Synchronize Yahoo contacts with mobile devices

Synchronize your Yahoo contacts with a mobile device so you can access your contacts wherever you go. When you sync, contacts are only added to your device’s address book. Existing contacts will not be charged from your phone or tablet to your Yahoo contacts.

Add contacts to a mobile device

1. iOS devices
2. Android devices

Synchronization is not updated

If your device has stopped updating your Yahoo contacts, you must remove and re-add the synchronization settings to solve this problem on your device.

Synchronize or desynchronize calendar and contacts on iOS

Syncing your Yahoo email and your personal information on your iOS device gives you quick access while traveling. The changes are automatically updated both on the device and in your Yahoo account.

Sync your Yahoo account with your iOS device

Synchronize native iOS applications on your mobile device with your personal Yahoo information. Synchronized information may take several minutes to appear.

1. Touch Settings on your device.
2. Press Accounts and Passwords.
3. Press Add account.
4. Tap Yahoo
5. Enter your email address and tap Next.
6. Enter your password and tap Sign in.
7. Slide the "Mail", "Contacts" and "Calendars" sliders.

Information not updated? - This generally means that your account is not syncing correctly. You can solve the most common synchronization problems by removing and re-adding your Yahoo email account.

Delete a synchronized Yahoo account from your iOS device

• Touch Settings on your device.
• Press Accounts and Passwords.
• Touch your Yahoo account.
• Touch Remove account.
• Touch Remove from my iPhone to confirm.

Synchronize or desynchronize Yahoo contacts on Android devices

Install the Yahoo Mail application and you can synchronize your Yahoo contacts in the address book of your Android device, giving you access to your contact information in any application that uses the address book.

1. Add Yahoo Mail to your mobile device
2. Open the configuration application of your device.
3. Press Accounts.
4. Tap Yahoo
5. Touch your Yahoo email account.
6. Select Synchronize contacts to activate it or deselect it to deactivate it.