematically and recursively dividing my list of contacts and trying to export. Once an offending/"corrupt" card was found, I edited its field names to match the typical/specific field labels. And viola! I can now export the entire list at once. 😊

A problem with trying to export in batches is that not all contacts use the same fields and you end up with mismatched columns. It's better to find and fix the offending cards and then export the entire list at once.

I hope this helps others!

I cleared the extra emails and the export still didn't work. ug

Is there any update or solution or guidance regarding export of Apple Contacts data to Apple Numbers? It still only seems to work for one record at a time, per the threads here? Frustrating.

What problems are you seeing?

Generally all you have to do is select multiple contacts in Contacts (in the listing on the left) and drag-and-drop your selection of contacts into a Numbers table.

SG

Then why not do the import in smaller batches?

SG