How to restore your Google Contacts
Many small and mid-size businesses rely heavily on contacts stored on their mobile phones But what happens if for some reason you lose a contact or they are accidentally deleted due to a faulty application, it can be quite traumatic, to say the least. In fact, does anyone know they partner mobile number off the top of their head, so what would happen if you lost that?
How to restore contacts from Google Contacts web interface
Well, if you’re using an Android phone and Google contacts you’re in luck as Google is backing up your contacts and it’s possible to recover them. Hidden away within the Google contacts web interface https://contacts google com is a neat undo changes option
Google Contacts – Settings
To restore your Google contacts, you just need to click on the cog icon and select “Undo changes“ Once you select this the following dialogue box will appear
From here you will be able to put your contacts back to how they were and bring back the contacts you deleted or lost. You can choose from a few different options from 10 mins to a maximum of 30 days or anywhere in between However, be aware that if you’ve recently added new Google contacts these will be removed So if you’ve added a lot of contacts you Export all your contacts just in case
Export Google Contacts
How to restore contacts from a backup on your phone
Another method in which you can restore your Google contacts is via the contact backups on your Android device. In order to do this, you’ll need to access the “Settings” menu from within the Google Contacts App From here you have a few options, “Restore” as well as the “Undo changes” as discussed above
Google ContactApp – Settings
To restore contacts from a backup you’re going to have to select “Restore“ From the restore section of the app you can restore all the contacts from a previousAndroid backup
Again, if any contacts have been added since the last backup they will be removed when you perform your restore, so take an export so you keen all your current contacts.
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