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How to transfer contacts from Mac OS X to Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 (SM-X518u)

Mac OS X
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 (SM-X518u)

Transfer contacts from your Mac OS X to the cloud server

We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Mac OS X easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.

Download PhoneCopy for Mac to your Mac, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.

Start PhoneCopy for Mac Choose Log into an new account

Choose your username and password, fill email address and captcha and press Sign UP. Press Synchronize.

Type in your username, password and captscha Select sync direction

Select synchronization direction. Press This device -> server

Sync in progress

Your contacts will be synchronized in few seconds.

Sync in progress Sync in progress

And now it's time to transfer data to your Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 (SM-X518u)

Download PhoneCopy for Android to your Android phone, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.

Login

Run the app and create new account. If you already have an account choose "sign on". Fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy.
Log in to your existing account where you stored your data from the old phone.

Welcome Login to existing account

Permissions

To allow correct functionality of PhoneCopy application we will kindly ask you to confirm access permissions for it.

Permissions Permissions

When you confirm access to contacts you can set which "contacts databases" you want to backup.

Contacts Contacts Contacts

If you also want to back up your SMS, enable access to the SMS in the next step.

SMS SMS Messages

After enabling media access, you can set up media backup (photos and videos).

Media Media Photos and videos

You can download photos and videos from old phone (which was synchronized to PhoneCopy.com before) you can choose it in the next step. Then you can synchronize.

Other devices Sync

This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A14 5G SM-A146m, Samsung Galaxy A15 5G SM-A156u, Samsung Galaxy A15 SM-A155f, Samsung Galaxy A25 5G sm-a256b, Samsung Galaxy A50 sm-s506dl, Samsung Galaxy A55 5G sm-a556b, Samsung Galaxy M30 (sm-m305m), Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite (SM-G770U1), Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus scv42, Samsung Galaxy S24 5G sm-s921w.

Now you have all your contacts backed up on PhoneCopy and you can edit all your contacts in your online account. If you lose your phone or the stored data, or if you just run out of battery, you can see your contacts online.

Some additional tips:

Contacts can be then transferred to another device (eq. iPhone, Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). See PhoneCopy site for supported devices.