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Welcome. In front of me is a Realme 16
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and today I will show you how you can
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import contacts from your SIM card to
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So to get started, you will first want
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to open up your contacts application
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like this one right over here.
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Now I'm signed into a Google account
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which does change how this entire app
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kind of looks like. If you're not signed
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in, there's going to be a little bit of
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a difference. So I'm going to first
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select no thanks. Uh dismiss. So number
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one, we can see that I am signed in
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right here. And if I click on the
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contacts or all contacts, you can see
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that I have 88 contacts in total and 88
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of them are on a Google account along
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with three being on SIM card. Now the
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reason why we are not seeing uh 91 right
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here because we have 88 and three is
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because these three contacts already
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also exist on the Google account. So the
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application already kind of knows that
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these are the same contacts. So it just
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shows me a total of uh individual
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contacts instead of ones that are
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Anyway, uh so to import, we're going to
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go to organize and in here you have a
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Google account. I'll just scroll all the
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way to the bottom. If you don't have a
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Google account, this section right here,
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this device will actually be at the very
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top and there won't be anything else.
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And from here, select manage SIM. Now, I
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do want to just stop right here because
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I want to take time to absolutely
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dismantle and on this
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design. I hate it. It's absolute scammy
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piece of design. Uh that is, in my
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opinion, should be completely illegal.
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So, uh what we're seeing right here,
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let's be honest. First thing, it doesn't
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really seem all that bad. We have device
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and Google and then more options. Now,
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uh device and Google basically allows
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you to import to both locations which
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would include Google cloud and your own
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device. Fine. Now, if you're looking for
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just a device, that option is hidden
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under more. Now, if you have multiple
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accounts, there's enough space right
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here to fit other accounts listed as
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well. There is no problem fitting those
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device and Google account one, device
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and Google account two, and so on.
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Right? But the device only is hidden
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always unless you don't have anything
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else other than this option. Now, this
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is just Google trying to circumvent
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asking for consent and all that
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and trying to trick you into selecting
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this option because it includes them.
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And uh let's be honest, they're in the
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business of selling data. Um, and in
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this case, they're I would say argue
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they're doing that completely legally
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because the data that they're trying to
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gather here doesn't belong to you, which
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means that they're stealing it from
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whoever else, whoever's contacts these
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are. Um, and that's basically what
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they're trying to do. They're just
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giving you two options to get you kind
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of confused right here. You're looking
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for device. Well, there it is. Right?
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You're looking for Google. There it is,
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too. You're only looking for device. You
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kind of might be looking like, I don't
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see anything else. I see the device and
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Google. So, I guess that's the only
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option. So that's what you're going to
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select most likely. It's basically a
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manipulative behavior right here. So
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make sure you select device only as this
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is the actual like good option. And
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let's be honest, if Google isn't paying
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you for data or or asking for consent to
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the people that this belongs to, there's
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no reason to give them anything.
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Everyone else pays them, so they might
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as well pay you too. It's after all our
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data that they're selling. Uh now from
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there you can deselect contacts that you
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don't want to import. And uh if you see
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some that are already deselected, that
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means that these contacts exist uh in
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the location that you're trying to
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import them to. If you're trying to
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import to both Google and uh and the
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device, these contacts would need to
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exist in both locations at the same time
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to be deselected. They only exist in
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one. They will look like they do right
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here. Now, from there, um you can click
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on import, and you will usually get
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another BS popup uh to basically delete
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uh imported contacts from your SIM card.
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So uh what you're going to get is
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basically a popup exactly stating maybe
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not exactly but roughly stating that uh
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uh clear imported contacts uh to clear
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storage imported or contacts that
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haven't been imported won't be affected.
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Now this is another manipulative
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behavior from Google again trying to
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seize control over data. Uh so by trying
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to delete your copies of your contacts
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that are being stored on the actual
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physical storage, meaning your SIM card,
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they're basically giving like, "Oh, you
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know what? You imported these contacts.
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Well, let me just get in here and delete
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them." So, so you can later on be more
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uh susceptible to us trying to bait you
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into uploading contacts to the cloud,
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which then gives us access to it without
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ever needing to ask for consent. Uh, I
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mean, let's be honest, Google is acting
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like a creepy ass uh uh
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pedo right there. So, it's just
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absolutely annoying me. And with their
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logic, you know what? If I say this, you
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have my consent. I'm because like
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they're getting consent from you to
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access other people's data. Then, you
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know, you have my consent to go into
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Google and take whatever you want. You
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know what? Computers, AI, data center, I
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don't care. Take whatever you want. I'm
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in no way associated with Google, but
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hey, you get my consent. It's basically
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the same thing. So, if it's okay for
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Google, it's okay for you, too.
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Obviously, all sarcastic jokes aside, uh
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obviously I have a problem with this.
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um so you want to obviously se to keep
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these contacts. They don't get in your
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way. They're on a SIM card as a safe
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backup. If something happens with the
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phone, you can just pop out a card, put
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it in another device, and you still have
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your contacts. uh unlike if you choose
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to delete them then they are not there
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anymore and you kind of shed out of
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luck. Now I do want to also just quickly
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point out when you import your contacts
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um so if we go to the device which are
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that's where I have the imported
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contacts right now and I click on one of
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these contacts and select edit
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oh boy wow that's uh so there we go. So
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you can see right here uh for these
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contacts which is basically I'm adding
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the ones that are on the phone but the
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ones that will be on the cloud have the
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same exact options. Actually saying this
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I'm just going to edit this one. There
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we go. You can see this one is on the
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cloud and it has the same options. And
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you can see we have things like our uh
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contact and cover photos. We have the uh
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first last name. We have company. We
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have multiple numbers that we can add
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for that contact. We have notes, email
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addresses, birthday, address where that
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person lives, labels, and then we have
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things like uh websites, related people,
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department, job titles, nicknames. Well,
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that's a lot of personal information
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that the person that this belongs to
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have never consented for Google to have.
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So, you you get what I'm saying now,
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Now, for people that are relying on
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their contacts just kind of being easily
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accessible on other devices without
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needing to refill all this crap, because
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if you check out the contact that is
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stored on a SIM card itself,
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so there we go. This one you can see
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that the SIM contacts only have the
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ability to have name and number and
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nothing else. So for people that want to
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have all that other information uh while
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also not uploading it to the cloud, what
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you could do is download from a play
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store an application, any kind of app
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that would allow you to create a backup
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of your contacts. It would create a VCF
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file. I believe that's the extension if
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I remember correctly. And that file can
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be zipped up, emailed to yourself or
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moved to an SD card and moved to another
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device or anything like that. Uh you can
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even send it to WhatsApp or stuff like
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that. And on the other device, you just
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click on it, import your entire list
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with everything that is along with those
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contacts like photos, multiple fields
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filled and all that stuff. And voila,
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you have all the contacts along with all
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this information on other devices easily
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accessible without ever needing to even
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touch the cloud. So that's probably
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going to be the best, safest kind of way
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uh that doesn't, you know,
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give Google all the data that they even
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shouldn't have. Anyway, uh with that
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being said, I hope you found this video
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helpful. And if you did, don't forget to
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