why are the telephone numbers on my SIM card not showing on my new phone?

[AC Question]

I removed the SIM card in my old phone and placed it into my new Samsung Galaxy Core phone but there is no indication that the card is even in the phone. How do I get my telephone numbers that are stored on my SIM card to appear in my "contacts" on my new phones? Thanks in advance.

 

[hallux]

Contacts and phone numbers usually don't get saved to SIM cards anymore. Now that cloud sync is so popular and easy, it's usually preferable to save them to a cloud account. If you did not do that, they're likely saved as "phone" contacts and are still on your old phone.

 

[Rukbat]

Put the card back in the old phone (if you still have it), edit one of the "missing" contacts and see what type (the first item) the contact is. As hallux said, if it's "Phone", it's in the old phone, not on the SIM card (which you shouldn't be using to store contacts anyway - if the card goes bad and has to be replaced, you lose all your contacts. Store ALL contacts as Google contacts, and make sure Contacts is set to sync.)