New mobile -contacts transferred automatically from old to new mobile

mro
mro Posts: 813 Forumite
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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
    Browntoa Posts: 49,298 Forumite
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    Android phone ?

    Done as soon as you sign into your account
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  • GunJack
    GunJack Posts: 11,673 Forumite
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    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...
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  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,473 Forumite
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    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
    mro Posts: 813 Forumite
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    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
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    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
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 11,857 Forumite
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    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.
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  • mro
    mro Posts: 813 Forumite
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    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
    mro Posts: 813 Forumite
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    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
    BigAl94 Posts: 1,919 Forumite
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    Yes, that's how it works. Brilliant isn't it?:j
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
    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.
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