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Android: Create Contact Groups (Labels)

Android: Create Contact Groups (Labels)

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It seems there are quite a few people wondering how to create groups (or labels as Google calls them) for contacts on their Android devices. Here are two options for creating groups/labels for your contacts.

Option 1 – From Contacts App

Note: Not all versions of the Contacts app will have this selection.

  1. Open the “Contacts” app on your Android device.
  2. Select the “Menu” icon located at the upper-right corner of the screen.
  3. Choose “Create Label“.
  4. Type the “Label name“, then tap “OK“.
  5. Tap the add person icon located at the upper-right corner of the screen.
  6. Select a contact to add it to the group/label.
  7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for any additional contacts you wish to add to this group.

Option 2 – From Individual Contact Edit

  1. Open the “Contacts” app on your Android device.
  2. Select a contact you wish to add to the group you are creating.
  3. Select “Details” > “Edit“.
  4. Tap “Groups“.
  5. Tap “Create group“.
  6. Type the new group name, then select “Create“.

Note: These steps were performed on a Galaxy Note8 and may vary between device versions.

Option 3 – From a Web Browser

  1. Login to your Google Contacts using a web browser.
  2. Select “Create label” on the left pane. If you already have the group/label created, skip to the next step.
  3. From your list of contacts, check the contacts you wish to add to the group/label.
  4. Select the label icon located at the upper-right corner of the screen.
  5. Select the label you wish to use on those contacts.

FAQ

How do I send an email or text message to these groups/labels?

  1. From the “Contacts” app, select a group/label.
  2. Select the “Menu”  icon at the upper-right corner.
  3. Choose “Send message” or “Send email” as desired.

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Comments

  1. This tutorial is for the official Google Contacts app from the play store not the built in one on your phone.

  2. This feature, sending a group text to all those Google contacts with the same label, seems to have disappeared. I used this method as recently as September 2018 but a subsequent Android upgrade must have removed the feature. This sucks.

  3. what good is creating a label for a group if there is no way to use it to send a text?

  4. It does not seem possible to use the label name in the to field of Gmail on Android, since one must always begin in the contacts. That makes it impossible to use the label to forward or reply to an email. Pretty lame.

  6. I want my phone to only show ONLY one of the labels created, not ALL labels.

    e.g. I have a label for a group of people who I phone a lot (a “phonebook”). I would like to see ONLY these people on my phone contacts page. NOT all Google contacts and labels..

  7. I have a Galaxy 7 and the Menu option does not exist in top right-hand corner of my contacts, in the list o the individual contacts.

  8. I already create a Label group but i cant forward email to the group except if i do it individually. The ‘To’ function will only leads to a single contact.

  9. I’m wish to create a group of my individual contacts in my android phone but your two methods don’t work. If I don’t have a ‘choose label’ in my menu related to any of my contacts and there is no ‘create group’ if an individual’s contact details. Please advise.

  10. Thank you for answering a great question. Is it possible to first create a comma delimited file of tel numbers and load it instead of manually entering each number of selecting numbers from my contact list.

  11. Is there a quick way to make an all group with 1400 contacts in it in a few minutes. Android or Gmail.

  12. Option 1: When I go to “contacts” and then the menu, there is no “create label” as an option.

    Option 2: Worked…..but I can’t find or pull up the group as a text addie.

  13. Can my group be contacted using bcc? Sending everyone’s email to others is an etiquette no-no.

  14. Which android contact apps have this option? I had it, then did an “update” and it was gone.

  15. I’ve labeled each contact with a “Group” (Restaurants, Family, etc.). I open the contact info and it shows the group. Now try to search for a group to find an associated contact. Oh wait, there is no search function for groups in my version of Contacts (v.3.8.02.14). My old S5 used v.3.3.51. That app worked perfectly, Can I still download and install v.3.3.51?

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