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Don't lose your contacts anymore!

So what’s your excuse for losing your contacts in this day and age?

Some years ago my mom lost her phone and she got a replacement and asked me to help recover her numbers. So I tried to recover her numbers into her new phone only for me to realize that it was not properly backed up in the lost phone. I remember what she said then “How can I have you and still lose my contacts”. You see I had told her numbers could be backed up and saved over the cloud and I guess I assumed it was done by my sibling so I didn’t bother to cross-check then. After this episode, I always made sure this didn’t happen to anyone I knew.

From the day I got my first real smartphone up until this day I have had my vital documents synced to the cloud and safe from loss. This means that I can access my phone numbers from any of my devices at any time. So we will attempt to guide you on how to sync your contacts so you can access them on all your devices and even when you lose your phones you don’t lose your valuable contacts. 

Statistics show that 88% of mobile phone users in the world use phones that run on Google’s Android OS while 11.9% use iOS  (By the way, the word OS stands for Operating System, and it’s the software that manages how a computer, or in this case a phone, operates and behave and the interaction of the phone with all the different parts and components of the phone). So we will start with the android device.

First. To fully enjoy your android or any smartphone you have to have signed in with your email, in this case, your Gmail account. If you haven’t you can now.


Go to the contact app on your device. At the top right corner are three dots, this is the settings corner of the Contact app.

In it scroll down to the ‘Accounts’ option select the 'Add Account' option


Choose the account profile you will like to sync your contacts with; Google, Yahoo, Outlook (if you have a Gmail you select Google, if like me you use outlook, you select Outlook and so on)

At this point you will be directed to your email provider to sign in to your account with your username and password.


After signing in make sure the tab to sync your contacts is on this will ensure that your contacts are saved to your Google account.

After this procedure whenever you want to save contacts make sure you save contacts to your email address and not to phone or SIM when prompted by your phone.

The beauty of this is that you can access all your contacts on any of your devices by simply going to contacts.google.com and then sign in to your account to view them.

 The above procedures ensure that your contacts are safe even if you misplace your phone. When you get a new phone all you need to do is sign into your email and turn on contacts sync and watch all your contacts appear in your new device like magic.

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