Edit or delete contacts

Later on you add contacts to your Android device, you can make changes or delete them.

Contacts saved to your Google Account volition sync with Google Contacts and all your Android devices.

Change contact details

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact you want to edit.
  3. At the top right, tap Edit .
  4. If asked, choose the business relationship.
  5. Enter the contact'southward proper noun, email, and phone number.
    • To enter more data, tap More fields or the Downwards arrow Down arrow.
  6. To alter the photo for a contact, tap the photograph, and so choose an option.
  7. Tap Save.

Add a contact to your favorites

You can put people you lot contact oft at the elevation of your listing.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact yous want to add to your favorites.
  3. At the top, tap Favorite .

Delete contacts

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Select an option.
  3. Your deleted contacts are moved to your Trash.
    • Later 30 days in your Trash, contacts are deleted permanently.
  4. To delete contacts permanently, in your Trash:

Recover deleted contacts

If yous deleted a contact in the concluding 30 days, you tin move it out of your Trash.

  • To open Trash, y'all demand to have automatic sync turned on. Learn how to turn on automated sync for Google Contacts.
  • Trash is only available when your device is online. If your device is offline or doesn't have a network connection, it won't load until you get online.

Of import: If the deleted contact wasn't stored in your Google Account, you can't recover it. Learn how to back upwards your contacts to your Google Account.

Undo changes to contacts

You can undo any changes you made to your contacts during the by 30 days, all at once.

Important: Contacts deleted permanently from your Trash can't be recovered.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture and then Contacts app settings.
  3. Under "Edit contacts," tap Disengage changes. If asked, choose which Google Account you desire to change.
  4. Choose a time to go back to.
  5. Tap Confirm.

Tip: When you restore contacts to a certain time, such equally one week ago, any contacts added after that time won't show up. Learn how to export your electric current contacts and add them back subsequently.

Block contacts

When you block a number, you won't receive calls or text from that number anymore. If a contact has more than ane number, all phone numbers that the person has will be blocked.

You also tin can report them every bit a spammer.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact you lot want to block.
  3. At the top right, tap More than More and then Block numbers and then Cake.
    • Block only one number: Press simply on the number.
    • Spam caller: Check the box for "Written report every bit spam."

To unblock a contact, tap More More and then Unblock numbers and then Unblock.

View blocked numbers

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. At the bottom, tap Fix & manage and then Blocked numbers.

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