Without a doubt, one of the most useful features that google company provides owners Android smartphones, tablets and other devices running operating system this operating system is the ability to store a list of their contacts in the cloud storage.
This means that having a Google account you can easily and easily transfer contacts to new smartphone or tablet, restore them after resetting your mobile device to factory settings, as well as to have access to them on any devices with access to the Internet. But what if all or part of the contacts were lost for some reason?
This happens, for example, when you accidentally delete the desired contact, the phone fell into the hands of a child who erased all or part of the contacts on it or even made changes to them, and in other similar cases.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, don’t be upset to restore contacts from your Google account is quite simple and you can do this within 30 days after their loss.
So let's get started:
How to recover contacts in a Google account on an Android device
Attention! This is only about contacts stored in google account: Contacts stored on the SIM card in this way cannot be restored.
1. Launch a web browser on a PC, laptop, tablet or any other device that has Internet access.
2. Go to your gmail account on gmail.com
3. Click on "Mail" and in the menu that opens, select "Contacts"
4. In the menu of the window for working with contacts, click on "More" and select "Restore contacts"
5. In the window that opens, select a point in time (10 minutes ago, an hour ago, yesterday, a week ago, or a specific date and time accurate to a minute):
6. Click on Restore
7. On a smartphone, tablet or other Android device, Google contacts on which you need to restore go to the system settings menu.
8. Select Accounts
9. Choose Google
10. If you have more than one registered device account Google select the account from which you want to restore contacts
11. Press the menu button in the form of a vertical ellipse in the upper right-hand corner of the screen
12. Select “Synchronize” and wait until the inscription “Synchronization ...” disappears in the “Contacts” item (and the corresponding synchronization icon is opposite).
You can open the “Contacts” application or any other application with access to google contactswhere you will see that your contacts have been restored.
When I created my first mailbox, I thought that I would write to a limited number of people. To friends and acquaintances. Time passed and the number of addresses was imperceptible email grew up. This list was replenished at the expense of work colleagues, friends in social networks, contacts of technical support services of Internet services, government agencies, etc. were added to it. I'm not talking about a work list of contacts, which regularly adds information about customers and partners. Their e-mail, phones, addresses, ICQ numbers, etc.
At one point, I decided that all this should be streamlined. Created contact groups: acquaintances, services, clients, etc. And distributed information from one big heap into smaller heaps. Finding the right information has become easier.
Today we will talk about how to clean up the contact details of people and organizations that you may need.
Where to store contacts?
Gmail has a “contact manager” for storing contact information, which allows you to receive fast access to the addresses of other users. This is your powerful email address book. Here you can and should store e-mail, the names of contact persons. But is it worth it to lay out personal phones and confidential information, you decide. Of course, Google will not distribute or use this information to the detriment of users, but where is the guarantee that attackers will not get access to your account. Stick to the middle. Do not be paranoid or neglect network security rules.
So, to go to the contact manager, click the inscription "Gmail" in the upper left and select "Contacts".
In the left pane of the manager you will see several folders. We will call them groups. The groups "My contacts", "Starred", "Most frequent", "Other contacts" are system. Their name reflects the purpose.
On the right we see a list of contacts. In it you can add, view, edit, delete contacts.
How to add a contact?
- Press the red button " new contact”Or“ Add to group ... ”(the name of the button depends on the group you are currently in). Fields will appear in the area on the right in which you need to provide information about your respondent.
- Click the Details button (a gray rectangle with three dots) to the right of the Add Name box to open a form for accurately specifying data. Always take this opportunity, because the system sometimes makes a mistake, and does not correctly select the first or last name. Enter the contact form, name, etc. Press the "Save" button.
- Indicate the email address and its purpose - home, work or personalized. Click the inscription to the left of the address field and select the desired attribute. There may be several addresses. For example, one home and two workers. To add a new e-mail, click on the inscription "Add email address".
- Enter the phone number and mailing address. If you are filling out information about the organization, feel free to specify these details. Such information is publicly available, and you will always have it at hand.
- If your subscriber has a blog on the Internet or a home page, add their addresses in the appropriate fields. You can specify multiple addresses in the same way as email.
- Make short notes in the “Notes” box on the right. For institutions, add, for example, a work schedule.
- If you want to specify a position or number for Internet calls, click the "Advanced" button and select the required fields.
- It is advisable to immediately assign a group to a new contact. To do this, click the "Groups" button in the top panel. Mark the groups to which the user belongs. Or click on “Create” to add a new group.
If you sent a message to someone or you received messages and they are not marked as spam, Gmail will automatically add contacts with the specified email addresses and put them in the "Other Contacts" group.
How to change a contact?
Contact details periodically become outdated. Man stops using email address. Organizations change addresses and phone numbers. This information must be updated.
Open the contact and edit the necessary information. Delete obsolete values \u200b\u200bby clicking on the “Delete” button (trash) to the right of the corresponding field.
How to remove an address from mail?
Periodically clean your contact lists from outdated data. Remove all unnecessary.
- Open the contact.
- Press the "Advanced" button and select "Delete Contact" from the menu.
To get rid of several entries at once, mark in the contact list everything that you want to delete. Use the “Delete contacts” command similar to a single contact.
Deleted records can be restored within 30 days. After this period you will lose them forever.
Clean up the contact information you use. Carefully fill out the information. By doing a little at once, you will avoid a lot of work in the future.
Write in the comments if you store confidential information on the Internet. Is it worth it?
