Your phone’s contacts app can be easy to treat as a simple address book. But the default versions usually included in Apple’s iOS 15 and Google’s Android 12 can ...

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Chances are, the smartphone in your hand isn't your first. And chances are, it's carrying contacts from three, five, even 10 years ago that you've been faithfully migrating from phone to phone. My ...

You’d think keeping tabs on your contacts would be about the simplest and most straightforward task imaginable in our modern connected world — wouldn’t you? I sure would. But as I’ve learned over the ...

There aren’t many tasks the latest Android phones can’t assist with, which makes it all the stranger when you discover some fundamental functionality missing. This happened to me recently, when I ...

The latest update to Google Play Services is changing how contacts sync on Android. Turning off Contacts sync will remove previously synced contacts from your Android phone. We take contact sync on ...

Old-fashioned address books and rolodexes are becoming an increasingly rare sight as the world goes digital. What’s more, digital address books are not something you need to buy separately. If you ...

Meta’s messaging platform WhatsApp has made a change to the way new contacts are added, finally dealing with an issue that has long frustrated and puzzled its users. Until now, anybody wanting to add ...

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