It’s critical to manage your phone’s contacts if you want to remain in touch with everyone and continue communicating.
When you attempt to edit or delete read-only contacts from your phonebook, though, you may frequently run into issues.
Thankfully, you can change these read-only contacts in a few different methods, so you can keep your address book current and correct while also updating the contacts’ details.
How to Modify Android’s Read-Only Contacts
On your Android device, contacts that you can view but not edit or modify are known as read-only contacts. Usually, other sources like your Google account or other accounts connected to your smartphone are used to sync these contacts.
Their name, phone number, email address, and other information are visible to you, but you are unable to modify them directly from your device. But there are still methods for handling them.
Disconnect the Contact
A read-only contact must first be unlinked in order to be changed. The contact will remain in your contacts as long as it is linked. Take the actions listed below:
- Find the read-only contact you want to edit by opening the Contacts app.
- For additional options, tap the three dots icon.
- From the dropdown menu, choose View Linked Contacts, then press the Unlink option.
- Look for the same contact after de-linking it.
- To delete it, tap Delete. Then, save the contact as you normally would.
Use the Google Contact Application
Because it allows for contact merging, which might be useful, Google Contacts is the easiest to use. When it comes to read-only contacts, there are situations when you can combine them into a single entry and get rid of the need to keep track of connected or duplicate contacts on your phone.
- Install Google Contacts, then sign in using your Google login information.
- Locate the read-only contact that you want to remove within the app.
- Press and hold the hamburger (three lines) icon, then choose Delete from the drop-down menu.
- To confirm, tap Move to Bin in the pop-up window.
- Save that contact once more now.
Modify within the Source App
You can edit read-only contacts from within Facebook or WhatsApp because those contacts typically come from other networks. By doing this, you may easily update contact details without requiring that you unlink or remove contacts from the built-in contacts app on your device.
The instructions for editing read-only contacts in WhatsApp are as follows:
- Open a conversation window in WhatsApp with the contact you wish to edit.
- To view the contact’s profile, tap on their name at the top of the chat window.
- Next to their name, tap the pencil icon or the Edit button.
- Modify the contact’s details, including name, phone number, and profile photo.
- To save your edits, hit the checkmark icon or the Save button.
With our instructions, we hope you were able to manage your Android phone’s read-only contacts and make changes for more effective communication.