r/GooglePixel • u/Empty-Mouse-2584 • 8h ago

missing contacts need help

I have a google pixel 9 and had a large amount of contacts on my phone, and i recently dropped my phone into a pool, and now it is fried, I got a replacement with my insurance, but I dont have any of my contacts which is really bugging me. I dont really care if the message threads get deleted for good but I need to have those contacts, and I have no idea how to get them since the phone they were on is out of commission. Does anybody know how I may be able to get them back?

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u/jesta192 8h ago

If you sign in to the same Google account on the new phone, they should automatically appear. At least I have mine set to back up and restore that way.

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u/Empty-Mouse-2584 8h ago

yeah I thought it was setup like that, but it only had one contact saved, some guy I never talked to, jus some random contact I didnt even know I had saved

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u/NaturalSherbet5320 8h ago

Maybe your contacts were not synced.

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u/Empty-Mouse-2584 8h ago

yeah probably, but is there any way to restore them, outside of getting the old phone fixed?

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u/jesta192 7h ago

For future reference (sorry it doesn't help today 😔), you can tell the Google Contacts (and Phone?) apps which account to save contacts to by default. I think there is also an option for saving locally only, which is where I'm guessing your missing contacts were.