Google Contacts for Android

The Google Contacts  app stores contact information about people and businesses. Contacts can also store personal information about the people in your life, including birthdays, photos, relationships, and more. You can customize your contact information with the information fields you select.

Your contacts are synced between your tablet or phone and your Google account on the web, making your contacts available anywhere, including on your desktop.

Google Contacts comes pre-installed on Pixel phones. Other Android phones may have a manufacturer-specific app to handle contacts. There is nothing wrong with using the manufacturer’s app, but contacts stored in that app will not be available anywhere but that phone.

Google contacts will share contact information with the manufacturer’s app, so a contact added to either will be available in both apps.

Search the Play Store for ‘contacts’ if your phone does not already have the official Google Contacts app. (Make sure the publisher is Google LLC.)

Calling, texting, and more from Contacts

You can start a voice call, text message, Duo video call, email, or Google map directions from their contact information in Contacts.

Contacts options

• To add a new contact, from the Contacts Main screen, tap Add (plus sign), then fill in the fields as needed.
• To add a contact to Favorites, open a contact and tap Favorites  (upper right).
• To change the sort order from first to last name, tap Your Account (round avatar in the upper right corner), then Contact app settings , then Sort by and select Last name.
• To place the contact on a Home screen for quick access, open the contact, tap More , then Add to Home screen.
• To edit a contact, open contact and tap Edit . Scroll to view and add information to the available fields. Note that you can define a relationship (business or personal) and a phonetic name that can help Google select the correct contact when the name is difficult to pronounce.

Suggestions

Google can help you merge duplicate contacts, suggest new contacts you interact with often but haven’t added yet, and restore contacts from a backup to a new phone. Tap Fix & manage.