Samsung How to Manage Contacts

On the Samsung device, contacts can be moved to a different location such as the SIM, phone or logged in accounts, and unlike the normal Android, Samsung's One UI provides a convenient way to move contacts easily.

We can easily share an existing contact with friends, acquaintances or relatives, either as a file (VCF) or as a text file.

The contact can share on the Samsung device via any of the supporting apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook or other messaging apps.

The Samsung device offers another sharing function via a QR code, which scans the code and transfers all contact information to the other device.

On the Samsung device, deleted contacts are placed in the Trash by default. After 15 days, they are automatically deleted. Within these 15 days, we can restore deleted contacts.

Saved contacts can be exported as a vCard file to the internal memory, memory card or SIM card. The .vcf file can then be copied and imported to other devices. The file can also be sent by email, WhatsApp or other services.

On the Samsung device, you can import contacts from a vCard (.vcf) file or from the SIM card, and apart from the SIM card, the contacts you want to import can be either on the internal memory or on the memory card.

Contacts can be imported into your Samsung account, Google account or phone memory.

With a large number of contacts, it is quite possible that duplicate contacts are created on the Samsung device by mistake. Even with multiple imports or different locations, contacts can be displayed twice. With One UI, Samsung offers the "Merge Contacts" function. Here, contacts with the same name, phone number or e-mail address are listed. Using these criteria, the contacts can be merged.

If several contacts are shared at once, by default the Samsung device will merge them into a single file, but since problems can occasionally occur with such merged files, we can also instruct the Samsung device to send the contacts individually.

To enable us to restore deleted contacts, there is a recycle bin for deleted contacts on the Samsung device. After 15 days, the contacts contained in the recycle bin are permanently removed from the Samsung device. If you do not want the recycle bin, you can deactivate it in the settings.

Note: Deactivating the recycle bin will irrevocably delete all contacts in it.