How to save the address book on Gmail

With your mobile device, you now carry out a lot of daily activities and you would not be able to be without it anymore. Precisely for this reason, you are looking for a solution that allows you to save your phone’s address book within Gmail so that you always have a copy of your contacts: don’t you dare imagine how you would do if you were to lose them!

Well, if this is the way things are, I don’t see why you shouldn’t succeed: if you need a hand to carry out this procedure, I’m more than happy to offer it. Saving the address book on Gmail is a fairly simple procedure to carry out that can be performed from the official website of the Webmail service and also through the settings of your Android or iOS mobile device.

How do you say? Are you eager to find out more? Would you like to know how to carry out this operation without a margin of error? Okay, then I suggest you sit comfortably in front of your PC and take a few minutes of free time to devote to carefully reading this tutorial of mine. I wish you a good reading and a good “job”.

Index:

• Import the address book to Gmail
• Save the address book to Gmail from Android
• Save the address book to Gmail from iOS
• Save the address book to Gmail from a PC email client

Import the address book to Gmail

The first procedure that I suggest you carry out to save the contacts in an address book within the Gmail Webmail service requires that you have to act through the official Gmail website in order to import your contacts in the relevant section. to those of this email service.

To carry out this procedure, you must then open the browser you usually use for browsing the Internet (for example Google Chrome or Safari) in order to connect to the Gmail home page and then press the Login button that you can see located at the top right. In this way you can then log in with your Google account data: you will then have to indicate the email address and password relating to your account by pressing the Next button when requested.

If, on the other hand, you have not yet registered for this Webmail service and therefore do not have an account, then first of all you will have to press the Create Account button and then follow the on-screen procedure for creating a Gmail account. In this regard, if you need more explanations on how to proceed, I invite you to read my guide dedicated to the topic in which I explain step by step the procedures to be carried out.

Once you are in the main screen of Google Webmail you can begin to follow the steps that I will show you in the following lines, which will allow you to import the address book you have in the Gmail e-mail service.

The first thing you need to do is click on the icon with the nine squares located at the top right and select the Contacts item from the menu that opens, in order to view the Gmail contact management page . Once you see the section containing all the contacts in your address book on Gmail on the screen, you can save your contacts in it by clicking on the More button and then on the Import button. A menu will appear to choose the Webmail service from which to import contacts into Gmail.

The available options concern the import of contacts from accounts such as Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, AOL, and also other providers such as the Apple account. Consequently, just click on the provider for which you have contacts and for which you need to save them on Gmail, enter the relevant login credentials and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the procedure.

Note that it is also possible to save contacts on Gmail in the traditional way, by uploading a CSV or vCard file. In the latter case, after clicking on the More button and the Import button, you have to press the Select file button, choose the file with the contacts you want to import into Gmail and press Import.

If you want to carry out the reverse procedure and, that is, you want to export the Gmail address book to your computer, click the More button and then the Import button from the left sidebar and follow the instructions in my tutorial on how to export contacts from Gmail.

Save the address book to Gmail from Android

If you have an Android device, the procedure you need to perform to save the address book in Gmail is even easier, as you just need to activate the synchronization of contacts related to the Google account of your device.

Then start the Settings app of your device (it is the one with the symbol of a gear that is on the home screen), then you will have to tap on the  Account > Google items and you will have to select your  Gmail address, in order to view the options related to online data synchronization.

In this regard, locate the wording Contacts and move the lever from OFF to ON, in order to activate the synchronization of the same. By carrying out this specific operation, you will ensure that the address book of your Android mobile device is saved online on Gmail; consequently, if you add a new contact in the address book, you can also view it within the well-known Webmail service.

If you have not yet configured a Google account on your device or you want to save the address book to an account other than the one set on the device, go to the Settings> Account menu, select the  Add account from the latter and press the Google logo and then log in to your Gmail address.

Save the address book to Gmail from iOS

Even iOS lets you synchronize your contacts with Gmail, but we must point out one important thing: the procedure in question only allows to download on the iPhone (or iPad) address book contacts from Gmail, and save it on the new contacts that are created on the device. Contacts that are already on the iPhone (or iPad) are not synced. To synchronize them, you must first export them as a CSV or VCF file and then import them into Gmail following the procedure described in the initial chapter of this tutorial.

To proceed with exporting contacts from iOS, install the My Contacts Backup application which in its free version allows you to save up to 500 contacts. To export more contacts, you need to purchase the full version of the app for € 2.29. The operation of My Contacts Backup is disarmingly simple: after starting the app and giving it permission to access the iOS address book, tap on the gear icon located at the bottom right and choose whether to save the contacts in the form of a vCard (VCF) or CSV file.

Then tap on the Finish button located at the top left, press the Backup button and wait for the saving of the contacts to be completed. If you get a warning that the backup file size is getting too large and you need to remove contact photos, accept.

Finally, click on the E-mail button and auto-sent the VCF or CSV file with the contacts in the iOS address book. Once this is done, import the contacts into Gmail as explained at the beginning of the post.

Now you can move on to downloading and syncing Gmail contacts with iOS later. To do this, you need to add your Google account to your iPhone (or iPad) settings.

From the main screen of your device, then tap on the Settings icon  (which has the symbol of a gear ), locate the wording Account and password and tap on it, in order to view the section dedicated to connected accounts inside your device.

Pigia, therefore, on the wording Add account and then on the Google entry, so that you are asked to log in with your Google account data and save the address book of your iOS device on Gmail. Then log in and choose which items you want to sync with your iPhone / iPad.

In case you want to synchronize only the contacts in the address book with Gmail, move only the lever placed next to the wording Contacts from OFF to ON . Then press the Save button located in the upper right corner to confirm the operations you have chosen to carry out.

After this step, you need to set the Gmail address book as the default iOS address book, so that all new contacts are saved in it. Then go to the Settings menu  > Contacts> Default account and select the item related to  Gmail from the screen that opens.

Once you have carried out these operations you can use your iOS smartphone and create new contacts in the address book. All the new contacts you create using the Contacts application on your Apple mobile device will be automatically saved in the Gmail address book and you can view them through the Google Contacts section I mentioned earlier, which you can access more quickly. by clicking on this link.

Obviously, I remind you that to view the contacts saved in the Gmail address book you will need to log in through the Google Contacts website using the account you have synchronized on your iOS mobile device.

Save the address book to Gmail from a PC email client

Do you use an e-mail client, such as  Outlook or  Mozilla Thunderbird, on your computer and would you like to synchronize the address book of the latter with Gmail? Nothing impossible, indeed, it is child’s play: follow the instructions below and you will realize it.

• Microsoft Outlook– if you use Microsoft Outlook, you can synchronize the Gmail address book with your client using a free application called  GO Contact Sync Mod: I told you about it in more detail in my guide on how to synchronize Gmail contacts.
• Mozilla Thunderbird– Thunderbird also needs to use an external solution to allow synchronization of contacts with Gmail. I am referring to the contact sync extension, which I told you about in my tutorial on how to sync Gmail contacts. If, on the other hand, you want to learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird, I invite you to read my tutorial dedicated to the program.
• Windows 10 Mail– if you use Windows 10, you can activate the synchronization of contacts between Google and the system address book by starting the Contacts app  (you can find it with a simple search in the Start menu  ) and clicking first on  Start and then on  Import contacts. In the window that opens, select the Google logo, log into your account and choose the option for synchronizing contacts. Easier than that ?!
• Apple Mail– if you have a Mac and want to synchronize the Gmail address book with Apple Mail, go to System Preferences  (the gear icon located on the Dock bar), select the Internet Account item from the window that opens and click on the Google logo to associate your Gmail account with your Mac. Once logged in, activate the checkbox for contact synchronization.