- The Android Settings app is preparing to add a new “Contacts storage” page.
- This page lets you choose which online account you want your contacts to be saved to.
- Alternatively, you can disable contact syncing entirely and only save new contacts to your device.
If you don’t back up your Android phone, you’re at risk of losing a lot of valuable personal data. Your apps, files, photos, videos, and contact info could be gone in the blink of an eye. Android already makes it easy to back up a lot of this data, but it seems Google wants to make it even easier to back up your contacts in the next quarterly release of Android 15.
Android has long supported saving your contact data in a database stored locally on your phone or tablet. Access to this database is guarded by the aptly named READ_CONTACTS and WRITE_CONTACTS permissions, which are runtime permissions that you have to manually grant to apps. Many messaging apps request access to these permissions so they can find out whether any of your existing contacts have accounts on their platform, as well as associate new contacts with existing accounts on their platform.