Share Contacts Across Google Accounts

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Reader Walt Bischoff and his spouse—like all good couples—would like to share more of their lives with one another. He writes:

My wife and I have separate Apple IDs and would like to share contacts via iCloud. How should we set up iCloud to achieve this? Right now we never seem to be able to access all of our contacts.

I can offer a couple of solutions. We’ll start with iCloud.

iCloud doesn’t allow you to share contacts between accounts. You can’t, for example, create a group of contacts within your iCloud account and then tick off a little box marked “Make these contacts available to my spouse as well.” What you have to do is create an additional iCloud account that you share.

Shared Contacts for Gmail enables Google Workspace (G-Suite) & Gmail users to create, manage, share team address books from anywhere (Gmail, Google Contacts, Mobile phones) - Define access permissions like you would do with a Google Doc - Access contacts shared with you from anywhere in your workspace (Gmail, Google Contacts, Calendar, Mobile phones) - When you compose or receive an. With Shared Contacts for Gmail®, you can: → Share Gmail Contact groups with specific users or groups of users → Share Google Contacts between accounts or with family, friends, colleagues etc. → Modify or add shared contacts in the shared groups → Shared contacts appear in search and show-up in Gmail autocomplete → Unlimited sharing capacity → Synchronization with mobiles/tablets. Aug 30, 2015 Many users of Google Apps for Business are interested in sharing their contacts across the organization. Apptivo makes this possible with Google Contacts Sharing. With a simple set up, in Google Contacts, two new groups are created - Apptivo Employees and Apptivo Contacts.

Mar 26, 2019 It lets you access your email, calendar, and contacts for multiple Google accounts in a single desktop application—and search for files and emails across all of your accounts. Gmail Label and Email Sharing (free, Chrome): If you only need to share certain emails with your other Gmail accounts, use this cloudHQ extension to share labels with. How to Sync Contacts Between Two Gmail Accounts. Head to the Sources tab to add a new source. Under 'Add a Source,' pick 'Add Gmail.' Grant Soocial access to your Gmail contacts and choose 'Merge Gmail with Soocial' when prompted. When the wizard is complete, it'll take a few minutes to sync your.

To do that you go through the usual rigmarole to create an iCloud account. On an iOS device simply navigate to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; and tap Add Account. Tap iCloud and create a new Apple ID. Once you’ve obtained that ID, add it to every device you intend to use to share contacts.

On the Mac, go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars; click the Plus (+) button at the bottom of the window, click iCloud, and click Create Apple ID. (Or, if you’ve already established that new ID on another device, just enter the Apple ID email address and password and click Sign In.) Again, make sure that you’ve added this new iCloud account to all your devices.

In each case, enable contacts syncing for the new account. Now when you open the Contacts application on your Mac or the Contacts app on an iOS device, you’ll see your new iCloud account listed. Any contacts that you want to share should be added to this account. In cases where you don’t want to share particular contacts, simply leave them in (or add them to, when creating new contacts) the account tied to your personal iCloud account.

Gmail contacts is another option. And it works similarly. Create a Gmail account that the two of you will share. On your iOS devices go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; tap Add Account, tap Other, and tap Add CardDAV account. Configure the sheet that appears to read:

Server: google.com

User Name: The email address for your shared Gmail account

Password: That account’s password

Description: Something along the lines of Shared Google Contacts

You’ll then want to import your shared contacts into this Google account, which you can do on your Mac by launching Contacts, selecting the contacts you want to add to Google, and dragging them to the Gmail account you’ve created. Do the same with your wife’s contacts. If you like, just click on the Plus button next to the Google entry in the All Contacts area to create a new group, which you can use to help manage your shared contacts—Our Friends and Our Relatives, for instance. Your contacts will be uploaded to Google and synced with other devices that you’ve configured to use this account.

Note that when using this method, any new contacts that you create on an iOS device will, by default, be added to your iCloud account, not Gmail. But you can rectify that. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; swipe down to the Contacts area, tap on Default Account, and in the resulting screen, tap on your Gmail account. Until you change this option back to iCloud, any new contacts you create will be added to your Gmail contacts.

There are many ways to share your Gmail Contacts with other people. Some are easier than others. We aim to guide you on the best and simplest way.

The best way: Share Google Contacts Labels

The best practice is to organize your contacts into labels in Google Contacts Manager and share them using the Shared Contacts for Gmail Plug-In.

Step 1: Create your contact labels

A label is an easy way to group contacts together. These groups are like personalised ‘mailing lists’. For example, you could have a ‘Staff Group’ with all staff included. Then a “Vendors” group to list your vendors emails, phone numbers and useful information. Then a “Clients” group etc.. The number of label is unlimited.
In order to share contacts, you need to have at least one label. Once you have this you’ll be able to use Google Contacts Manager to its full potential.

Step 2 : Share your Google Contacts

Now you can share these labels with you coworkers as follows:

  1. Make sure you have installed Shared Contacts for Gmail
  2. Click on the Share icon to open the sharing popup
  3. Select users or users groups you want to share this contact group with
  4. Click on “Share”
  5. Define the access permissions for each user/group (Read Only, Can Write, Can Share)
  6. That’s it! All the users will know see and these contacts in their Gmail address book
  7. If they have edit permissions, they will also be able to edit these contacts or add new ones

Pros: Seamless. Efficient. The only viable solution to share and collaborate on Google contacts.

Cons: It requires to install an additional plugin.

The tedious way: import/export csv files

Create Excel files with the contact information you want to be included. You can then export this as a CSV file and send this CSV file with your colleagues who can then upload the CSV file into their own personal Google Contacts manager.

Pros: It is entirely free!

Cons: This is labour intensive and contacts never get updated in real-time.

The business way: Use a CRM

There are many of these on the market. Salesforce and Hubspot are the most popular. There is also Zoho CRM software. All of these are good if you’ve got a large sales/marketing team working in collaboration with each other.

Pros: CRMs allow to log every customer interaction and create automation.

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Cons: CRM software are often designed for organizations of a certain size. This comes with an equally large price tag!

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The limited way: Contacts Delegation

The Google Contacts Delegation Feature allows you to let another Google user to access your contacts. The delegated user will have full editing and deleting permissions on your contacts.

How does it work?

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  1. Open Google Contacts
  2. Click on “Delegate Access”
  3. Select the account to whom you wish to give access
  4. This person will then access to all your contacts
  5. Note: the delegated user will not have access your labels (contact groups)

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Pros: No third-party to install.

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Cons: Only available for G Suite paying versions. No access restriction: You are giving access to all your contacts. Impossible to share with users from other domains. Impossible to share with groups of users. Impossible to use the delegated contacts in Gmail or to find them in you mobile or in Gmail and Google Contacts search bar.