4 simple steps to download Your PHONE contacts from Google Account

 4 simple steps to download Your PHONE contacts from Google Account

I remember when i was growing up, the early phase of phone production. I used to write down my phone contacts in phone safely in a book. That was before i noticed that our contacts can be kept safely on our Google account. Gone are the days where you need to write all your contacts into a note book or upload to any paid cloud to keep all your contacts safe. Google account to keep all your contacts safe at no cost and no extra effort. All you need to do is to save your contact in your phone and google will handle the rest. Remember to keep your google account backup to auto-synchronization.

Phone upgrade or loss sometimes seems inevitable however, saving your contacts to the new phone becomes a tug of war for you, this is where the main work is. Just ensure that your contacts are backup on your google account to save yourself some stress in cases like this.

If you need to retrieve the contacts in your former phone, then my question for you is "do you have google account logged in the former phone and do you have your contacts backup set to auto-sync?". If you have google account logged in on the former phone, you have your contacts backup set to auto-sync and you want to retrieve all your contacts to your new phone, then, read to learn how you can view your saved contacts or download your Google contacts in four simple steps. 

The 4 simple steps:

Step 1: Check in into your Google Account

Log in to your google account to access your contacts that has been backed up automatically when you saved your contact in your phone. Doing this is simple, you would just have to visit the Google account home page and sign in or just sign to your account on your phone.

Getting to the step above, i assume that you already have an account with Google but if you don't have an account yet, then you will need to go and create one. You can create an account by first visiting Google Account creating homepage and click on Create An Account, complete the mandatory details needed for account creation, then proceed to the next step. Complete the whole account creation process and submit the form. When done with the account creation, don't forget to turn on auto synchronization so you don't have to do any extra thing for your contacts back up to your google account. This is probably a situation where you want to download your contacts from your former google account to the new account you created if you just did.

2) Go to the Contacts section

Getting to this point, i assume you already have the Google account, have saved all your contacts to your phone, you have your phone in auto synchronize mode and your contacts have auto backed up. If the above assumption is true, open your browser and head over to Google's main page and log in.

After you have signed in, Click the Google Apps Dot Menu present on top right side of page. That would be a 9-button small box. It will open up an app list.

Click on the Contacts from the list. This will take you to your Google account's main Contacts section. While browsing from your Mobile, you must be able to find your contacts on people & sharing section of your google account. In this area, you will find all the required contact information for all your saved contacts.

To download these contacts click on the ‘More’ button at the right upper corner of the page. From here, choose the button that says 'Export'. Then you can move to the next step which is downloading your phone contacts from Google. You can use the below picture for reference.

3) Select the Export option

When you are in the Contacts section of your Google account, choose Export. You will be able to see this at the top of your page or on your left side under the menu.

After clicking on the Export option a dialogue box will popup where you can specify which contacts to export. You can EXPORT ALL Contacts or select individual contacts on the list. You can use the screenshot below as a guide.

4) Choose the file type and location

You can choose the file type and save location by clicking on the ‘Export’ button which will bring a pop-up screen, where you get to choose which file type you need and your exported contacts preferred location. For me, the best file type is normally CSV format type and i am sure you will like it too. The CSV file format can be considered as the universal file format because the application to read it with is readily available.

You can choose where to save the file by selecting save to drive or save to computer. If you click on “Save to Drive”, it will save the file in your Google Drive. Click the “Export” button after selecting your preferred file type and location to finalize the process. At this point, your contacts should start downloading and will save into you preferred location. You can use the screenshot below as reference.

Now, that you've read through this article, i am pretty sure you can export and download you phone contacts now. If you have any question, feel free to use the comment section of this post.