Have you been struggling to save your contacts to Gmail? This article is going to take you through all the steps on how to save contacts to your Gmail account.
If you don’t want to lose your contacts in case your phone gets lost, I would recommend you back up these contacts with Google drive.
Google Drive is the storage platform of Gmail.
So just in case, you haven’t figured out how this really works, don’t mind am going to show you step by step how you can backup contacts to Google drive and how to retrieve Google backup contacts.
Now that you are curious to explore how this thing of saving contacts to Gmail works, let us dig deep into the step-by-step guide.
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How to save contacts to gmail.
There are three ways you can easily save contacts to Gmail. We shall look at each method in detail.
My contacts backup gmail.
Contacts backup feature in Gmail can help you manipulate your phone contacts in a number of ways such as:-
- Contact cards merge the info you have about someone with the contact details they share.
- Duplicates disappear! It’s simple to review and merge duplicate contacts into one clean list.
- No matter how you use Google, now all your contacts come together in one place.
If you want to check whether Android has been saving your contact to Gmail automatically, follow these procedures:-
- Open your gmail account ( Make sure the gmail account is similar to one you setup for android ) Read how to change google password on android.
- In the upper right corner , tap the Menu icon and select Contacts .
- Gmail will automatically open in new tab with a list of your contacts .
If you saw your contact list from your phone in that list you are done. Google already has your phone contacts on Gmail.
If you did not find your contacts there are some things you need to do to make sure that they are backed up.
save contacts to gmail .
Method 1 : Backup contacts to Google drive .
Every android phone comes with a backup feature that you can turn on and off just in case you want backup data from the phone to Google drive.
For this case we shall backup contacts to Google drive by following the steps included below:-
- Open your android phone or tablet and go to Settings .
2. Under Settings, Go to System and select Backup ( the steps may vary depending on your android version )
3. In Backup ensure that your Back up to Google Drive is turned on. You can also change or remove your backup Gmail location under Account.
So if in any case, you lose your phone to theft or misplacement, you can easily retrieve Google backup contacts on your new phone.
With this method, you don’t need to copy one contact at a time to transfer it to a new phone or vice versa.
Method 2 : Save contacts to gmail using phone contacts settings
In this method, we shall see how you can easily save contacts to Gmail using the default contact list settings. To use this method, simply follow the procedure below:-
- Navigate to your Contact list and open it .
- Tap the Menu icon ( three vertical dots in the right upper corner) .
- Select Import & Export Contacts option from menu .
- Select from available export and import options according to your choice and Google will automatically backup your phone contacts on gmail .
However, if you can’t find the steps, I would recommend you either use the first method or the third one below.
Method 3 : Save contacts to gmail
If you always want to secure your phone contacts in case of any theft or lose your phone, save them to Gmail other than the default sim card or phone storage.
You can do this by following the procedures below.
- Open your dial pad , enter new phone contact and click Create new contact
2. Under Saving to, select your Gmail account and fill in the rest of the details.
3. Then click SAVE. Google will automatically save this contact to your Gmail account. To restore these google backup contacts read the next section.
How to retrieve Google backup contacts .
Google Gmails allows you to access your contacts list online via Gmail > contacts. You’ll only be able to see contacts you saved.
If you need to restore your phone contacts on Gmail to a new phone or the same phone, you can do so by following these simple steps.
Restore Google contacts .
- Open your phone’s Settings
2. Tap Google.
3. Under “Services,” tap Restore contacts.
4. If you have multiple Gmail Accounts, choose which account’s contacts to restore, tap From account.
5. Tap the device with the contacts to copy.
6. If you don’t want to copy contacts from your SIM card or device storage, turn off SIM card or Device storage.
7. Tap Restore, then wait until you see “Contacts restored.”
8. To avoid duplicates, your device restores only contacts that it doesn’t already have. Your restored contacts also sync to your current Google Account and other devices.
To restore contacts from other apps, like Outlook or WhatsApp, you’ll need to re-install those apps.
How to backup android contacts to PC
You can also backup Android contacts to PC using a special software AnyTrans for Android. Follow the procedures below to backup android contacts to PC with AnyTrans for Android:-
- Download and install AnyTrans for Android on your PC . Open and connect your phone to it .
2. Scroll down to the category page and Choose Contacts.
3. All contact items on Android will be displayed > Click the Settings button to choose the contact format and the export path you like.
4. Select the contacts you wish to backup to PC. Click the computer button icon to move them to your PC
6. After the backup process is successful, you can view the contact items on the PC
How to backup contacts iPhone
There are two ways you can easily backup iPhone contacts, one involves a full backup of your iPhone with iCloud, and the other one is syncing only iPhone contacts to the iCloud server.
The methods below contain detailed explanations.
Method 1 : Back Up Contacts on iPhone by Backing Up iPhone to iCloud
- On your iPhone, go to Settings App and Tap on your Apple ID
- Select iCloud
- Select iCloud Backup and Tap on it to turn it on if it is closed
- Click Back Up Now. Then your contacts on iPhone will be backed up to iCloud server as well as other iPhone content.
Method 2: Back Up Contacts on iPhone by Syncing Contacts to iCloud
- Go to Settings App and Click on your Apple ID’s part
- Select iCloud and Tap on Contacts to turn it on
- Click Merge when it asks “what would you like to do with existing local contacts on your iPhone”. Then wait for your iPhone contacts backed up to iCloud.