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Android: Create Contact Groups (Labels)

Android: Create Contact Groups (Labels)

April 22, 2018 by Mitch Bartlett 25 Comments

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. Will says

    June 19, 2022 at 6:24 am

    Thank you.

    My use case is trying to keep track of my grand kids. I NEED to remember their birthdays, and I also need to track their addresses as the families move house. Ideally, there would be a way to group contacts into households with the same address. Failing that, a group label seems like the way to go.

    Appreciate that this is a little different from the standard case of grouping people for broadcasts. In some ways the opposite: I really don’t want to send the whole family a birthday greeting. Maybe copy them…

  2. Tony Lovell says

    June 30, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    It would be nice to see how to code this in an Android app (outside your scope, perhaps, but…)

  3. George says

    May 27, 2021 at 10:15 am

    Open the “Contacts” app on your Android device.
    Select the “Menu” icon located at the upper-right corner of the screen.

    On my Samsung S20+ there is no menu icon in that corner or anywhere else on that page.

  4. Queen Sumayiyah says

    April 22, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    Thanks so much for this help
    May Allah the almighty ease things for you

  5. Sanju says

    February 20, 2021 at 1:05 pm

    True. Any answer or way out to Kelly stewart may 2019 msg?

  6. Kathy says

    October 20, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    What was wrong with my previous comment that it didnt get posted?

  7. Kathy says

    October 20, 2020 at 12:15 pm

    The new android phone I got had a Contact app that did not have option of sending messages or email from the group tab. Only options on group tab were to share list of participants or delete. (Then what good is it to still see the groups?). So from Play Store I downloaded my previous google Contact app which had the options and disabled the Contact app that came with new phone.

  8. Jim says

    February 26, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Comments enlightened me. I now know that “Groups” are useless clutter; they can’t be used to send a text to any of my non-functional group. Pathetic.

  9. Donna H says

    January 11, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    Can I put my own phone number in a messenger group that I have created?

  10. Dee says

    September 18, 2019 at 9:03 am

    How do edit/change the name of a Group in your contacts?

  11. Johnny Delgado says

    June 4, 2019 at 3:17 am

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

  12. Kelly Stewart says

    May 23, 2019 at 11:49 am

    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.

  13. Yvonne Mooney says

    May 3, 2019 at 11:16 am

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

  14. Len Kowalik says

    April 30, 2019 at 6:55 pm

    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.

  15. Val says

    March 15, 2019 at 3:27 pm

    I have same question as Gramma Deb, didn’t see an answer to her question.

  16. john stolarczyk says

    October 1, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    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..

  17. Lasermoth says

    October 1, 2018 at 8:50 am

    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.

  18. Mohd Sufian says

    September 19, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    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.

  19. Mike Newman says

    July 1, 2018 at 5:25 am

    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.

  20. Syed Kamal says

    June 21, 2018 at 7:48 am

    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.

  21. John Phillips says

    May 31, 2018 at 4:18 pm

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

  22. Bhramari Dasi says

    May 8, 2018 at 9:15 am

    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.

  23. Gramma Deb says

    May 5, 2018 at 2:30 pm

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

  24. Roger Pearce says

    April 29, 2018 at 10:02 pm

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

  25. Daniel van Dyk says

    April 29, 2018 at 7:32 am

    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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