Google Contacts now lets you recover deleted contacts

Did you delete one of your contacts in an angry mood, or did you accidentally click delete? Previously, in Contacts apps on Android, this meant that the contact could be considered lost. With the advent of the recycle bin, Google offers a solution for that. If you click on delete too quickly, you can restore the contact later.

Google Contacts

Deleting contacts is most likely not something you do on a daily basis. Deleting contacts from your contact list can sometimes be a tough decision, especially considering that deleting most of the time – especially in your local contact list apps on Android – is a final decision. After you select to allow the app to delete all contact details, you cannot go back in time to retrieve the contact details, which of course also applies to other data associated with a contact. Google’s Contacts app solved this in the web application with a recycle bin, a recycle bin that this time makes its entrance on Android.

The Contacts web app allowed you to restore contacts you deleted from your mobile for 30 days, but after a recent Contacts update, you’ll find a similar trash can in the app’s hamburger menu on Android. At the top of the trash can – which only appeared in the editors after the app was restarted after deleting a contact – you will find a button to permanently delete the contacts from your phone and from your Google account. If you click on a contact in the trash, you will immediately see the option to restore the contact.

The same end date applies here as for the web application of contacts. So if a contact is still in the trash after 30 days, it will be automatically deleted. So don’t see it as an archive to store your old contacts; after all, you run the risk of permanently losing (important) old contacts.

Roll out trash in Contacts

It is not known when Google released the trash can for Contacts, Android Police writes. What is known, according to the website, is that Google released the feature on Android between February and the end of June. It is striking that Google has released the function silently, an announcement of the function is not available, while it could provide an important advantage for many Android users.

Do you ever use the (digital) recycle bin to recover files, or do you permanently delete them? Be sure to let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article.