Google-contacts – My Contacts are being moved to Other Contacts and I’m losing synchronisation

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For some reason a subset of my Google Contacts are being moved from the My Contacts list to the Other Contacts list. Unfortunately this has the effect of removing them from my iPhone as I have them synced, and only the My Contacts list is synced. It has happened three or four times in the last few months. It affects about 50 of my 160 contacts.

It seems to happen after I make minor changes to contacts on my phone – last night I added a number to a single contact, and today I noticed that the contacts were missing.

Any ideas on what is causing this and how to fix it?

Best Answer

In GMail Contacts:

My Contact List Contains:

  1. The contacts that you have manually added to GMail using the GMail interface.

Other Contact List Contains:

  1. Email address that got automatically added because you have sent them email(s).

  2. Email address that were uploaded to your GMail account in the form of a .csv file.

  3. Email address that were uploaded to your GMail account because of using sync feature with your phone.

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