How to Backup Your Android Contacts

If you have a lot of contacts on your Android phone, it’s a good idea to learn how to backup your contacts to Google.

Once you do, you’ll be able to easily restore the loss of deleted contacts from your Google backup later.

 

How Many phone numbers do you know by heart? Relying on tech to remember such things can feel precarious, but there are just too many details for our brains to store. It makes sense to defer to our devices for the various contact details that float in and out of our lives.

The easiest way to get your contacts saved across your various devices is by saving them directly to the Google account that’s associated with those devices.

But you don’t have to do this manually every time you have a new number or email address to add to your collection of contacts. For those with Android devices, getting it done can be quickly and easily accomplished.

How to backup your Android contacts to a Google account

• Go to your Settings
• Tap “System” and then choose “Backup” (it may also be under “Backup and Reset, “beneath the section for “User and Backup”).
• Navigate to your Backup menu.

• Turn on “Backup to Google Drive”

 

How to restore your contacts from a Google backup

After completing the above steps, you’ll have the option to restore any lost phone contacts by retrieving them from your backup later-on.

Here’s how to do that:

• Open your Settings.
• Tap “Google”.
• Open your Google menu and tap “Restore Contact”.

• Under “Services” select “Restore Contacts” (depending on your device, it may also be its own section; and those with multiple Google accounts will have to select the correct one by tapping “From Account”).
• Choose the account that you saved your contacts to.

• Choose the device with the contacts you want to copy.
• Tap “Restore” —- wait until you see a confirmation message before navigating away from the screen.

When using the above restoration method, keep in mind that your device will only save contacts you don’t already have saved. That way, you’ll be able to avoid creating duplicate contacts. You can also OPT to merge your saved contacts with the ones already saved on your device, which will get rid of those redundancies. Your new contacts will sync to your Google Account as well as any accounts you have connected to it.

While you’re restoring, you’ll also have the option to skip saving to your SIM Card or Device Storage after selecting the contacts you want to copy. To do that, simply turn off the “SIM CARD” or “Device Storage” options before hitting “Restore”.