Transfer Contacts from Google to Your Phone

As your business grows, so does your contact database. Your phone’s contact list and Google contacts will become more important over time. However, it can also become more difficult to manage. It is crucial to organize your contacts if you have a growing business. The sooner you get started, the better.

Gmail is one the most widely used email services, making Google Contacts (its native tool for managing contacts) an extremely convenient service. It makes perfect sense to connect Gmail and your mobile phone if you use Gmail for business.

Is it safe to store my phone contacts?

To manage your phone contacts effectively, you must first ask: Where are my phone contacts stored?

Your contacts will “live” on your phone’s memory if you don’t have any associated cloud services. Most people use iCloud, Google Contacts or Outlook to access their contacts. If this is your situation, your contacts in your phone’s contact books may be pulling information from one of these places.

Multiple contact repositories can cause chaos. If you have an iPhone and create a contact on it, it will automatically go to iCloud, but not Outlook or Google Contacts.

How to import contacts from Google to iPhone (iOS).

Go to Settings > Passwords and Accounts to see which accounts are associated with your iPhone.

Here’s how to add your Google account to your phone if it isn’t already:

1. Go to Settings > Accounts> > Add an Account.
2. All the accounts that you can associate your phone with will be displayed: iCloud and MS Exchange, Yahoo!!, AOL Outlook, Outlook, Google, and Yahoo!
3. Log in using your email address and password.
4. The menu will allow you to choose which elements from your Account should be synchronized with your phone. Make sure that the toggle button for “Contacts” is turned on.
5. Google Contacts labels can be used to group or categorize contacts. However, these labels will not be displayed on your iPhone’s contact list.
6. These simple steps will allow you to add a contact to Google and have it appear on your iPhone.
7. To see your Google Contacts and contacts stored in other repositories as well, open your iPhone Contacts (the contact book) and click on “Groups” (top-left corner).

From iPhone Contacts to Google Contacts

1. Your Google Contacts are not available on your iPhone. However, it does not mean that any new contacts you add will be available in Google Contacts.
2. This can be done by going to Settings > Contacts.
3. iCloud will likely be your default account. All contacts created on your iPhone are stored exclusively in iCloud.
4. You might change your default account to Gmail if you have Google Contacts as your primary contact repository. Each new contact saved to your iPhone will then be saved in Google Contacts.
5. What about all the contacts you created before Google contacts were available on your iPhone?
6. Google Drive is a great way to import phone contacts you created before setting up Google. Follow these steps:
   1. Download Google Drive for your iPhone and sign in to your Google account.
   2. Go to Settings > Backup in your Google Drive menu. You can choose ‘Contacts’ from the drop-down menu and click ‘Start backup’.

How to import contacts from Google to your Android

1. You can link your Google account to your Android phone by going to Settings > Accounts > Create Account.
   1. 1. Go to Settings >Google > Account Services >Contacts Sync > Automatically synchronize Google Contacts.
      2. The toggle can be turned on/off.
2. You can view and manage Google labels that you use to group contacts within Google Contacts.

Advanced Phone Contact Storage Techniques

1. You might also want to ensure that your Google contacts are connected to your phone address book.

Keep your contacts in sync with other apps.

1. You should consider keeping your apps in sync if your business grows and adds new apps to your technology environment. While integration does not allow for data isolation, it can enrich your databases with customer information.
2. Your CRM is the first tool you should have in sync with Google Contacts. These tools will allow you to centralize your contact information by working together. This type of integration is so effective that one of the best-of-breed CRMs offers in-app integrations to Google products. This makes it simple to get started.
3. You can integrate with multiple contact repositories if you choose to do so.

Filter which contacts should be in sync with your phone

1. You use your phone for personal and business purposes. You will need to filter the information on your phone at some point.
2. An iPaaS (or native integration ) can be used to limit the number of contacts you have on your phone. This is similar to the one HubSpot offers for Google Contacts. These tools can filter the contacts you want to sync with Google Contacts and vice versa.