Export Contacts from iCloud

Mac
#1

I cannot get iCloud to export Contacts. When I click on the gear wheel at the bottom of the page and select 'Export vCard, nothing happens, no dialog box to select where to export to, nothing. I have restarted the computer but still, nothing happens. How can I make this work, please? I have read various user guides and followed what they say, but no joy.
I need to export the contacts so I can import them into my forthcoming new Android phone. (I’m going cheap!)
I have posted this same quey on Apple Communities without any response so I hoping for some help from closer to home
Robin

#2

I just tried this. It works for me via Safari on Mac OS FWIW.

Did you select the contact(s) you wish to export first?

I then get a dialog “Do you want to allow downloads on “www.icloud.com””?

After that it opens up the Contacts app to go through the process…

Hope that helps

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#3

When I do an export from iCloud, it downloads them and wants to add them to my MacBook contacts (which are dupes, of course). It leaves a .vcf file in my downloads folder…

#4

Same for me.

#5

Thanks for your replies. Much appreciated. I was trying to export my iCloud contacts using Safari, but that didn’t work, as noted. I tried Chrome, same result. So I tried Firefox. Great, that worked. As mentioned, it saved the vCard in the download folder.
But why wouldn’t it work in Safari. Perhaps it is a quirk in my particular Safari. But I am pleased now I can transfer my contacts to my about to purchase Android phone. I would buy an iPhone, but I just can’t justify paying $700 for a telephone. That’s all I would use it for.
Thanks for all your advice,
Robin

#6

There are also apps on the App Store for the phone which will export the contacts to VCF and XLS and CSV

#7

Thanks, I’ll have a look at that. However, I suspect my phone is to old to work with recent apps. It is a 4s, running iOS 7.1.2.
Robin