Google Contacts will soon win no account modesomething that remains exclusive to a handful of apps in the home today. If you like the Google Contacts app but don’t want to sync, there will be a way to do that.

The Google contacts app is designed to be used with a Google account and has the advantage of being able to recover deleted contacts or easily move them from one mobile phone to another. However, those who do not want to sync their contacts You will soon be able to use the account-free mode.

Google Contacts without Google

What do Google app and Google Contacts have in common? Both will have options Use without account in the account selection menu, it’s kind of like an incognito mode, but there’s no incognito mode. Come on, nothing is synced with Google servers.

Some Google applications must be synchronized with a Google account, while others must not; to this is added a third group: applications that you can use without an account. It seems the same but it is not: because this last option allows you specifically Do not use Google account in this app although it is configured on your mobile phone.

This is the same as disabling sync in settings and is exactly what you will be able to do in the future from the account selector in the Google Contacts app. When doing this, Synced contacts will be deleted from the mobile phone and syncing will be disabled.

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Google Contacts App can also save contacts to the devicethis is what is available when you use it without an account. It is foreseeable that in this process we will lose advanced communication functions that depend on synchronization with the servers.

We don’t yet know when account-free usage will come to Google Contacts, but it will be an interesting option for those who want it. Use this Google app but do not give your data to GoogleNow in this case it may be more profitable for you to use another contact/phone app, but that’s another story.

via | Android Authority

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