Updated By Soha On Aug 20, 2025, 10:56 pm
Some users accidentally del ete important contacts when cleaning their MOTOROLA G address book. What should you do? Don't worry, in addition to re-entering phone numbers one by one, you can easily retrieve your lost contacts with backup recovery, or by using a professional recovery tool if you don't have a backup. These different methods are suitable for different situations, and you can choose the appropriate recovery method according to the actual situation.
For users who have synced contacts to their Google account, the recovery process for del eted contacts in the MOTOROLA G address book is as simple as completing the following steps.
Step 1 Power on your MOTOROLA phone and choose Settings > Google Account Settings.
Step 2 Ensure that Synchronize Contacts is enabled and click Synchronize Now. Later contacts will be restored fr om your Google account to your phone.
Tip: Regularly syncing your MOTOROLA contacts to your Google account is the best way to avoid data loss, but you can also use your phone's built-in backup feature or export your contacts to an SD card or computer.
In general, del eted contacts usually remain in the phone's internal storage until overwritten by new data. Therefore, after discovering that the contact is lost, you should immediately stop using the MOTOROLA phone to avoid overwriting the old data with new data. In this case, you can use third-party software, such as Android Data Recovery, to recover del eted contacts. The software is able to scan deep storage of the phone and retrieve files that have not been overwritten, including contacts, text messages, pictures, videos and audio, even when there is no backup. To recover del eted MOTOROLA contacts using Android Data Recovery, follow the steps below.
Step 1 Install and run Android Data Recovery on your PC. Connect your MOTOROLA phone to your computer using a USB cable and make sure it has USB debug mode enabled.
Step 2 On the data recovery software page, sel ect Android Data Recovery, sel ect Contacts as the file type to be scanned, and click Next to scan the mobile phone memory for del eted contacts.
Step 3 Preview and restore contacts
After the scan is complete, preview and determine the contacts you want to recover, and then click "Recover" to save the recovered contacts to your computer or mobile phone.
Tip: In the scan results, you can filter out the lost contacts through the "Show only del eted items" function, quick and convenient.
In addition, contacts that you thought were del eted may not have been del eted, but hidden. In this case, you can follow these steps to unhide.
Step 1 On the MOTOROLA mobile phone, choose Contacts > Menu > Show Contacts.
Step 2 Ensure that All Contacts is enabled. Hidden contacts are displayed again.
These are the effective ways for you to recover your del eted MOTOROLA contacts. Whether it's through Google sync, using third-party data recovery tools, or unhiding contacts, it's easy to recover lost contacts fr om your MOTOROLA G address book. To get back to your important contacts, all of these methods are worth trying. In addition, in order to ensure data security in the information age, be sure to regularly back up your critical data, including contacts!