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If you need to quickly send contact information from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, it's easy to do with iMessage or even good, old-fashioned SMS. Sharing a contact via iMessage is much faster than typing it out, after all. As long as you have the information listed in your iOS Contacts app, you're always only a few taps away from sharing a vCard file (vcf) containing phone numbers, email, street addresses, and much more.
Waring: Because iMessage shares the entire vCard file, that could include more personal information that you intend. For example, sharing your own vCard could include all your Siri relationships. If there are contacts you need to share frequently, and don't want to share every bit of information about, you might want to create a duplicate, less detailed vCard to share.
How to share a contact card from your iPhone using iMessageYou can send a contact card with your iPhone through either iMessage or SMS which means the recipient can be another iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac user, or any other kind of smartphone user.
Launch the Phone app from your iPhone Home screen. Tap on the Contacts tab. FInd the contact you'd like to share and tap on their name.



If the bubble surrounding the contact is blue, it was sent using iMessage. If it is green, the other person does not use iMessage, or iMessage was unavailable, and it was sent using regular SMS/MMS.
How to share a contact card from your iPad or iPod touch using iMessageThe iPad and iPod touch will only be able to share a contact with another iMessage user so make sure whoever you're choosing to send a contact to is using iMessage as well.
Launch the Phone app from your iPad or iPod touch Home screen. Tap on the Contacts tab. FInd the contact you'd like to share and tap on their name.







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Thanks Allyson for the how-to. I didn't realize that there is a share button on the Mac for contacts. Sweet!
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