Edit or delete contacts

Subsequently you add contacts to your Android device, you tin brand changes or delete them.

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

Change contact details

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact y'all want to edit.
  3. At the peak right, tap Edit .
  4. If asked, cull the account.
  5. Enter the contact's name, email, and phone number.
    • To enter more than information, tap More than fields or the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. To change the photo for a contact, tap the photo, so choose an option.
  7. Tap Save.

Add a contact to your favorites

Y'all tin can put people you contact often at the top of your list.

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

Delete contacts

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

Recover deleted contacts

If you deleted a contact in the last xxx days, y'all can move it out of your Trash.

  • To open Trash, you demand to have automatic sync turned on. Learn how to plow on automated sync for Google Contacts.
  • Trash is only bachelor when your device is online. If your device is offline or doesn't have a network connection, information technology won't load until you go online.

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

Undo changes to contacts

Yous can undo any changes you lot made to your contacts during the past 30 days, all at once.

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

  1. On your Android telephone 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 Undo changes. If asked, choose which Google Account y'all desire to change.
  4. Cull a time to go back to.
  5. Tap Confirm.

Tip: When you restore contacts to a certain time, such as i week ago, any contacts added later on that time won't evidence upward. Acquire how to export your current contacts and add together them back after.

Cake contacts

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

You besides tin can report them as a spammer.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact you want to block.
  3. At the tiptop right, tap More than More and then Cake numbers and then Block.
    • Block only 1 number: Press only on the number.
    • Spam caller: Check the box for "Report as 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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