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Accidentally deleted someone's contact details from your Google account? Fortunately, you can get them back.
These are some steps which can help you to restore your contacts from Google backups | Picture for Representation
By India Today Web Desk: Contacts, offered by Google, helps people to back up the contacts stored on their phone or SIM card. If someone loses or needs to replace their phone, they can restore these contacts on the new phone. Now, if you want to restore contacts which were saved to your Google Account, there are some simple steps you need to know.
Here is the step by step guide to restore your contacts from Google backups.
How to restore contacts from Google backups
If you save your contacts to your Google Account, they automatically show on your phone after you sign in. You won’t need to restore contacts this way.
If needed, these are some steps which can help you to restore your contacts from Google backups.
Steps to restore contacts from Google backups
Follow these steps to restore contacts from your Google backups.
Step 1: First of all, you have to open your phone's Settings app.
Step 2: Then, you need to tap Google.
Step 3: Under "Services," you have to tap Restore contacts.
Step 4: If you have multiple Google Accounts, to choose which account's contacts to restore, you need to tap From account.
Step 5: Then, you have to tap the phone with the contacts to copy.
Step 6: If you don’t want to copy contacts from your SIM card or phone storage, you have to turn off SIM card or Device storage.
Step 7: Tap Restore, then wait until you see "Contacts restored."
Step 8: To avoid duplicates, your phone restores only contacts that it doesn't already have. Your restored contacts also sync to your current Google Account and other devices.
Following these steps can help you to restore your contacts from Google backups.
Please remember, to restore contacts from other apps, like Outlook or WhatsApp, you’ll need to reinstall those apps.
(Source: Contacts Help)
Published On:
Jan 27, 2020