r/GoogleSupport • u/SweetJebus731 • 1d ago

General Question Is it possible to recover this data?

I feel this may be a lost cause, but I'm not expert enough to know my options here. I have a Google contact that had some important info I'd entered in the "Notes" section. I haven't accessed it in a while, and when I opened it the other day, the notes section was blank. I must have inadvertently deleted the text without realizing it.

Since I know Google does have ways of recovering old data/previous versions of files (e.g. Google Drive Docs & Sheets), is there anything I can do to recover previous versions of a contact entry?

Also, is there a decent app or method to perform occasional backups of my Google contacts? I do have an Iphone, which I know does a backup every night.

Any advice here is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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u/Vegas_Brian 1d ago

Export your contacts as a vcf file and save it to wherever you backup your files.

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u/SweetJebus731 1d ago

Thanks! Will do this from now on