Backup contacts on an android smartphone before you lose all of your contacts. when you lose contacts unconditionally, then we can restore them easily from backup.
some people lose their contacts because they delete them mistakenly. some people changed their smartphone and some loose when smartphone got stolen.
in today's tutorial, we use the Google contact official app to backup all sim card contacts to an online Gmail account.
this is the best portable and safe way to use your Gmail account for online contact backup.
after changing your smartphone or when you lose it. you can easily access all of your contacts by just installing again the google contact official app on your new smartphone.
and then sign in to your Gmail account that you use previously for contacts backup.
How to backup contacts on an android phone step by step:
open play store and type google contact
install it and open it
after opening the contact app tap on the upper left side 3 lines
the side menu will appear.
now in the side menu tap on settings.
in the setting, menu tap on import just below manage contacts
import means you have to backup contact from the target location.
in the small window, you have to choose your target sim cards you wanna backup contacts for.
you can also choose to back up contacts from the .vcf file you create for your contacts.
now your targeted contacts from sim cards are selected already. now you have to choose your desired Gmail account to use for the backup.
and then tap on import.
Now all done check the backup process by sliding the notification drawer.
Note:
This tutorial is applicable to backup your contacts from your sim cards to your online Gmail account.
however, if you want to backup contacts from a device to an online account it's also easy you can find all settings easily in the google contact app.
