Edit or delete contacts

After yous add contacts to your Android device, yous tin brand changes or delete them.

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

Alter contact details

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

Add a contact to your favorites

You can put people you contact ofttimes at the peak of your list.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact y'all want to add to your favorites.
  3. At the tiptop, tap Favorite .

Delete contacts

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Select an pick.
  3. Your deleted contacts are moved to your Trash.
    • After thirty 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 30 days, y'all can move it out of your Trash.

  • To open up Trash, you need to accept automatic sync turned on. Learn how to turn on automated sync for Google Contacts.
  • Trash is just available when your device is online. If your device is offline or doesn't take a network connection, information technology won't load until you go online.

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

Disengage changes to contacts

Yous can disengage whatever changes you made to your contacts during the past 30 days, all at in one case.

Of import: Contacts deleted permanently from your Trash tin can't be recovered.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. At the superlative left, tap Menu Menu and then Settings.
  3. Under "Manage contacts," tap Undo changes. If asked, cull which Google Account yous desire to alter.
  4. Choose a time to go back to.
  5. Tap Ostend.

Tip: When y'all restore contacts to a sure fourth dimension, such as ane calendar week ago, any contacts added subsequently that time won't show upward. Learn how to export your current contacts and add them back afterward.

Block contacts

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

You also can report them every bit a spammer.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
  2. Tap the contact yous want to block.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Block numbers and then Cake.
    • Block just one number: Press only on the number.
    • Spam caller: Check the box for "Written report as spam."

To unblock a contact, tap More More and then Unblock numbers and then Unblock.

View blocked numbers

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Contacts app .
  2. At the pinnacle left, tap Menu Menu and then Settings and then Blocked numbers

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