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How to Migrate or Transfer Android Device Contacts to Google

Most of the Androide services are based on cloud storage.  This mostly comes to rescue if you change your device, move to a different platform or in a crisis situation like you lose your phone. Today we are going to talk about saving all your contacts to Google which can save your day in such a situation. Saving new contacts to Google account is easy.  All you have to do is, when you are adding a new contact on your android device, it will give you a popup asking if you want to save it as a “Local Contact” or a “Google Contact”, just select Google and you are done.  But what about the old contacts you already have in your device ??  Lets see how we can migrate them to your Gmail account.

There are three simple steps to transfer all your contacts saved on the Android device to your Gmail account.

  1. Export or backup contacts which are saved on the Android device memory
  2. Import these contacts to Gmail Account
  3. Delete the contacts from Device (optional – only to avoid clutter)

 

Please note some options might change depending on your device manufacturer. I have added examples of these in brackets.

Step 1: Export or backup contacts which are saved on the Android device memory

Step 2: Import these contacts to your Gmail Account  

Step 3: Delete the contacts from Device (This is really an optional step. Decide if you really need it.)

Now every time you create a new contact, save it to Google.  Also leave your comments below in case you know of any App to do this automatically or if this post has helped you.