Transferring personal contacts and notes from work phone to new iPhone

My work and personal contacts are all under the same Apple ID. I do not want to share my new number with some co-workers as I am retiring and do not want to be bothered by some of those I worked with.

I backed up the work phone to my laptop using itunes. Should I create a new Apple ID with my work email on the company phone? I realize I probably have to weed out my personal contacts from the work phone and similarly weed out work contacts on the new phone. I only used a few apps on the work side, the rest were personal. Personal emails were always on my gmail account so email is not an issue. I already deleted all work photos from the icloud , which took about 9 hours. UGGH! I guess my only concern would be NOTES at this point. Thanks for any and all help. Paul.


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iPhone 14, iOS 18

Posted on Jan 19, 2025 10:43 PM

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Jan 19, 2025 11:22 PM in response to Lil_big_bleu

For Contacts:


What is your default Contacts account? If none, please add an email account and enable contacts.



Unlike some Android devices, contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you have Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other



If you have a corporate email account added through a profile on your device, please check with your organization's system administrator.




  1. Is this your corporate/organization/enterprise/School Management iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of your corporate//organisation/enterprise/School Management
  2. If it is your device, in that case, do you have any profile installed by your corporate/organization/enterprise/School Management?
    1. Erase the profile added by you If you have installed a profile on your own --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
    2. Please contact the system administrator of the organization who provided the profile to you




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