Smartly backing up and securing your contacts with Smart Phones

We all generally face problems when we lost the phone and we do not have the backup of the contacts. But with the wave of smart phones this problem is quite solved. The simple solution is that you need not to save any contacts in the phone or sim. You might be thinking that why so? This is because when ever you lost the phone the contacts are saved in either of the two memories i.e. phone or sim. But if you do not save anything to either of the memories then the threat of misuse of contacts is quite less. The simple way to back up and secure your data is keeping the contacts on the cloud. The best is to save the contacts to your Google account and sync your smart phone with your account and all the contacts will be visible from your Google account. The simple steps to backing up all the contacts to your Google account are as follows:

1. Firstly export all the current contacts in your smart phone to a single .vcf file. This is not difficult at all. All the smart phones have this facility to export all the contacts into a single file. Go to contacts in your smart phone, chose the option export all contacts to SD card. It will automatically create the single .vcf file containing all your contacts.

2. Go to your Gmail account from your smart phone or transfer the .vcf file to your computer and then login to your Gmail account. 

3. On the left corner where Gmail is written, click on the small arrow to see the contacts section. 

4. Click on the contacts to move to the contacts section and click on more button to expand the menu.

5. Click on import and give the path of the .vcf that you have exported. This will import all you contacts to your Gmail account. 

6. The next step is to sync your Gmail account to your phone and the contacts in your phone are ready form the Gmail. Whenever you add a new contact, add it to your gmail account when phone asks you where you want to save. 

Another benefit of this is that, you can sync your gmail account on your multiple devices and your contacts will be there at multiple devices without having the trouble to import and export your contacts. Whenever you lost the phone just change the password of your Gmail account, so that the contacts in your lost phone got unsync and your contacts remain safe and backed up.