How to hide Google contacts without deleting them

Google Contacts displayed on a smartphone

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Knowing how to hide Google contacts could be the difference between having easy admission to the people you actually go far touch with regularly and having to hunt for them among a mass of unused entries.

Whether it'south the language-learning apps we hope ourselves nosotros'll use one day or those pet photos we never look at, our devices are brimming with things we know nosotros don't need but can't bring ourselves to get rid of.

The aforementioned can exist said of contacts. Who among us doesn't have a bunch of phone numbers or email addresses that we never utilise only simply don't want to office with?

Thankfully, Google Contacts makes it easy to hide these entries by storing them in a dissever binder. They'll no longer evidence upwardly on your primary contact list but will still be bachelor if you ever feel like digging them out once more.

And so read on and we'll bear witness you lot how to hide Google Contacts from your address volume without deleting them.

1. Head to Google Contacts on a desktop browser and sign in using your Google business relationship. You'll see a list of all your contacts.

Screenshot showing the Google Contacts homepage — (Image credit: Google)

2. To hide a single contact, first by clicking on the three dots to the right of the contact. Then, click "Hibernate from contacts." This will put it into the "Other contacts" folder.

Screenshot showing Google Contacts with a single contact highlighted — (Prototype credit: Google)

3. For multiple contacts, click the icon next to each contact and a checkbox will announced by each ane. Click the three dots at the elevation of the page, and so "Hide from contacts."

Screenshot showing Google Contacts with multiple contacts highlighted and "hide from contacts" option selected — (Image credit: Google)

iv. To restore a single subconscious contact back to your address volume, go to the "Other contacts" folder and click the "Add to contacts" icon.

Screenshot showing Google Contacts' "other contacts" folder with a single contact highlighted — (Image credit: Google)

five. To restore multiple hidden contacts, become to the "Other contacts" binder and click the icon next to each contact so a checkbox appears by each one. Click the "Add together to contacts" icon at the top of the page.

Screenshot showing Google Contacts' "other contacts" folder with multiple contacts selected — (Paradigm credit: Google)

Looking for more than phone tutorials? We likewise accept guides to how to hide apps on Android, how to delete multiple contacts on iPhone and how to import iPhone contacts into Gmail.

Dale Fox is How-to Editor at Tom's Guide, helping people become the most out of their technology. He's been a tech nerd always since babyhood, when he used the money from his outset job as a paperboy to purchase a subscription to GamesMaster magazine, and has a whole room at home dedicated every bit a shrine to the countless gadgets he'south purchased over the decades. Dale was previously a presenter, reporter and editor in China, where he also worked as a copywriter for OnePlus at its Shenzhen HQ.