Google will delete your contacts? Watch out for this feature!
It was in May that the Californian company announced its major cleaning project. In a communicated, Google has thus affirmed its intention to delete all Gmail accounts that have been inactive for more than two years., and with them all their content on Google Workspace (Drive, Meet, Calendar, Photos…). If the official argument is based on questions of overall security of its services, we now know that the company seeks above all to free up space on its servers.
Your phone contacts will disappear
The announcement of the deletion of the accounts had not gone unnoticed, we had talked about it at the time. However, another, more discreet change was announced at the same time by the company. Thus, Google will also stop the local backup of contacts on a smartphone. From now on, all the coordinates that will not be synchronized with the Cloud of your Google account will disappear each time you change your Android device.
How to keep your contact list on Android?
A radical change, which raises many questions of privacy and confidentiality. But now that the announcement is made, one wonders how to still keep his contacts on his Google account. For that, nothing very complicated:
- From the app contacts of your Android smartphone
- Go to your account from your Profile picture
- Select the Settings from the contact application
- On this page, go to Google Contacts sync settings
- Select sync account
- Press on Synchronize automatically
Everything is good, your contacts will not disappear into oblivion the next time you change your smartphone.
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