The newest iPhone 6 together with its bigger sibling iPhone 6 Plus have just been released. There are many complaints about the lack of improved features when compared with iPhone 5s, but apple fans can still benefit from its better specs. Whether your private photos, music, videos, apps, notes, messages or contacts, you definitely do not want to lose that kind of information due to some reasons beyond your control.

Launch the program and connect your iPhone 6 to PC. While connecting, the pop-up window will display on your Phone, you need to tap "Trust" to finish connection. Click "Contacts" on the main interface. You can see a full list of contacts for you to choose and save as backup per your need.

Click the box "Name" and then backup all contacts in .xml file format to PC by tapping "Export" button. Contacts in the form of XML gives you the convenience for viewing on computer. Also, you can place the contacts onto another device by connecting it to PC in the same manager and clicking “Import” to load the XML backup.

Before reading the contact information, the notification window will direct you to close your iCloud first, it appears like this "Contacts is used by iCloud, please close iClound so that Phone Manager can read contact". The prompt is only displayed on the phone running on iOS 8. If you are using ios 7 or other lower mobile operating system, you can connect your iPhone to phone manager successfully even the Contacts is used by iCloud. Go to “iCloud”, then tap to turn off contact. Tap “Keep on My iPhone”.

Close and backup iOS 8 contacts right now. Upon the automatic recognition of your contacts by Apowersoft Phone Manager, you can also go back to "My Phone", and then click on the "Backup" icon to select contacts for backup directly. That’s it, this program can export all your contacts with great ease.

Along with this capacity, the program can also realize the ability to manage or backup any data without iTunes or iCloud, including music, photos, videos, SMS, apps, books, notes and many others. Cloud is another backup solution which enables users to have 5GB of free room to work with. Contacts from the selection.

Now you can tap on “Back Up Now” to begin the backup process. However, it should be noted that, iCloud is not enough for most users to store all the data due to its capacity limit. Due to the recent reports about the loophole of iCloud, iTunes may be even a safer way to backup your iPhone 6 Plus contacts. Step 1: Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to PC via the USB cable. Step 2: Find and select your iPhone device on the upper right-side list and click on the icon.

Step 3: It will open a window that displays your iPhone 6’s information, choose "This computer" and then select "Encrypt iPhone backup". Step 4: Click on "Back UP Now" to backup your contacts. As a side note, iTunes backup is much more time-consuming because you have to back up the entire iOS 8 device including music, videos, photos and other large masses of data, you cannot just select contacts lists for backup. Sometimes, it might interrupt halfway due to a lot of reasons. With these tools as well as techniques, how to backup iOS 8 contacts comes as easy as you can. So what method suits your needs best, Check out this quick comparison.

I have the 7.1.1 version. Plus my phone is stating that I do not have enough storage for my iCloud. Do I need to do turn off my icloud backup and then backup to my itunes, Then once it's backed up, I then do an update to the new version,

My dad recently passed away so there are some voicemails & pictures I DO NOT want to lose! Christina, sorry to hear about your dad. Yes, I would definitely do a backup to your computer hard or external drive. As I note in the article, some iOS apps and services have their own backup, like Evernote and Dropbox, so you don't need to backup those files to iCloud. You could also try manually exporting the voicemails and pictures before you do the backup and update.