Question I added a second Gmail to my Razr Plus 2024, and now my contacts and message PFPs are showing their info. Is there a way to reverse this?

[04ijordan]

Long story short, I added a family member’s Gmail account to my phone just to log into a few restaurant-themed apps. After that, I noticed that my Messages and Contacts got completely messed up — it pulled in all their contacts and messages, including ones from their old phone.

Now my contact names are changed, there are extra contacts I don’t know, and it’s just a huge mess. I tried turning off sync under Passwords, Passkeys, and the Account section in System Settings, but that didn’t help. My profile picture still shows in the top right corner of Messages and Contacts that's the only thing that remains, but it seems like the other account is still affecting things.

Is there a way to reverse this and get my phone back to normal?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Open the Contacts app, then look at the upper left, under the contacts search bar. Do you see a dropdown that says "All contacts"? If so, tap that, and then select only your account. Does that clear things up a bit?

 

[04ijordan]

Welcome to Android Central! Open the Contacts app, then look at the upper left, under the contacts search bar. Do you see a dropdown that says "All contacts"? If so, tap that, and then select only your account. Does that clear things up a bit?

Thank you, that fixed it for the phone app, the messages app is still acting off though, so maybe it takes a while to update the contact names and photos. I asked this question on Reddit but didn't get a response. I guess people thought it was a stupid question, but I just recently got this new phone after having an iPhone for the longest time, so I'm still learning how to work it, so thank you for your advice.

 

[B. Diddy]

If you want to use another family member's account for a specific app, then just log into the app using their account -- no need to add their Google account to the phone as a whole. Adding their Google account to your phone at the system level can lead to syncing a lot (if not all) of their Google account information to your phone (like contacts, Gmail, text messages, photos, etc.)

 

[spARTacus]

On Samsung, I'm not sure if one can add a gmail account for Samsung Email app, for example, without it also being added as a device google account. Rather annoying.