Contacts become the nucleus of any Smartphone regardless of the operating system (OS) such as Android, iOS, Windows etc as you need to communicate with your friends, colleagues, and other business people frequently with your handheld mobile device. So it’s easily understandable that how important it’s to manage contacts on mobile devices. In this article, we will discuss broadly about how to manage, edit, backup and restore Android contacts.
Managing Android contacts is related to editing, hiding or doing the opposite, blocking, backing up, restoring of the contacts. All these sorts of management for contacts on Android are being discussed now.
To edit contacts on Android, you will need to backup Android contacts to computer as well as restore contacts every now and then. For importing and exporting contacts on Android, we will talk about a great app called Wondershare TunesGo. The advent of TunesGo’s intuitive and easy to use feature, you will not have to wait no more for importing contacts from other devices to your one as well as exporting contacts from your Android to others. Just follow the simple steps to get your backup or restore contacts done seamlessly.
Step 1 Launch Wondershare TunesGo and connect your Android phone or tablet to PC.
Step 2 Select Information tap. In the contact management window, select group from which you want to export and backup contacts, including your Phone Contacts, SIM Contacts and Accont Contacts.
Step 3 Choose all or selected contacts you want to export. Press on “Export” button from the list of saved contacts, mark the required or all the contacts which you wish to export to PC.
Step 4 For exporting Android contacts, you will have 4 different places to do so. The directories are vCard, Windows Address Book, Outlook 2010/2013/2016 and CSV file.
Step 5 Choose the directory in which you would like to export and backup the contacts. After selecting anyone of the directories, it will start exporting contacts to that directory. By this way, you can export Android contacts to computer for backup.
Step 1 Like before, go to information > Contacts. You would find “Import” button situated just before the “Export” button.
Step 2 In the management window of contact’s management, click on “Import” button situated on the top left corner. You now have 4 different sources for importing your contacts. The sources are vCard, CSV File, Windows Address Book and Outlook 2010/2013/2016.
Step 3Now you will have to choose from which source you will import contacts.
The contacts may be stored in your sim card, phone, Google mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or other many types of accounts. If your contacts are saved on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or other accounts, then you can import the contacts by signing in your required account and import contacts from there.
Editing android contacts may include the task of adding, deleting, grouping contacts. After owning your beloved Android device, you will have to go for saving, deletion as well as groping of different contacts of it. Saving a contact on your Android device is not a tough maneuver and you can also do it with Wondershare TunesGo.
So you see how easy it is to edit contacts on Android.
You may be wondering about how to hide or unhide contacts on Android! Do the following steps to hide or unhide your required contacts to be hidden or unhidden.
Step 1 First of all, create a group from contacts: Open the "Contact" application > Select the Group tab > Hit the Create button.
Step 2 Give a name to the group that you have created. After that, add contacts in the group.
Step 3 Now again visit to the “Contact” application where you will see all the saved contacts. Tap on the menu button and go for "Contacts to Display".
Step 4 You will see "Custom List" which should be located at the bottom. By choosing Custom list menu, you will have the room for hiding contacts as per your need.
Step 5 Now you can mark on the group boxes which you want to see. Don’t mark on the group that you have created just before. After doing this, all your contacts will be shown except the unmarked group’s contacts.
Through this simple way, you can hide contacts on Android.
To unhide the hidden contacts under the hidden group, just go to the “Custom List” again and mark the previously unmarked group, then you could unhide the contacts under the group.
Never worry much about thinking how to block contacts on Android as you can follow these few steps to block any specific number. Choose the Create option and then enter the contact or the number that you want to block. Afterwards, hit the done button to block the contact on Android easily.
You have come to know the easy steps for editing contacts in different ways on your Android devices. Though it is easy to do the process with the native operating system on Android, a reliable app like Wondershare TunesGo can do it far more better way from your PC. The editing process with the app is really blazingly fast. So, to edit contacts on Android, you won’t have hard time doing that if you use aan editing app.
Sep 23,2016 13:58 pm / Posted by Christine Smith to Android Manager
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