How to export your contacts on your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

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How to export your contacts on your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

We will see at best in this tutorial how export your contacts to your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. Contacts are a very important feature of your Motorola Moto Z2 Play and so you may want to export them from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play to another phone or the Cloud. To make the best use of the features offered by contacts, it's very simple.

We will see how to export your contacts from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play to another smartphone first, from your Google account located in the 'Cloud' secondly, from files in vCard or VCF files third, and finally editable CSV files with a spreadsheet such as Google Sheet.

Export your contacts from another device to your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

To export contacts from another device, you must first export them to your SIM card or an SD card. To do this, you will need to insert a SIM or SD card into your new Motorola Moto Z2 Play. Once done, go to the category Contacts of your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. In this menu, you can then press the 'Settings' key, located at the bottom right of your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. An option 'Export' to the SIM card or the memory card will then be available to you. Tap on it depending on your backup mode.

Follow the on-screen instructions and your contacts will be exported to your backup media inserted in your Motorola Moto Z2 Play.

Export your contacts from Google Cloud to your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

This is a little known option but very interesting for those who know how to do it: export your contacts from the Cloud to your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. To do this, go to the 'Settings' menu, accessible from the home screen of your Motorola Moto Z2 Play, then in 'Account and Synchronization'. Once there, click on your Google account.

This will open a new window which will allow you to check the synchronization of contacts, emails and calendars.

Choose what you want to activate and it will automatically export your contacts to the Google Cloud.

Export your contacts to a VCF file on your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

Another option to export your contacts from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play is to use VCF files. This option will allow you, along with the CSV files, to share your contact lists from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play as well. As in the first paragraph of this article, go to the 'Import / Export' section of the 'Contacts' folder of your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. From there, click on 'Export' then choose the VCF format. Once you have validated the operation and having selected the source VCF file, you can export all your contacts from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play. Conversely, you can import contacts to make a new backup on your Motorola Moto Z2 Play.

Export your contacts to a CSV file from your Motorola Moto Z2 Play

If you want your files to be in CSV format, then to export them to your Motorola Moto Z2 Play, you will need to go through an export from your Gmail account. Once in your Gmail account, click on 'Contacts' above the compose email button. Then click on 'More actions' and finally on 'Export'. Choose the CSV file to which you want to export your contacts, and validate. Once finished, you can synchronize any Motorola Moto Z2 Play with your Gmail account as mentioned in the previous paragraph.

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