Clay’s Contacts integration for iOS adds phone numbers and birthdays to existing Clay cards when possible and creates new contacts for people in your address book that aren't in Clay.
Connecting Contacts
- Go to the
App Menuin the top right, thenSettingson iOS - Select Integrations, and tap
iOS Contactsunder All Integrations - Allow Clay access to Contacts
What Clay Does
Clay imports all known contacts from Contacts. Clay will create cards for new people and use this data to enrich existing contacts when there's a high degree of confidence that the people are the same.
Clay pulls in select information. Clay will import text fields like name, bio, phone numbers, addresses, etc. Profile pictures aren't pulled in quite yet, but we have plans to add that functionality.
Clay will continuously reimport your contacts in the background. This means you’ll always have the most up-to-date information about your people in Clay.
What Clay Doesn’t Do
Clay doesn’t change any data in your Apple Contacts. This integration is read-only, meaning it will update the data inside Clay to match what you have in your contacts, but it will not reflect changes you make in Clay back to your contacts.
FAQs
What information does Clay pull from my iOS Contacts app?
Here's a list of everything we pull from the Apple Contacts integration:
- First name
- Last name
- Emails (with labels)
- Phone numbers (with labels)
- Websites
- Addresses
- Birthday
- Notes (will be visible in Clay as read-only and can’t be edited within Clay)
The iOS Contacts integration isn't available on Mac. What's wrong?
The iOS Contacts integration is currently only available on iOS. We haven't built the macOS version yet, but it's on our radar. For now, you can connect Apple Contacts through the Clay app on your iPhone.
If I delete a contact from my iPhone, will it be deleted from Clay?
No, deleting a contact from your iOS Contacts app won't delete them from Clay. If you no longer want to see a contact resurface, you can archive them in Clay instead.