View, group and share contacts

You can organise the people and businesses in Contacts using labels.

You can use the Contacts app to find someone’s contact info or organise contacts with labels such as 'friends' or 'family'.

Important: Some of these steps work only on Android 9 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.

Check your contacts

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
2. To check:
   • Contacts by label: At the top left, tap Menu Under 'Labels', Select a label.
   • Contacts for another account: At the top right, tap your profile picture Select an account.
   • The contacts for all your accounts: At the top left, tap Menu All accounts.

To check your Google Account contacts on the web, go to Google Contacts.

Contact someone

You can call, email or send text messages to your contacts. You can also learn how to make video calls to your contacts.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
2. Tap a Contact in the list.
3. Select an Option.

Create a group

You can group contacts together with labels.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu Create label.
3. Enter a label name and tap OK.
   • Add one contact to a label:
     1. Tap Add contact .
     2. Select a Contact.
   • Add multiple contacts to a label:
     1. Tap Add contact .
     2. Touch and hold a Contact.
     3. Tap more Contacts Add.

Tip: If a contact has multiple email addresses, only their default email address is added to the label group. 

Change a default email address

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the contact in the Contacts app .
2. Touch and hold an email address.
3. Tap Set default.

Remove contacts from a group

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu .
3. Select a Label.
4. Tap More Remove contacts.
5. Next to the contact that you want to delete, tap Remove .

Share your contacts

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app .
2. In the list, tap a Contact.
3. At the top right, tap More Share.
4. Choose how you want to share the contact.

Check your own contact info

1. At the top right, tap your Profile picture Contacts app settings.
2. Tap Your info.

Learn how to edit or delete contacts.