on February 5, 2016, 1:37 PM PST If you need to switch Google accounts on your smartphone and you're concerned about losing contacts, fear not. Here's how to import and export your Google contacts. You’ve decided to change the Google account you use on your Android device. Wiping the device isn’t necessary, though your contacts may not
follow along for the ride. If that happens, what do you do? You migrate your contacts with the help of the Google Contacts import/export tool. It’s actually quite simple and isn’t relegated to you importing/exporting contacts of your Google accounts. In fact, you can use this to share contacts with other users (or import your Google work contacts into your Google personal account). SEE:
Power checklist: Managing and troubleshooting cloud storage How to export and import your contactsWhile this task can be done from within the Google Contacts app, it’s much easier to manage from the Google Contacts page. (Note: Exporting and importing isn’t supported by the new Contacts page yet.) Once you’re on that page, do the following.
Figure A Exporting contacts from the source account.Log out of the source account and log into the destination account. You’ll follow the same process except select Import from the More drop-down. Then click the Choose File button, navigate to the file you just saved, and click Import. Now you can add the new Google account to your device, remove the old account, and wait for your contacts to sync to the phone. Export and import contacts from your mobile deviceYou can also do this from the device. Here are the steps.
The bottom lineWith these steps you can easily manage your Google cloud contacts, regardless of device or account; you don’t have to rely on third-party apps to help migrate your Google contacts from one account or device to another — you can just follow the steps in this tip. These instructions can also be used to add new contacts to an existing account. Also See
Once you have put together a useful contact list in Gmail, you might need to move that list to another account. Without using an automated method, you'd need to enter each contact manually, which could be very time-consuming depending on how many contacts you have. Whether you create a new email account or you have workers who need your contact list, you can export and then import some or all of your contacts from one Gmail account to another. Transferring these contacts usually doesn't take more than a few minutes, and you can even reuse the exported contact list later if you want. Exporting
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