I have a OnePlus one mobile. The contacts that I store are getting stored in the Local Phone (I am able to see this when I select "Show Contacts from phone alone"). Those new contacts are not visible in my google contacts and these new contacts are also not visible in Whatsapp.
What should I do to resolve this?
My solution was to migrate contacts from local storage to the Google account via an export and an import.
contacts app > manage contacts > Export
contacts app > manage contacts > Import => destination: Google => source: exported file
Also make sure to make Google your default contacts storage
And turn on sync of contacts.
Unfortunately Export and Import won't bring across the local storage groups. Groups entered in Google do sync across back to the phone.
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