If y'all have multiple Android devices or you're planning on purchasing a new smartphone in the about future, you know that all of your Google contacts will be viewable by whatsoever Android device you associate with your Google business relationship. But what about those contacts isolated to your telephone's local storage? Since those aren't stored in your Google cloud, they won't be bachelor to other devices. So, how do you solve that conundrum?

Easy… you lot drift you contacts from the local storage to your Google account. I'll show you how to exercise that in two easy steps. (This tip assumes that you lot have a device associated with a Google account, and it contains a number of contacts on the local storage.)

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Step 1: Export

Follow these steps to export your contacts:

  1. Open up the Contacts app on your Android device.
  2. Tap the app's Overflow menu (iii horizontal lines in the upper left corner).
  3. Tap Settings from the side bar carte.
  4. Tap Export.
  5. Give the file a proper name and tap SAVE (Figure A).

Effigy A

Step ii: Import

  1. Open the Contacts app.
  2. Tap the app's Overflow menu.
  3. Tap Settings.
  4. Tap Import.
  5. Tap Google.
  6. Select Import vCard file.
  7. Locate and tap the vCard file to be imported.
  8. Permit the import to complete.

By default, all of your contacts on your device will be automatically synced with your Google account, and then at that place is no further action.

Editor's note: The steps in this commodity were updated on Feb. 16, 2019.