Contacts keep moving to trash without me deleting them

[saboorfm]

Hi

My contacts gets deleted and appear in trash. When I went to trash I recover them but again and again it gets deleted some of them not all of them. 

I don't know why because I don't even deleting it myself it gets deleted it self auto. 

Could someone please help if anyone experience the same it is so frustrating. I have to keep saving contacts again and again and even most of my contacts got deleted and it didn't go to trash. 😔

Please help. 

Thanks 😊 

[Members_XmAU7IE]

It is 100% a Samsung problem, it kept happening with my fold 2, when I changed to another device it stoped. Now I've got a fold 5 and surprise surprise it's started again

[RedDogRabbit]

Funny, as it has never happened to me on any Samsung device since the Skyrocket. 

If you aren't syncing your Contacts with Google, sounds like you should. 

IF.. it was a Samsung problem, there'd be hundreds of posts about it here, never mind internationally, there'd be, tens of thousands of people posting about it. 

[Nooshin]

S22 ultra 

Same problem.

I understood that the "google play services" is doing something with my contacts.( while i single tapped on deleted contacts i saw the wrotten information about that)

So i went to setting>apps>google play services>permission> contacts>don't allow

And finally it worked!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Also i faced a message that some featured may be limited on google play services, i don't know which features, but nothing seriousely happened after banning gpservices of contacts.

Hope to be helpfull🌹🌹

[RedDogRabbit]

Here's a snapshot of what Play Services actually are for. They would be extremely unlikely to have anything to do with your Contacts. 

https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

[Ambereen]

I have been extremely frustrated these last few months due to this contacts-being-deleted issue.

Your post made sense, so I have followed your instructions. 

Let's see if it works. 

If it does, I will be eternally grateful. 😊😊

[WandaL]

Yes!  Thank you for the useful information.  I wish the sniping would just be deleted and answers to the question left in this search.

After choosing "don't allow" for Google Play Services (in permissions), I was able to go to the contacts being deleted and restore them.  They stayed restored whereas before they just kept getting put back in trash.  Your advice was clear and I appreciate it very much!

[Dee821]

OMG! THANK YOU! I kept finding so much in my trash and looked everywhere for what to do! YOU SAVED ME! ❤️ *** is Google doing to us?! So not right! I have enough to worry about and now I need this! UGH. Thanks guys! 😘

[Nooshin]

S22 ultra 

Same problem.

I understood that the "google play services" is doing something with my contacts.( while i single tapped on deleted contacts i saw the wrotten information about that)

So i went to setting>apps>google play services>permission> contacts>don't allow

And finally it worked!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Also i faced a message that some featured may be limited on google play services, i don't know which features, but nothing seriousely happened after banning gpservices of contacts.

Hope to be helpfull🌹🌹

[Raja_Uk]

I trued many other options from YouTube and from Samsung Chat. But as soon I stop Contacts permission for Google Play Services, it stopped deleting the contacts. Otherwise it was deleting half of contacts, as soon as I restore it starts deleting again. Thanks for sharing.

[VJn]

I have the same issue on Note20 ultra. I found more than 250 contacts in the Bin which I had never deleted manually.
If someone has found a solution to this, please share. This is so frustrating whoever is causing this whether Samsung or Google. 🥺