How to back up Contacts on Android phones - Easy Steps

How to back up Contacts on Android phones – Easy Steps


Everyone has an Android Smartphone at this time and everybody has lots of contact details on it. Sometimes you might need to change your smartphone because you are tired of old ones or your phone got damaged and your even cant excess your contact detail.

Here is the solution for yours. In this article, we are going to show you how you can back up your contact detail and save them in a secure place.

You can back up the contacts stored on your device or SIM card and you can use these contacts when you got a new phone.

Android phone is always connected to the google account so you save your contacts to your Google Account, and they automatically show on your device after you sign in. You won’t need to restore contacts this way.

Methods to Backup Contact on Google

1. By making an automatic backup 

You can Set Automatic backup to your Google account by using the following steps.
a) Open your device’s Settings app.

How to back up Android contacts

b) Go to Account: here you will find the google accounts connected to your device where you can back up your contacts and other data like photos, videos, and other files also.


How to back up Android contacts


c)Turn on Automatically sync data and make sure contact is selected for backup.

How to back up Android contacts

2. By Exporting the contacts Google account/SD Card.
You can also Transfer the saved contacts to the Google account directly and to the SD card, email, and phone in the form of Contacts.VCF.
a)Open Contact on your Device.

How to back up Android contacts


b) Click the menu bar on the top right of the page. You will find lots of options there click setting from there.

How to back up Android contacts


c) Go to manage contact and click Export. you will get options to save the contact.vcf select one option and click Export to .vcf file.

How to back up Android contacts


d) Click on to save button storing the data. you can see the data being exported on the right side of the picture.

How to back up Android contacts

Methods to restore Saved contact from contact.vcf file

Steps to Restore contacts 

a) Go to contacts and open settings and click the Import option from there. you will find two options there select .vcf file and click ok.

How to back up Android contacts


b) choose where you want to import the contacts. I want to save the contacts to the device so I have selected the device here.

How to back up Android contacts


After selecting the saved .vcf file you will see contacts are automatically imported to your device.
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