A major change in the method of syncing contacts in smartphones

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Now there has been a big change in the way our contacts are stored in our Google account and on our smartphones. If you use different smartphones for personal use and office use but have the same Google account for both purposes , then this change will be fine for you , but otherwise the change may be very confusing for the average user. The reason is that if you sometimes go to the settings related to your Google account on the phone, then with one click, all the contacts visible on your phone can disappear!

About this change   Before doing that, let's talk about how contacts are stored in our Google account and smartphone.

How are contacts stored now ?

In smartphones we can save contacts in the internal memory of the phone , in the SIM card of the phone and in the cloud account like Google/Apple. But you must know that it is imperative to store all our contacts in the Google account if it is an Android phone and in the Apple account if it is an iPhone.

Talking about the Google account, the different things saved in it can be accessed in any device through the cloud. For this reason, if we get a new Android phone and log in with the same Google account that we used in the previous Android phone, then many of the original details of the old phone are transferred to the new phone. We don't have to transfer anything manually.   The only condition is that in the old phone we should have kept the setting on to backup everything to the Google account. Contacts are among the details that are automatically transferred from the old phone to the new phone.

So far, if we add our Google account to any phone and go to its settings and turn on the button to keep the contacts in sync, all the contacts saved in the same account in the cloud also come to the smartphone. After that, if we save new contacts in that smartphone, it reaches the cloud.

Now contacts can disappear , if you…

Now read carefully. So far, even if we turn off the sync button for contacts in the smartphone, the contacts that came to the phone remained as they were. If you want to remove it, you have to remove the entire Google account from the phone.

Now as per the new change the situation has changed. If we accidentally turn off the button to keep the contacts sync in the Google account in the phone, then all the contacts in that account , stored in the phone will disappear!

No need to worry though

All your contacts will be in Google Cloud. So if it sometimes happens that you stop seeing many real contacts on the phone, it could be because of this new change and you have mistakenly turned off the sync button for contacts. This is all we have to do to recover the contacts: in the settings of the phone, in the settings of the Google account, if the sync button for contacts is off, turn it on.

What is the reason for such a change ? The reason is that as mentioned in the beginning of the article, many people keep different phones for personal and office use, but the Google account is the same. Hence personal and office contacts were mixed up in both the phones. Due to the new change, these people will be able to keep personal contacts in the personal phone and office contacts in the phone for office use.