Relatively recently, Google has started showing us what has changed in the more mysterious Android updates that come through Google Play Services and Google Play system updates. Here’s what we learned significant change to reach synced contacts android.

When we completely disable the synchronization of contacts or our Google account already synced contacts will be deleted on your cell phone. It makes sense, but there will definitely be a reason for some intimidation in the future.

Changes in syncing contacts

Google has released the list of changes that will come with the update. 23.20 Google Play Serviceswhich should arrive on our mobiles one of those days as it has been released since last week. The changes include a new paradigm of how contact sync works on Android.

A big advantage of contact sync on Android is that we have all our contacts wherever we go by signing into our Google account. The problem is that it works very well and is easy our contacts stay on mobile phones that we no longer useanother person uses the cell phone and the new ones mingle with the old ones in a real mess.

The solution that Google found is at least controversial, as it has capacity. the potential to eventually “delete” mobile contacts From some users, the company describes the changes on its support page as follows:

[Teléfono] Turning off syncing with Google Contacts will now remove previously synced contacts from your Android phone.

That is, with active synchronization, contacts saved in the Google cloud will appear on the mobile, but when sync is disabled, contacts will be lost. Of course if there are synced contacts, those saved elsewhere (for example, in mobile storage, they will be preserved).

Until now, if you disable sync, you were seeing this message in the contacts app, but not many other reactions.

Until now, Contacts synced from Google kept on mobile even if we choose to turn off sync later. The only thing that happened was that it warned us at the top that we did not have active syncing, but the contacts remained on the mobile.

Deleting these contacts in the background while disabling sync logical. When we turn off photo sync, we cannot see photos saved in the Google Photos cloud, so it’s normal for the same to apply to contacts.

If you keep the sync active, nothing will change on your mobile with the next update of Google Play Services. However, your contacts will be lost until you sync, unless you save it locally on the mobile phone. The good news is that Google Contacts will be available on the web or as soon as you sync them again.

via | Android Center

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