Email, Messaging, & Video Calls > Email How to Restore Your Gmail Contacts to a Previous State When importing contacts goes haywire, there is a fix By Heinz Tschabitscher Heinz Tschabitscher Writer University of Vienna A former freelance contributor who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on November 23, 2021 Reviewed by Jon Fisher Reviewed by Jon Fisher Wichita Technical Institute Jonathan Fisher is a CompTIA certified technologist with more than 6 years' experience writing for publications like TechNorms and Help Desk Geek. lifewire's editorial guidelines Email Gmail Yahoo! Mail Trending Videos Close this video player What to Know From your Gmail account in a browser, select the Google Apps icon, which looks like a grid of dots.Choose Contacts. Select the Settings gear and choose Undo Changes.Select the time to which you want to revert and choose Confirm. This article explains how to restore your Gmail contacts to a previous state. Restore Your Gmail Contacts to a Previous State Importing contacts to Gmail isn't hard, but it can go wrong. When that happens, don't worry. You can restore previous contact settings from any time during the last 30 days. Gmail automatically creates and keeps backup snapshots for your Gmail address book, so restoring your entire Gmail contact list to the state in which it was at any point in the last month is a snap. Follow these steps to recover the state of your Gmail contacts from any point in the last 30 days. From your Gmail account, in the upper-right corner, select Google apps (the icon that looks like a grid of dots). Choose Contacts. In the upper-right corner, select the Settings Gear. Select Undo changes. In the Undo changes dialog box, select the time to which you want to revert, then select Undo. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit