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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we all live and work. The rise in remote working has resulted in a need for even greater communication, collaboration and flexibility. OpenText FirstClass® is a powerful collaboration solution that drives teamwork, improves communication, makes people and information easily accessible from any mobile device, and ensures team members are connected within the organization. FirstClass is a fully integrated solution that is cost-effective, flexible and easy to administer. It empowers individuals and teams to work together toward a common goal, with a shared sense of purpose and new ways to participate.

Restoring contacts on my Google account. You can synchronize contacts from Google into your Essence or Raven. However, if you delete such contacts in your phone the contacts will be deleted also in your Google account. To restore your Google contacts follow these steps: Login to your Gmail account. In top left corner click on Gmail, then Contacts. How to Retrieve Deleted Texts. This wikiHow teaches you how to restore deleted text messages on iPhone and Android phones by restoring backups. While using paid recovery software can be tempting, be careful about purchasing such software.

Contacts can be viewed, in your computer, at, if correctly synced to your Gmail account. You can restore Contacts up to 30 days prior. Go to Settings Undo Changes (Settings under little 'gear wheel' top right hand corner). There is a limit to number and size of Google Contacts. Apr 04, 2018 Go ahead and press Recover button at the bottom right corner of the window, then select a path to store the restored phone contacts in the dialog box that opens. Finally, hit the Recover button and the software will restore multiple phone contacts together with all details at once. The restoration is a quick process.

Designed to support collaboration, FirstClass offers easy and secure communication, mobile access, personalization, integration with other applications, and safe, reliable archiving.

Collaborate

FirstClass provides a rich, socially collaborative experience within an online environment.

  • Communities for defined organizations, departments, and ad hoc groups
  • Threaded discussions, subfolders, wikis, calendars, and file storage areas
  • Support for rich text content, attachments, embedded images, and videos
  • Drag and drop, and full editing capabilities

Communicate

FirstClass offers fully functional email, voicemail, and calendaring capabilities that enable users to securely communicate within the internal online community or with anyone outside the organization.

  • Email and instant messaging
  • Calendars and scheduling
  • Contact management
  • Anytime, Anywhere Access

Mobile

Your FirstClass account is easily accessible from desktop browsers or mobile devices.

  • A true anytime, anywhere mobile collaboration experience
  • Available for the iPhone®, iPad®, Android®, and Windows Mobile and Surface RT Tablets

Personalize

Dashboards allow individuals to decide which information they want presented to them, encouraging greater productivity and a more relevant experience.

  • Customized views
  • Personal information management and workspace
  • Personal profiles and blogs
  • 'My People' list and status updates
  • Ability to “pin” frequently visited content and follow topics of interest

Integration

An open API allows integration with HTML 5–based applications, providing one central point for collaboration.

  • Auth Client support
  • Flexible group/membership access

Archiving

FirstClass satisfies requirements for archiving of electronic messaging for industry regulations and internal policies.

  • Reliable long-term storage of historical messages
  • Comprehensive archiving, retention and searching capabilities for all FirstClass messages

FirstClass includes a family of components that together fully support all of your collaboration and communication needs.

Collaboration

Take advantage of the rich collaboration environment in FirstClass to share content, engage in threaded discussions, connect with coworkers and keep up to date with what’s happening in your organization.

Communities

Create shared spaces for working with colleagues inside your network and partners outside your network. Use a wide range of social networking tools.

Instant Messaging

Collaborate in real time with people, or your team/group using FirstClass Instant Messaging, text, and video chat.

Blogging and Micro-blogging

Make your voice heard within your organization by sharing your expertise and insights with others within a secure environment.

Personal Web Publishing

Take advantage of our comprehensive set of web publishing tools to create your own personal website within the community. No knowledge of HTML required.

Profiles

Allow other members of the organization to get to know you and your areas of expertise.

Mobility

Connect to your network and continue collaborating from anywhere at anytime via iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile and Surface RT Tablets.

Calendaring

Personal and group calendars enable you to easily manage your schedule, plan meetings and book resources online.

Contacts

FirstClass provides a fully customizable address book with mobile sync options, and enables you to share your important contacts with specific people or your team.

File Storage and Sharing

Files of any type can be transferred to shared workspaces or to your personal file storage repository on the system through simple drag and drop.

Search

Need to find that particular document, wiki, or person fast? Our search facility allows you to quickly retrieve relevancy ranked information.

Archive Services

Easily archive and retrieve messages and calendar items on an individual or group basis.

Cloud

No hardware, no backup, no upgrade headaches. Let us run your system in a secure, state-of-the-art hosting facility. Log in and access your content and community through any browser or mobile device.

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Download FirstClass GO

iOS Devices

iOS 9 or higher

Requires FirstClass Server and Web Services 16.0 or higher

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Download FirstClass Desktop Client, Microsoft Windows Edition

The FirstClass 16.201 Client offers a fantastic suite of new features, designed to make FirstClass collaboration even more powerful and easy to use.

License Free
File Size 39.6 MB
Version 16.201
Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows 8
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019

Download FirstClass Desktop Client, macOS Edition

The FirstClass 16.201 Client offers a fantastic suite of new features, designed to make FirstClass collaboration even more powerful and easy to use.

License Free
File Size 20.3 MB
Version 16.201
Supported Operating Systems

  • macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • macOS 10.14 Mojave
  • macOS 10.15 Catalina

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Many people have several email addresses across disparate email providers, all of which keep track of their contacts. Google Contacts, for example, is a standalone service which only tracks people you’ve contacted via Gmail, when using an Android phone, or if you’ve synced it to your iOS device.

Apple keeps your contacts within its standalone “Contacts” app. Both entities are siloed vaults for contacts, and it can be confusing when your contacts aren’t synced to the devices you use most often. If you deleted a contact in Google Contacts, it’s also smart to have all your contacts synced to another service and to backup your device often so you never lose any data.

Here, we’ll tell you how to sync Google Contacts to iPhone, if there’s a Google Contacts for iPhone app, how to import contacts from Google to iPhone manually, and why it’s important to have your Google contacts on iPhone.

Reasons to transfer your Google contacts to iPhone

Many people use Gmail as their default email provider and can’t see a reason to export Google contacts to iPhone. It’s a fair position, but these are a few reasons importing Google contacts to iPhone is a great idea:

  • You have one place for all contacts. Gmail for personal use, iCloud for your Apple devices, Outlook for work – all the unique email providers log your contacts in distinct vaults. Having one place all your contacts live is smart.
  • Services often don’t sync. You may be emailing someone new fairly often, then go to text them and find they’re not in your contacts list. That’s because services often don’t sync contacts automatically. Routine backups and syncing are the right moves to make.
  • You can merge contact info. When you sync your Google contacts to iPhone, there’s an option to merge contacts. Someone may have emailed from a Gmail address, but you’ve got their Outlook and phone number in another contact. After you import, you can simply merge the two profiles.
  • Google makes changes (often). Google once kept your contacts in Gmail, then moved them to the standalone Google Contacts service. There were no widespread reports of contacts being deleted with this transfer, but Google likes to shift ground beneath you. It’s better to sync your Google information to iCloud and back it all up.
  • You don’t want to use Gmail anymore. People often switch email providers. Many also want to break free of Google due to privacy concerns. After syncing your contacts, you’re free to email people from an iCloud or other email address with the same ease of using Gmail.
  • iCloud supports ‘Push’ syncing on iPhone. For syncing contacts and data, Apple forces Gmail and other services to use a ‘Fetch’ protocol to get new data. This means your data is synced less frequently, which can cause contacts to not sync properly, or when you need them.

How to sync Google contacts to an iPhone

You can sync Google contacts to iOS without ever touching your iPhone! Syncing iCloud to all of your Apple devices will keep your iCloud contact data on each of your devices. This means you can grab Google contacts from the web and download them to your Mac. Here’s how:

  1. Go to google.com
  2. Sign into Google if necessary
  3. Open the Google Contacts app from the nine-dot menu on the top right of the page
  4. From the Google Contacts website, select “Export”
  5. Choose “vCard (for iOS Contacts)” from the popup window
  6. Select “Export”

This downloads all of your Google contacts in vCard format to your Mac. To read and download Google contacts iPhone will need them to be in vCard format, so don’t overlook that step.

With your Google contacts downloaded in vCard format, follow these steps on your Mac to download and sync the contacts to your iCloud account:

  1. Open the Contacts app on your Mac
  2. From the menu bar, select “File”
  3. Choose “Import”
  4. Select the vCard file downloaded from the Google Contacts website
  5. Choose “Open”
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Your Google contacts will download to your Mac’s Contacts app, which syncs with iCloud.

Sync Google contacts to iPhone via settings

If you want to skip the Mac altogether, you can! In the iPhone’s settings, you can sync your Google contacts data directly. Just remember it only ‘fetches’ data and won’t push new or changed contact data to your device automatically. If you’re syncing data and don’t see a contact, this may be why.

First, you need to add your Google account to your iPhone. If your Google account is already synced to your iPhone, feel free to skip these steps. Otherwise, this is how to add your Google account to the iPhone:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
  2. Select “Mail”
  3. Choose “Accounts”
  4. Select “Add Account”
  5. Choose “Google” from the list
  6. Follow the on-screen prompts and enter your Google account login credentials

Here’s how to sync Google contacts to iPhone via the Settings app:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
  2. Select “Mail”
  3. Choose “Accounts”
  4. Select your Gmail account
  5. Make sure “Contacts” is toggled on

Whichever method for syncing contacts you use, one thing you should definitely do is create backups of your iPhone. For that, AnyTrans is exactly what you need.

With AnyTrans for Mac, you have complete control over your iPhone. Simply open the AnyTrans app, plug your iPhone into the Mac, and you will be able to create backups of your entire device, or particular items like messages, photos, and even contacts!

AnyTrans has a ton of other features, too, including the option to quickly transfer your iPhone’s data to a new device. You can also manage your home screen, delete apps from your iPhone, restore your phone from previous backups, and curate your media library!

Import Google contacts to iPhone with iCloud

After importing your Google contacts to your Mac, iCloud should sync your contacts across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

To verify your iCloud contacts are synced with your Mac, follow these steps:

  1. From the Mac menu bar, select the Apple logo on the top left corner
  2. Select “System Preferences”
  3. Choose “Apple ID” at the top right corner of the new window
  4. Select “iCloud” from the left side of the window
  5. Make sure “Contacts” is toggled on

On your iPhone, ensure your iCloud contacts are syncing by following these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
  2. Select your Apple ID name banner at the top of the screen
  3. Choose “iCloud”
  4. Ensure “Contacts” is toggled on

If you like, feel free to toggle contacts off and back on to trigger syncing. This shouldn’t be necessary, but doing so will ping the iCloud servers to initiate syncing of contacts or any other cloud service to your iPhone.

Contacts is one of the services iCloud syncs across your devices. There’s also Mail, which keeps your inbox and folders current on all devices; Reminders, to help you manage to-do lists and trigger reminders when you’re at a location; Notes, which syncs and shares all of the data in your Notes app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac; Messages, to ensure all chats are up to date; and Safari, which keeps open tabs, the reading list, and bookmarks synced on all of your Apple devices.

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Those services all stake their claim to your iCloud storage, but none as much as Photos. Most users will notice their iCloud data allotment is dominated by the pics and video in the Photos app, which is synced across all Apple devices. Much of what’s found in Photos may be unnecessary, too; old photos, screenshots, and blurred images occupy precious space.

To help manage your iCloud media storage, get Gemini.

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The Gemini app for Mac helps you manage similar and duplicate images in your Photos folder, which you are then able to delete quickly. The Gemini iOS app continually watches your Photos app for video, screenshots, and other categories. It then creates unique folders for those media types in the Gemini app, and provides a quick and easy way to bulk-delete your images. The gigabytes of iCloud storage you will reclaim with Gemini make it well worth a download.

Conclusion

Managing contacts on your Apple devices is simple. You may prefer to sync your Google contacts and continue using Gmail and other Google services, or download and add all of your Google contacts to iCloud. Either way, you’re in full control.

AnyTrans is a great app for managing backups, a practice we should all be in as we move and sync data across services. If anything goes awry, a backup helps you recover data with ease.

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Gemini helps manage files, folders, and photos to keep your iCloud free of unneeded files. If you’re going to sync data, you should keep as much room available in your cloud storage account as possible.

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