How to export all contacts?

dudewithconcernsiguess

Hey everyone,

I want to export my contacts and save them on my PC as a backup. But unfortunately I couldn't find a way to do that. I am only able to export single contacts but not all of them.

Am I doing something wrong or is it just not possible?

mythodical

Using the GrapheneOS Contacts app should do the trick:

Open the Contacts app
Go to Settings > Export
Select Export to .vcf file
Browse to the desired destination
Press Save

A pop-up will say, Contacts will be exported shortly. Check your notifications for completion. You can verify the contents of the vcf file by opening it in a text editor.

dudewithconcernsiguess

mythodical Ahh, thank you. I made the mistake of trying to do it via the contacts tab in the phone app.

dellingbrooks

mythodical

I was able to export the file, but all my contact photos are gone. Is there a way to retain the contact photos?

tastazardo

I recently installed grapheneOS on pixel 7 pro.

There is no option to import or export vcf in Contacts app > Settings
It only has the following options

Display options
Sounds and vibrations
Quick responses
Calling accounts
Blocked numbers
Voicemail
Accessibility
About

Is it just me? or has this changed in the latest version of graphene OS?
If so, is there any other way to import/export contact list.

[deleted]

tastazardo I'm on 6a but my Contacts settings have import and export. No idea why yours don't.

Hat

You are in the Phone app settings. To find the Contact app, go to the home screen and drag to the top to see all apps.

tastazardo

@Hat

Hey, That helped.

It was silly of me. I was not aware that Contacts was a diff app from Phone App.
Thx for clarifying.

Sanctuary1417

How you export the photos we've added to the contacts? It seems the exported .vcf file doesn't include themm.

dellingbrooks

Sanctuary1417

Same problem here. I haven't found a way to retain my contact photos. Have you found a solution?

ev6x

dellingbrooks Don't know of an automatic way, but I keep my contact photos in a folder that I have synced (Syncthing) across my devices. Makes it easy to re-add them as needed.

mythodical

dellingbrooks Custom photos are typically embedded within the VCF file as Base64 encodes. They'll appear under each contact entry as PHOTO;ENCODING=BASE64;JPEG..., followed by several lines of gibberish which is actually the encoded binary of the contact photo.