Telephone Book

Telephony / Telephone Book

You can set up local telephone books and online telephone books in the FRITZ!Box. How you can use the FRITZ!Box telephone book depends on the telephone used:

Telephone Available Functions
FRITZ!Fon Telephone book available in the menu on the display
Option for separate telephone books for multiple FRITZ!Fon telephones
Online contacts
Quick-dial numbers
Cordless telephone with CAT-iq 2.0 Telephone book available in the menu on the display
Quick-dial numbers
 Others Quick-dial numbers

Setting Up a New Telephone Book

You can set up local telephone books and online telephone books in the FRITZ!Box.

Instructions: Setting Up a Local Telephone Book

An entire local telephone book is saved in the FRITZ!Box.

  1. Select "Telephony / Telephone Book" in the user interface.
  2. Click the "New telephone book" link.
  3. Enter a name for the new telephone book.
  4. Select the "Create as new" option.

    In the default setting the new telephone book is empty. To transfer the entries from an already existing telephone book, enable the "Copy existing telephone book" setting and select a telephone book.

  5. Under "Telephone Assignment", select the FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones with which you would like to use the telephone book. The telephone assignment feature is only available for FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones.
  6. Click on "OK".

Instructions: Setting Up an Online Telephone Book

After it has been set up in the FRITZ!Box, the online telephone book is available on your FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones. The online telephone book is available in the FRITZ!Box and synchronized with your contacts in the internet at regular intervals.

Configuring Google Contacts as a Telephone Book

Configuring iCloud Contacts as a Telephone Book

Setting Up an Online Telephone Book (Telekom Mail, 1&1, GMX, WEB.DE)

Configuring Contacts in CardDAV Format as a Telephone Book

Synchronizing Online Telephone Books

An online telephone book configured in the FRITZ!Box is synchronized with your telephone book in the Internet at regular intervals. You can also start synchronization at any time with a click of the mouse.

For comprehensive information, click here: Synchronizing Online Telephone Books.