How to Back Up Android Contacts to Google

Your Android phone's contacts contain years of saved phone numbers and email addresses. If your phone is lost, broken, or replaced, those contacts could all disappear — unless they are backed up to your Google account.

When your contacts are synced to Google, every contact you save appears at contacts.google.com on your computer and automatically appears on any new Android phone where you sign in with the same Google account. This makes switching phones or getting a replacement device completely painless.

Most Android phones are set up to sync contacts to Google automatically during the initial setup, but it is worth confirming this is actually happening. This guide walks you through checking and turning on the sync.

The process is slightly different depending on the brand of your Android phone (Samsung, Google Pixel, Motorola, etc.), but the general steps are the same across all Android devices. The settings are found either in the phone's main Settings app or inside the Google Contacts app.

Google account sync uses very little data and runs in the background — you will not notice it happening. Any time you add, edit, or delete a contact on your phone, the change syncs to Google within a few minutes.