A problem that many users have encountered at some point is that your android phone contact list disappear. We keep track of the phone numbers of the people we interact with most often through a pre-installed Android Contacts app. It can cause a lot of stress for many users to have their contacts deleted from their mobile phone.
Fortunately, this is something we can easily solve. If your contacts have disappeared on your Android device, here's how to fix the problem. Since you can retrieve them and put them back in your address book, your contacts will be back on your Android phone.
Causes of list contacts disappearing on Android
Many Android users have probably come across this scenario. Although these contacts they haven't really been erased, this is not something that happens on Android phones. You may have accidentally deleted them if you used an Android phone and didn't know how to use it before, as this is something that can happen. It is possible to repair this problem.
There are no bugs or errors in the Android operating system that cause contacts to be completely eradicated. The process of completely deleting all our contacts on our Android phone is not a single action or a wrong button press, but several steps are required precisely to prevent accidental deletion. You will never have to worry about your lost contacts again, since you can recover them at any time, so you can rest easy.
Recover missing contacts
It is possible that your contacts have disappeared from your address book on your phone as if by magic. There is always a method to recover contacts on our devices, whether we use an Android contacts app or not. We will always have an option if we want to recover deleted contacts on Android. All the steps offered by these apps are the same, so there is no need to worry if this needs to be done.
There are a number of options available for us on Android if we need to recover deleted contacts. It is good to know these methods in case we find ourselves in this situation. You won't have to install any third-party application to recover deleted contacts with operating system tools.
Contacts app
There is a possibility that the contacts have not been deleted, but the contacts of the application of contacts come from a different source. Their origin is shown, not where they are stored.
The contacts may be stored on our SIM card but are displayed on the phone itself, so it seems that we have deleted them when it is not. To make sure, we must check it in the app itself. It is easy to access the contacts app on Android and solve this problem.
You can choose the origin of these contacts in the app settings. When you navigate to the app settings, you will see several options related to the origin of these contacts:
- All contacts: all contacts from all sources will appear. This should be the default option in most cases.
- Contacts on the SIM: Only those stored in the SIM card memory appear.
- Contacts on the phone: only those stored in the internal memory of the mobile.
- Google account: those that are synchronized with your Google account and that are in the cloud will appear, where they will not be lost. It is likely that they coincide with the same as the first point, that is, all of them. Although this is not always the case... On the other hand, I would like to point out that you can also have several Google accounts and have several calendars synchronized at the same time.
Act quickly. examine default option of the app to see if it has been changed. Normally, our contacts are saved on the SIM, but if they don't appear in the app, we assume that they have disappeared on Android. Therefore, we must select the alternative source where we have saved those contacts, so that they appear again in the app as in the past.
You can see the number of contacts that have been saved with each source by clicking on it, so use this data as a guide if you think you have left some. Normally, this method will work and your contacts will reappear in the contacts app on Android. However, if it doesn't, there's another step we need to take.
Google account (synchronization)
Synchronize contacts with your Gmail address to have them stored in your Google account it is something habitual. On Android devices, contacts can also be synced so they're always up-to-date and safe in the cloud, never lost, and available anywhere you have a network connection. Thus, we can always access the contact information that we store on our phone through Google services. You'll be able to see things like their phone number or email address.
The problem is that sync function is not working on the phone and, as a result, the contacts are not displayed. Keeping Google's contact sync feature turned on is the best way to make sure your contacts keep showing up all the time.
It also works at the same time as a backup and allows us to restore all our contacts if we get a new phone or restore it from scratch. To do this, you can go to the Settings app> Accounts and synchronization> Google> click on your GMAIL account with which you want to synchronize and the synchronization options will appear. Make sure Contacts is on.
"Trash" of the Calendar
Some Android users may not be able to perform this function as it depends on the phone manufacturer and if you have blocked such option in custom UI. Some manufacturers, such as Samsung, keep the deleted contacts in a recycle bin instead of directly or permanently deleting them, so we can recover them within 30 days. If contacts appear to be missing on an Android device, they may have been placed in the trash if that option is available.
Going through the settings of the contacts app on Android is beneficial. It is possible that in the settings of this app we have a trash can where deleted contacts are stored for a month. It is normal to find an option in the app Settings to manage or categorize our contacts. That is where we would find a trash can if we have recently deleted contacts from the app.
All mistakenly deleted contact list entries are in this bin, we may be able to get them back. To restore all our contacts, we must press the 'Restore' button or select 'All contacts' and then 'Restore', so that we can see them again in our agenda.
This is a simple procedure that will work effectively, so if your Android contacts app has a trash can, we should check it whenever contacts have disappeared for no apparent reason.
Restore your Android backup
On our mobile, Google does frequent backups (if we have this option activated). This is a great method to ensure that we don't lose any data if our phone malfunctions or has problems.
We can use this on our new phone if the old one breaks or if we buy a new one to have all our data back. We can also use it in situations where our contacts are gone or deleted from our phone.
To access this configuration you must go to:
- Settings of your Android.
- Then to the Google section.
- Once there in Configure and restore.
- Within this section you can find several options, such as Restore contacts, which is the one that interests us in this case.
These phone contacts are to be restored from backup that we have previously generated. We will be able to see that they have been restored in the phone book almost immediately, which indicates that we have carried out the process without any problem.
To safeguard the data on our Android phone, we must make backup copies on a regular basis, as it is an easy method to do and can save us many problems in the future.