How to Back Up and Restore Deleted Contacts (VCF Export and Import)
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Deeps Recovery keeps a backup of your contacts on your phone. When a contact disappears, you can bring it back from that backup.
Step 1: Make the first backup
- On the home screen tap Backup & restore contacts.
- Allow the contacts permission.
- Your contacts are backed up automatically each time you open this screen. You can also tap Back up now.
Only contacts that were in a backup can be restored. Open this screen once now, so your contacts are protected from today on.
Step 2: Restore deleted contacts
Deleted contacts lists contacts that were in your backup but are no longer on the device. Tap Restore next to a contact, or Restore all. If a contact should not come back, choose Remove from backup.
Move contacts to another phone with a VCF file
- Tap Export .vcf. The app shows where the file was saved.
- Send the file to the new phone, for example by e-mail or cloud storage.
- On the new phone tap Import .vcf and choose the file.
- The app shows how many contacts are in the file, how many are new and which ones are already on your phone or repeated in the file. Select the contacts you want and confirm Add to your phone?
"Import failed – invalid vCard" means the file is damaged or not a contacts file. Export it again from the original phone.
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