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How to Find Contacts in Gmail?

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We can easily view the contacts from both web and mobile app.

What are contacts in Gmail?

The contacts folder contains a list of contacts. These contacts are similar to contacts on our mobile phone. It is also defined as the Gmail address book that contains a list of contacts, which are often called as Google Contacts.

As soon we open the contacts icon, a new window consisting of a list of contacts appears. Our mobile device contacts will also be added to the contacts list if we have registered with the same email-id on our mobile.

The steps are listed below:

1. Open the Gmail account and login using the Gmail ID and password.
   We can directly use the URL: https://mail.google.com/.
2. On the Home page of your account, click on the Google apps icon (icon with 9 dots arranged in a square) present on the top-right corner of the display.
   It is shown below:
   
3. A drop-box will appear, which contains the list of all Google apps, as shown below:
   
4. Click on the ‘Contacts’ icon, as shown above.
5. A new window will appear that contains the list of all contacts, as shown in below image:
   

Note: Here, we have used the same email-id to login on our mobile and computer. Therefore, the list is also showing mobile contacts. If we use a different email-id, we will only get contacts saved from our computer.

• Here, we can easily find our contacts.
  To create a new contact,
• Click on the ‘Create Contact’ button present on the top-left corner of the display, as shown below:
  
• A small drop-box will appear, as shown below:
  
  We can select either ‘Create a contact‘ option to create a single contact or ‘Create multiple Contacts‘ to create more than one contact.
• Let’s select the ‘Single Contact’ A dialog box will appear, as shown below:
  
  We are required to specify the details.
  Click on the ‘Save’ option present on the bottom-right corner of the dialog box.
  When we click on the ‘Create multiple Contacts’ option, a dialog box will appear like the image shown below:
  
• After filling the required details, click on the ‘Create‘ option present on the bottom-right corner of the dialog box, as shown above.
• The contact will be saved to the list. We can easily find the contact from the list.

Steps to find contacts through the mobile app

The steps are listed below:

1. Open the Gmail app.
2. Click on the menu icon (appears like three horizontal lines), which is present on the top-left corner, as shown below:
   
3. Scroll down and click on the ‘Contacts‘ option, as shown below:
   
4. It will redirect us to the Google Play store to download the Contacts app developed by Google.
   We are not required to download if you have already installed the Contacts app.
5. The list of Contacts will appear, as shown below:
   
6. Here, we can easily find contacts.
   To create a new contact,
7. Click on the ‘+‘ icon present on the bottom-right corner of the display, as shown below:
   
8. A new window will appear, as shown below:
   
   We are required to fill the details to create a contact.
9. Click on the ‘Save’ option present on the top-right corner, as shown below:
   
10. The contact will be saved to the list.

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