iPhone to Pixel: missing contacts

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iPhone to Pixel: missing contacts

2 issues relating to missing contacts on my Pixel:

1. After switching from iPhone to Pixel in which I used the steps at https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7129740?hl=en, I saw that a few contacts appeared to be unaccounted for in the transfer.

2. I planned to compare exports of the iPhone and Pixel contacts to see which contacts were missing, but the vcf export of the Pixel contacts (exported via Contacts app > Settings > Export) are missing many contacts (hundreds).

Any advice?

iPhone 7

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 10:26 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 4, 2021 7:04 PM in response to Connor Hawke

If you have a gmail account on your iPhone any contacts assigned to gmail the gmail contacts group will also sync to gmail contacts on your Pixel. You would have had to make gmail the default for contacts, or use a 3rd party app like Groups to move contacts to gmail. But you can also add your iCloud account to your Pixel and the contacts will go along with it.

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Answer 2

Aug 4, 2021 1:01 PM in response to Connor Hawke

Contacts are associated with email accounts. If you have the same email accounts on the pixel that you have on the iPhone you should have the same contacts. If you have more than one email account on either platform the contacts may be split between them.

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Aug 4, 2021 6:55 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

iPhone contacts can be synced to iCloud (which they are) but as far as I'm aware there's no way to directly auto-sync iPhone contacts with Google (which I'm doing on my Pixel) even if the same email address is used for iCloud and Google (which it is).

Issue #2 in my original post actually seems false as I initially applied the wrong filtering. There were a few other weird discrepancies during the comparison attempts, but ultimately I did not find the reason for the single-digit difference in the contacts count between iPhone and Pixel or even solid evidence of missing contacts, so have decided at this stage it's not worth further time investment.

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iPhone to Pixel: missing contacts

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