It is annoying and frustrating when you lose contacts on your Android phone. Maybe while switching your phone or signing other accounts, contacts can go missing. However, there are workable ways to recover and avoid these kinds of situations.
This article will show the reasons behind contacts disappearing on your Android device in this article. Moreover, we will showcase directions on how to resolve the problem. This tutorial covers all the necessary steps to maintain the safety and accessibility of your contacts, from making sure they sync properly to using backup and recovery options.
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Why are Contacts Disappearing on my Android Phone?
Contacts might disappear for a number of reasons, including unintended deletion, sync problems, or blocked app preferences. Fortunately, these issues are solvable with this guide effectively. Moreover, you won’t get any reoccurrence of contacts disappearing.
How to Fix Contacts Disappearing on Android
Setting up a Google Account
Contacts that vanish from your phone frequently occur due to problems with Google Account syncing. Take the following actions to make sure your contacts are synchronizing correctly:
- Using the device with the missing contacts, go to the Google account page.
- In the blank space, write your email address and hit “Next”.
- Another blank space will show up where you have to write your password.
- If you enable two-factor authentication, you will receive a few digit codes in your email. Open the mail to see the code.
- Enter the code and you will be successfully logged into Google.
Keep in mind that you have to be signed in to the device to properly follow the other methods below. In some cases, just signing up to your Google account will work.
Make Sure Contacts Sync Works
Without changing app data, you may fix problems with deactivated Contacts app options by resetting the app’s choices. Here’s how to accomplish it:
- Go to your phone’s settings.
- Every phone has a section for syncing which is under Accounts & Sync or in other similar names. Go to the syncing option.
- Scroll down till you find Google Sync.
- Enable the sync so that your phone and Google account can synchronize.
In some types of Android phones, you can also manually sync Google with a quick button. So you can sync there and hit the button once to solve this issue.
Reset App Preferences
Without changing app data, you may fix problems with deactivated Contacts app options by resetting the app’s choices. Here’s how to accomplish it:
- Go to Settings, then choose System.
- Click on the Advanced menu.
- Select Reset app preferences by tapping on Reset choices.
- To confirm, choose Reset applications.
After restarting your phone, see if your contacts have returned.
Review Contacts Display Settings
Our contacts are stored in our phone or the sim card. There is even an option to specifically show contacts from a phone or sim card. So if you have set your phone to show contacts from a sim card only, then you may think that contacts have disappeared. So this is how to properly set up the review contacts display settings.
- Open the Contacts app.
- At the top, below the search bar, you will see filters such as Phone contacts and email contacts. If have selected email contacts then your phone will show only those contacts which are also connected to your email.
- On other phones, you have to go to the side menu or settings.
- Go to Contacts settings and then change the display settings.
Whatever device you are using, make sure that there is no filtering going on with your contacts display.
Recover Contacts from a Device Backup
Google Drive Backup is an excellent service that helps Android users easily retrieve their data. If you have previously backed up your contacts to Google Drive, you can recover them easily on a new Android device:
- Sign in to your Google account on the new phone.
- Open the Settings app and select Set up & restore.
- Scroll down and choose Restore contacts.
- If you are using more than one Google account, go to ‘From account’.
- Select the Google account you used for device backup.
- Select the old phone under Device Backup and tap Restore, confirming your password.
Conclusion
If you did not format your device without contacts backup or delete all the contacts, there is a way to get back all your disappeared contacts. The methods basically revolve around tweaking with Google account and your phone’s sync because that is all you do here.
