How to Manage Android Phone Contacts on PC/Mac

Sophie Green
2023-10-25
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Summary: Looking for the effective way to mange Android contacts on computer? Here you will learn how to easily view, add, edit, modify, delete, import and export Android contact on PC or Mac with specific steps. Please read on to learn more information.

In this technological and communication age, mobile phone and computer play vital role in our everyday life and work. It is quite normal to share files between mobile phone and computer, and both of them have superiority in some aspects that can't be substituted by each other. For example, computer has a larger screen than cell phone, while mobile phone is much easier to carry, so that you are able to note down important info on your Android phone whenever you want.

However, if you have a long contacts list, it will be a inconvenient to edit them directly, because you are likely to make wrong operations on your phone which may lead to the data loss or errors. In this case, it will be much better if we are able to manage Android contacts on computer.

Android Contacts Manager - The Best Tool You'll Need

It is not difficult to achieve the goal when you turn to an assistant program. Now I'd like to introduce you this Android contacts manager - Samsung Messages Backup, which allows you not only to view Android contacts on PC/Mac but also manage them at will.

As you know that when you add a new contact to your Android mobile phone, you will be asked to save them on the internal memory or SIM card, while no matter which location you choose to store your contacts, you have no access to them on computer without an assistant. Now with this Android Contacts Manager, it can remove the limitation and enables you to completely manage Android contacts on computer. By running it, you can freely preview, add, delete, edit, modify, export (backup) and import (restore) contacts on PC/Mac as you like.

Click here to get the free trial version. As you can see that there are two versions available for you, you can select Windows or Mac version according to your computer system. Pay attention not to download the wrong one, otherwise this program will not be worked well on computer.

Part 1. Get Prepared to Manage Android Contacts on Computer/PC

Step 1. Download, Install and Open the Program on PC

As this program has two versions, you should download the right one on your Windows or Mac computer. Then install and open it according to instruction. This guide will take the Windows version as an example, if you use a Mac computer, you can follow the similar way to operate it.

Step 2. Connect Android Phone to Computer and Get It Detected

In this step, you should connect your Android mobile phone to PC via USB. Wait for a while, if this Android Contacts Manager fails to detect your device, you should enable USB debugging on your phone as following.

connect android phone to computer

After that, this program will automatically install USB driver on your computer. A few minutes later, it will start to scan your Android phone files, please wait patiently. Then you will get a main menu as shown. All files are listed on the panel, including Apps, Music, Photos, Videos, Contacts, call logs, SMS, books and so on.

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Part 2. Start to View, Manage Android Contacts on Computer/PC (10 Ways)

After having your Android recognized by the Android Contacts Manager, please click "Contacts" > "All Contacts" options on the left panel, you can start to manage Android contacts on computer as you like. In addition, there are a few options available for you to manage Android contacts on computer. You can press "New", "Delete", "Edit", "Import" or "Export" to add, delete, edit, modify, backup or restore contacts as you want.

(1) View Android contacts on computer

Once you enter "Contacts" > "All Contacts" section, you can see that the whole contacts are displayed with name, phone number and the other contact's information, such as contact group, address, Email, website, note, organization, etc.

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(2) Add new contacts to Android on computer

To create a new contact to your Android phone from computer, you can click "New" button, then enter the contact information Thus a new contact will be added to your Android phone successfully.

(3) Delete Android contacts on computer

It is very easy to delete Android contacts on computer and you can delete Android contacts or remove duplicated contacts in batches after previewing. Simply tick off the unwanted contacts, and click "Delete" button and confirm it. See more information >>

(4) Edit/modify Android contacts on computer

To edit or modify an existing Android contact on computer, simply check a contact that you want to edit and click "Edit" button to start editing contact information as you like, such as contact name, phone number, group, etc.. You can also click "Add Field" button to add more contact information See more details >>

manage android contacts on computer

(5) Export Android contacts to computer

You can selectively check one or more or all contacts from the contact list, and click "Export" button and choose the output format to store the exported contacts on computer. The frequently-used CSV, HTML, VCF, Outlook, BAK, XML formats are available. Check more information >>

manage android contacts on computer

(6) Import Android contacts from computer

If you have the contact file that you want to import into your Android phone, you can click "Import" button to bring out a browser and choose the contact file you want to import and confirm it to start the transfer process. Besides, to import contact files, the vCard file (*.vcf), Outlook file and backup file (*.bak, *.json, *.xml) are supported.

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(7) Back up all Android contacts to PC/Mac with 1 click

Go to "Super Toolkit" section and click "Backup" option. On the pop-up window, please choose your Android device, check "Contacts", click "Browse" button choose the location your want to store the backup file on computer, and click "Back Up" button to complete it. See more details >>

manage android contacts on computer

(8) Restore contact backup file to Android with 1 click

Go to "Super Toolkit" section and click "Restore" option. On the pop-up window, please choose your Android device and the backup file that contains the contacts you want, tick off "Contacts" and click "Restore" button to start restoring contact backup to your Android phone right away.

manage android contacts on computer

(9) Send SMS to your contact(s) on computer

Moreover, this Android Contacts Manager also enables you to directly send text messages to others by touching the "Send" button. Go to "SMS" section > click "New" button > choose one or multiple contacts you want

manage android contacts on computer

(10) Search the target contact on Android

What's more, if you have a lengthy contacts list, you can use the search box in the upper right hand corner to find the targeted contacts in a short time.

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Sophie Green, Chief Editor of Samsung-messages-backup website, has been focusing on the realm of Android Recovery, Android Transfer (Backup), Android Device Tips, Phone Clean, and Phone Transfer technologies. Recognized contributions on leading platforms attest to her esteemed expertise and reliability.