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Contacts Sync
In using my Android media tablet more and more lately, I realized that something I should have fixed years ago was annoying me too much: my contacts were not in sync between my Apple devices and the tablet, which is signed into my Google account. This has been an issue for over a decade across all my devices, but since I never used Android in earnest, I largely ignored the problem. With the Lenovo y700 now a permanent part my setup, I decided it was time to dig into my address book and fix the discrepancies between my primary set of contacts (synced with iCloud since the service’s debut in 2011) and…whatever contacts Google had accumulated over the years from my Gmail account. Fortunately, the solution to this was very simple and involved a single iOS app that has been around for a long time: Contacts Sync.
As the name suggests, this utility can sync your iPhone’s contacts with Google Contacts. The way it works is pretty simple: after granting the app access to your iPhone’s contacts (it recommends using only one “source” device at a time) and logging in with your Google account to give it access to Google Contacts, you can choose to enable different types of sync, including automatic, two-way sync between iOS and Google Contacts.