I know we have all run into issues where our contacts were deleted on accident or maybe on purpose by someone else. It is frustrating and sometimes can be destructive to our lives. Thanks to Google, we now have up to 30 days to be able to retrieve deleted contacts. This just might save our lives or jobs.
We’ve added a new feature to Google Contacts that allows you to revert your contact list and undo any mistakes made up to 30 days in the past. Let’s say you accidentally deleted a bunch of contacts or wiped the contact data from your Gmail account by mistake while syncing to another device. Visit Gmail’s contacts section, select “Restore contacts†in the “More actions†menu, and choose the time you would like to revert to.
This process is simple and pain free. One small note, if you have added a contact since the restore point you select, that contact will be deleted. My suggestion would be to restore to where you need to go to get that deleted contact, write it down, then restore again on “Custom” to get back to where you just were and add that contact back. Hope this will help a lot of people. Thanks, Google, for trying to make our lives a little less stressed.
Source: Gmailblog
