🌠Probably one of the most valuable things you can have on your Android device is your list of contacts. Everything from work, friends, family, etc. It’s terrible if all of them go missing at the same time.
It doesn’t matter if you have accidentally deleted your contacts, or if they were lost while you were rooting your Android device.
🌠In most cases, however, your Android contacts only seem to be deleted or lost when you can’t find them. In this post, I will walk you through the steps how you can recover seemingly lost contacts and how to recover deleted ones.
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Maybe your contacts aren’t even gone
🌠Sometimes the settings on your Android device can go completely nuts, up until the point where you can’t even find your contacts and think you have lost them all. Before you start freaking out, there is a chance that all your contacts are still on your device, just hidden very carefully. To check if that’s the case, follow these simple steps:
- Open the “Contacts” app✓
- Press on the menu in the top-right✓
- corner (three vertical dots)✓
- “Contacts to display”✓
- Select “All contacts” if it isn’t already✓
🌠If “All contacts” hasn’t been selected, then this was probably the solution to your problem. However, if all contacts were already displayed, let’s try something else…
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Restoring Android contacts with Gmail
🌠If your Android device is synced with your Google account, the odds of recovering missing contacts are definitively in your favor. Gmail has a notifty feature, that allows you to restore a backup of all your contacts, which can date up to 30 days back. Once you have done this, you can re-sync your device with your Google account and get all your contacts back.
👉Note: if your contacts are appearing in Gmail but not on your phone, see the steps above and/or try re-syncing your Google accounts completely.
🌠To restore a backup of your Gmail contacts, go to your inbox and select “Contacts” from the dropdown menu on your left hand side.
🌠Once you see the list of your contacts (or not), click on “More” to get to the dropdown menu, where you need to select the option “Restore contacts…”.
🌠Now you should see this pop-up window, where you can select a backup, which can date back as far as 30 days. If this method worked for you, go ahead and re-sync your Google account on your Android device and you should be good to go.
If you know of any other way that might help fellow Android users to get their lost contacts back, please share it in the comments and help future readers!
👉Thank you👈
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