Backup WeChat Contacts from iPhone to Mac

Afraid of losing your WeChat contacts on iPhone? Then we can help you backup your WeChat contacts from iPhone to Mac.

WeChat contacts are as important as contacts on our iPhone, we usually use it to contact our friends and family through WeChat now, because it’s more convenient and instant, also we can reply it when it’s convenient for us, and we won’t disturb others. As it’s very important, so we may want to backup our WeChat contacts from iPhone to Mac, in case we lost or delete them occasionally.

Now in this article, we’ll show you some ways about how to backup WeChat contacts from iPhone to Mac, read it and learn more.

Backup WeChat Contacts to Mac with iTunes

Now we’ll see how to use iTunes to backup our WeChat contacts to Mac, see below steps.

Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with Mac. Go to Device--Summary, then you can tap on “Backup Now” on the right page, and confirm with “Backup”.



When finish backup, you can restore them to your Mac, or check them from below folder address:

For Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
For Mac ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

Backup WeChat Contacts to Mac with iRefone

We can also backup them selectively on Mac by using iRefone, which is a professional iOS data recovery software. It can help us recover as well as backup more than 16 kinds of files, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, reminders, calendars, WeChat messages ect. And it can help us extract iPhone data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows us to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with Mac. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Now we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “WeChat Contact” icon, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning and analyzing, then you can preview and choose WeChat contacts you need to backup, tap on “Recover to PC”.



Remark: if you lost or deleted some WeChat data on iPhone without backup, you can also come to iRefone for help. For related steps, you can see below article for reference:

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