VIDEO: SOLVED: How To Avoid Losing Contacts When Changing Cell Phones

In this short video we explain that your Android cell may have contacts stored in several locations and if you change cell phones, you are likely to loose contacts unless you migrate them first.

1. Open CONTACTS
2. Click the SETTING icon (top left 3 bars)
3. Click MOVE CONTACTS
4. Select the FROM and click DONE
5. Select the TO
6. Move

Now when you install your apps on your new phone those contacts that were stored on your phone or on your SIM card will have been moved to something that syncs to the cloud.

We use a Samsung S9 with Android 10 to demonstrate: