How To Sync Google Account Contacts To Android Device

Android smartphones or tablets are helping us to ease our daily lives. Now, we can do various things with just some simple touches on the screen of Android devices. There is so much of our personal information on our Android devices that we have to keep secure from cyber theft. Because everyone has a separate smartphone, there are so many contact numbers to remember.

We can save them on an Android device and be street free. However, when Android devices get lost or damaged, then all of our contacts also get lost. The situation can be pretty tough; you can not get back all the contacts ever. To avoid that, one can sync Google Account contacts to Android devices. By doing that, all of your communications will be safe and secure.

How does it work?

Every Android user has to sign up for Google services, which is a cloud-based storage system. Users can link all other Android devices with each other through Google services. If you do not save the Android devices’ contacts as Google contacts, one can only manage these contacts on the device.

To have a backup of all contacts, one has to save all the connections as Google contacts. Once you have done that, you can access those contacts from any other signed-in device. Hence, whenever the Android devices get lost, one can always access all the connections through a different Android device.

Step by step process to sync Google Account contacts to Android devices

Having a backup is an essential thing in life because whenever a situation does not work, one can have something to fall on. Android users can save their contact by backing and saving the contacts as Google contacts. Here is a step by step process to do that:

• Unlock the Android device and open the settings of it.
• After that, tap on the ‘Google.’ It will lead you to ‘account services’ and clicking on that will open ‘Google contact services.’
• Again, you will have to tap on the ‘also sync device contacts.’
• Now, the final touch you have to do is on ‘automatically backup and sync device contacts.’

By choosing the final option, you will have all the Google Accounts you have signed in on the device. One can select any of the accounts, and all the contacts will back up on that particular Google Account.

Perks of Google services

By saving the contacts on Android devices as Google contacts, one can have safety options. Here are some of the perks:

• Once you have activated the option ‘automatically backup and sync device contacts,’ it will store all the new contact you will save on the device to directly your Google Account.
• If you sign out from the Android device, then it will also delete all the contacts from the device. However, the connections will be secure on the Google Account, and you can access them anytime from a different device.

Note: Some Android devices do not automatically back up all the contacts on those devices; one can complete the process manually. It varies from device to device, and one can search that on the internet.

How to stop device contacts saving automatically as Google contacts?

Google services work on very advanced technology, and if the Android users do not want their device contacts to save as Google contacts automatically, then they have the option of turning it off. The process of turning it off is straightforward and almost similar to turning it on. Here are the steps to turn off the option ‘automatically backup and sync device contacts.’

• The first step would be to unlock the Android device and open the ‘Settings’ app.
• Then tap on the ‘Google.’
• The next option on the screen will be ‘account services,’ and by clicking on that, it will open ‘Google contacts sync.’
• After that, tap on the ‘also sync device contacts.’
• The last option will be ‘automatically backup and sync device contacts.’
• Now, to stop the automatic backup of the contacts, one has to turn off the situation. One can always turn it back on if there is any need.

Note: Once you have saved the contacts as Google contacts, you can not get them back until you manually remove them from the Google Account.

Conclusion

Now you know the entire process of syncing Google Account contacts to Android devices. It is a generalized process for all Android devices. If the process does not work for any particular device, then you should go and search about it on the internet.

The process of it might be different for a different Android device, but it is available on every Android device. By doing that, the Android user does not have to worry about memorizing all the contacts. As technology is increasing, smartphones are getting smarter.