How can I recover my contacts?

[AC Question]

How to recover contacts

I tried to delete an email account off of the gmail app and it deleted my contacts. How exactly did I manage to do this and how can I recover them?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: How to recover contacts

Welcome to Android Central! Contacts in the Contacts app sync with the particular Google accounts that the phone is logged into. If you remove a Google account from the phone, its contacts will disappear as well. Add that Google account back in Settings>Accounts​, and make sure it's set to sync Contacts, and they should return.

 

[Rukbat]

Re: How to recover contacts

If you actually deleted the contacts themselves, go to Google Contacts, click More, then Recover contacts. You can recover any contacts deleted within the last 30 days. (If it sends you to the old site, do the same thing on the old site - More/Recover contacts.)