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Anonymous

Oct 15, 2018

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Outlook contact to Android contact list

It doesn't seem possible anymore to have the Outlook contacts (in Office 365) synced to the contact list in Android (as discussed here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Outlook/Outlook-for-Andr...

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RobertSparnaaij
Oct 15, 2018
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.

Anonymous

Oct 19, 2018

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.

Anssi Niemi

Brass Contributor

Oct 21, 2018

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.