Importing only *selected* contacts android
April 3, 2022 7:52 AM Subscribe
I can't believe I'm using a question to ask this since I'm usually very tech self sufficient, but clearly I'm not doing Google right. I have had two phones and am trying to consolidate to a single phone. I want to import only a subset of contacts from the secondary phone, but every option I've seen wants to import everything from the vcf file. There are a ton of contacts and I don't want to clutter up the primary phone. How do I this without having to import all and then spend a ton of time cleaning up? Both are Android and I have the contacts in a vcf file.
Can you select the contacts you want in the contacts app on the old phone and share the resulting vcf file to your new one?
posted by Avelwood at 8:00 AM on April 3, 2022
posted by Avelwood at 8:00 AM on April 3, 2022
VCF is just a text file. Open it in notepad and purge the bits you don't want.
posted by kschang at 8:39 AM on April 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by kschang at 8:39 AM on April 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: These were all good answers and lightning fast, saving me a ton of time, thank you! I marked michaelh's the best because it was the cleanest and quickest route but all options would all work. Thanks!
posted by Ensign at 9:23 AM on April 3, 2022
posted by Ensign at 9:23 AM on April 3, 2022
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Would it work to use a VCF editor to remove unwanted contacts prior to import? Here’s one I found: https://github.com/abdelkader/vCardEditor
posted by michaelh at 8:00 AM on April 3, 2022