New mobile -contacts transferred automatically from old to new mobile

mro

Bought new mobile and used for few days.


Contact list from old mobile has appeared on my new mobile, how is that ?


Just wondering how, through what Application or Setting or Action, contact list has been transferred from old mobile to new mobile ?
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Browntoa

Android phone ?

Done as soon as you sign into your account

GunJack

Browntoa wrote: »

Android phone ?

Done as soon as you sign into your account

Only if you've told it to back up to your google account

Could have (and preferably should have) been saved on SIM card...

motorguy

GunJack wrote: »

Only if you've told it to back up to your google account

Could have (and preferably should have) been saved on SIM card...

The O/P has told us they did move automatically, so that would suggest they had been backed up.

mro

Browntoa wrote: »

Android phone ?

Done as soon as you sign into your account

Which account ?

Is that email account ?


This is a new phone with new sim card, new phone number.
Telephone contacts have transferred.

agrinnall

GunJack wrote: »

Only if you've told it to back up to your google account

Could have (and preferably should have) been saved on SIM card...

Does anybody do it this way any more? And why wouldn't you back up your Google account?

debitcardmayhem

agrinnall wrote: »

Does anybody do it this way any more? And why wouldn't you back up your Google account?

Why keep all your contacts in the cloud and out of your control. Mind you not letting google know your contacts on android is as possible as Neptune holding back the tide with a toasting fork.

mro

motorguy wrote: »

The O/P has told us they did move automatically, so that would suggest they had been backed up.

This is an Android phone.

I don't know anything about my data being backed-up in cloud, don't remember seeing that or agreeing to it.

I know some Apps want access to certain information & they have Sync setting, whatever that is. Thought that might be doing it.

mro

agrinnall wrote: »

Does anybody do it this way any more? And why wouldn't you back up your Google account?

I have accessed Gmail email account on new phone.


Has Google transferred (taken control of) my Phone contacts ?

BigAl94

Yes, that's how it works. Brilliant isn't it?:j

emptybox

mro wrote: »

I have accessed Gmail email account on new phone.


Has Google transferred (taken control of) my Phone contacts ?

It's when you sign into your Google account when setting up the phone.
Google own Android.