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Outlook contact to Android contact list
The option I gave you does exactly that; Sync Outlook contacts to the Android Contacts app. Just click on the question mark in front of the option to see the description of this toggle.
Outlook sync to Android contact list definitely works, and you can use eg. Samsung Contacts or Google Contacts apps to add contacts to the Android address book and have them sync back to the contacts list your're using in Outlook. The sync itself does work both directions, but it's a bit spotty sometimes - I've experienced it not deleting old info from Android-side contacts entries, ending in contacts with multiple duplicate phone numbers or old notes that have been deleted serverside.
Using the "Reset account" button has fixed all those issues thus far.
Hi Anssi. Thanks for this.
I've got a OnePlus 5 myself and I'm pretty certain now after some days of testing that it does not sync back to Outlook even after having specified in the Contact app that it is the Office 365 account that the new contact should be saved to (or the updated contact for that matter).
But, it does work to add and update a contact in the Contact app via the Outlook app. Opening the search (at the bottom) one gets a list of one's O365 contacts + the option to create a new contact. So for now, I've decided that this is the best practice management of O365 contacts on an Android.
- It definitely syncs back to Outlook contacts, I've created contacts on my phone and have them end up in the Outlook.com Contacts list, it just needs the reset account thing to be done manually every sync to work properly, sadly.