Many users all over the world use Gmail email and mobile android mobile devices. Both the first and second, belongs to Google and is part of a single ecosystem associated with a single account. One of the most important elements of the latter is the contacts, and today we will tell about how you can see them.
View contacts in Google Account
The absolute majority of Google services are cross-platform, that is, available for use on various operating systems - both desktop and mobile. Among those and "contacts", open which you can both through the browser on your computer and on your mobile device. Consider both options.Option 1: Browser on PC
As we have already told above, "Contacts" is one of the many Google services, and on the computer, you can open it for viewing just as simple as any website.
Note: Before proceeding to the execution of the following instructions, log in to your Google account. Make it will help the next article.
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- Go to Google's start page in your browser or open any other web service of this company, except YouTube (for example, search). Click on the Google Application button, located on the left of the photo of your profile and made in the form of a square of ninepots.
Find the "Contacts" in the list that opens and click on this icon with the left mouse button (LKM) to go to the page you are interested in. You can get on it for a direct link below.
Go to the Google Contacts page
- Actually the first thing you will see in front of yourself is and there will be a list of contacts saved in your Google Account. In the first tab of the side menu, only those records that are saved in your phone address book are displayed.
Information about them is divided into several categories: name, email, telephone number, position and company, groups. It is not necessary that they are all filled, and the order of these columns can be changed through the menu caused by click on three vertical points to the right.
Each contact can be added to favorites (asterisk), change (pencil); Print, export, hide or delete (menu in the form of three points). To highlight multiple records, you need to install a checkbox in a checkbox that appears on the right of the user's behalf (after the cursor pointer is guided).
- The next side of the side menu is "with whom you often communicate," and its name speaks for itself. This section presents not only contacts from the address book of the phone, but those with which you copied by email Gmail.
- In the "Similar contacts" tab, repeating entries will be shown, if any, of course, will be available.
- In the "Group" section, you can "create a group" with contacts, for which it is enough to click on the item of the same name, give it a name, "save", and then add users.
- If you deploy the drop-down list "More", you will see several additional sections. The first one is "other contacts".
It will introduce a list of users (and companies) with which you communicated by e-mail (including those who wrote to you, but did not receive an answer), as well as those with whom you worked on documents from the Virtual Google office package .
Information about them will be divided into columns in the same way as the address book records from the first tab. Working with them and editing is carried out on the same algorithm - bring the cursor pointer to the necessary contact, select the desired action and execute it. The only difference is that these records cannot be changed, but they can be saved to the main section "Contacts", which implies including the ability to edit basic information.
- To add a "new contact", click on the corresponding button above the list of tabs, specify the necessary information in the window that appears, after which "save" them.
See also: How to save contacts in Google
- To search for the necessary records, use a string located above their list, and enter your request in it (name or mail of the desired contact).
- If you get the side menu "More", you will see several additional options, some of which coincide with the actions available in the hotel contact menu. Here you can import and export all the records at once (in / from another service or / from the file), print them, as well as cancel the changes made.
In this way, it is viewed and further work with contacts in Google Account through a browser on a computer.
Option 2: Mobile application
Obviously, you can access Google contacts from mobile devices. On Android OS, which belongs to the developer's company, make it much easier, but also on iOS this procedure does not constitute special difficulties. All you need from you - to pre-log in in the account, information from which you want to view.
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A small problem is that you are not always, not on all devices (depends on the manufacturer) can only be seen by Google and Gmail contacts - the preset application may contain absolutely all the entries of the address book, and not always the switching of the switching accounts between accounts.
Note: The example below uses a smartphone on Android, but on the iPhone and iPad this procedure will be performed in the same way. There are small differences in the application interface "Contacts" and in their functionality, and basic we will show on separate images. Directly viewing to which this article is dedicated is available on devices with both OS.
- Find on the main screen or in the general menu of the contact application and run it.
- You will see a list of absolutely all contacts saved in your address book, and here can be shown as soon as entries from Google Account and from several different accounts (for example, a device manufacturer or some third-party mail service, messenger).
So, on the devices with the "clean" Android, you can switch between Google accounts and add new ones, for which it is enough to tap on the image of your profile to the right of the search string.
Some vendors accompany entries in the address book by images indicating the profile (account) in which they are saved. There are those who simply add convenient filters that simplify navigation between different services.
Also on Android is able to view contacts stored separately in various applications (for example, messengers).
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On devices with iOS (iPhone, iPad) Contacts from different services are divided into groups, but by default they are displayed together. If you go to their list and remove the checkbox with ICloud (and others, if any), leaving only Gmail, you can see a list of all contacts saved directly in Google account.
- To add a new entry to the address book, press the "+" button in the "Contacts" application, enter the necessary information, after which "save" them. It is also possible to select a Google account in which these data will be recorded.
See also: Preservation of contacts for Android
- To find the desired entry in the address book, you should use the top view of the search string in which you want to start entering the name, phone number, or user email.
If you need to see the contacts from another Google account, you will first need to enter it. This is done in the "Settings" of the mobile device (section "Accounts" on Android and "Passwords and Accounts" on iOS). An action algorithm is described in more detail in a separate article on our website.
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Despite the fact that on mobile devices, it is somewhat more difficult to access the contacts, saved directly in Google account, yet it is exactly to see them will not be a lot of work. However, it is impossible to deny the fact that the most convenient this feature is implemented on the devices with "clean" android, where the OS developer account is basic, and the information stored in it is displayed immediately.
By the way, in the browser on any smartphone or tablet, you can simply open the "Contacts" service page in the same way as we did in the previous part of the article.
Solving possible problems
Since Google services are most often used in the "Computer / Laptop Plus Plus / Tablet" bundle, it is especially important that all of them, including the contacts we consider today, worked correctly and provided instant access to all the information stored in them. Make it will help the synchronization function, the features of which we considered in detail previously.
Read more: Synchronization of contacts for Android
If for some reason, the exchange of data between different devices works incorrectly or is not carried out at all, to find the chain the problem and solve it will help the next article.
Read more: Troubleshooting problems with Google contact synchronization
Sooner or later, any smartphone, even once flagship, becomes obsolete and needs to be replaced by a more relevant one. The information accumulated on the old device during its use is required to be transferred to a new one, and it is especially important in the case of the address book. To transfer all the records will help the first of the article below below, and the second will come to the aid in the case when the mobile device display is damaged and does not respond to pressing.
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How to extract contacts from a broken Android device
Conclusion
We will finish this, because now you know exactly how to see all the contacts stored in Google account, regardless of the device that is used to gain access to it.