What "Save contact" saves to someone's phone

When someone taps Save contact on your card, their phone downloads a contact file (a VCF file) and offers to add you to their contacts. The file is built from the fields on your card at that moment, so it’s always up to date.

What’s included

From your card	Saved as
Formatted name	Name
Your organisation’s name	Company
Job title	Job title
Phone numbers (Cellphone number, Work number, Home number, Direct number)	Phone numbers, labelled as mobile, work, home or other
Email addresses	Email addresses, labelled work, home or other
Work address	Work address
Website and social links (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and so on)	Web addresses
Calendar booking	A calendar link
Birthday	Birthday
Nickname	Nickname
Note	Notes

How these appear depends on the other person’s phone and contacts app. Most phones show names, numbers, emails, addresses and websites clearly. Some apps hide or ignore extras such as the calendar link.

What’s not included

• Your profile photo. The saved contact won’t have a picture.
• Your company logo, banner or background.
• The call-to-action button.

How saving works on each phone

• iPhone: a contact preview opens. The other person taps Create New Contact (or adds you to an existing contact).
• Android: the file downloads. Tapping it opens it in their contacts app, where they choose where to save it.

The steps vary a little between phone models and browsers.

Related

• What is a VCF (vCard) file?
• Show your QR code (the offline QR code contains the same details)