On Saturday 07 March 2026 09:49:09 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Saturday 07 March 2026 15:37:30 William Morder wrote:
Myself,(...) I copy my contacts to a file, copy that to my laptop, desktop,
flash drive, etc. But this may not be much help.
Yes, that's the solution I try tp avoid :)
As for your phone, I suggest that you check out F-droid and similar sites online. (If you search for F-droid, you will find the others, too.)
I'm test-driving a solution based on Fruux (contacts on Fruux, apps syncing with it. Unfortunately it's dificult at the time to keep completely out of Google.
The one I use on my phone is called Simple-Contacts; no real problems so far, just the usual learning curve for stuff that works, that does what you want.
More of their apps. (I use maybe half a dozen of these.) https://www.simplemobiletools.com https://simplemobiletools.com/simplecontacts/
Here is the developers' page (I believe); https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts/releases
And this is a clone, I think, of their original F-droid page: https://webdev4.gitlab.io/fdroid-website/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.c...
I don't know if they have taken the app out of F-droid. I just did a quick search and couldn't find it. In any case, their apps have been generally the least trouble, and are simple, as they claim in their name, and just work.
Bill