# How to Share Contact Information on Android

**URL:** https://www.compsmag.com/blogs/how-to-share-contact-information-on-android/
**Author:** Ayushi Chauhan
**Published:** 2022-12-15
**Updated:** 2022-12-15
**Categories:** Blogs
**Tags:** Android Guides, Blogs Daily, guiderobert, Guides and Tutorials, guiding12, How To Guide, How To Guides, Originals How to, Tips, Tricks
**Reading Time:** 3 min

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Sharing contact cards is actually the most convenient approach to handle certain circumstances—you don’t have to search for the number, try to remember it while you enter, or switch between apps to get it properly. Instead, it is preferable to provide all of Dan’s information with only a few taps so that the receiver may add them to their contacts right away.

The Contacts app, which ought to be on every phone under the sun, is the best place to start in Android for accomplishing this.Open the contacts app and look for the contact you wish to share. Use the search option if you like; find it to be the simplest. Once you’ve located the person, click on the entry to bring up their business card. We have mentioned steps below to **Share Contact Information on Android**

## Steps to Share Contact Information on Android

Open your **Contacts app**. This can be done from the app drawer, or you can tap the Contacts tab in your phone’s dialer.

Now find the contact you want to send and long press on it. A new menu should open where you tap Send business card via at the bottom.

Depending on which version of Android you are using, you will have **different options** here.

People with Android 2.1 or earlier will not be able to receive namecards via text message.

They will also not be able to store **namecards** sent via email, but they will be able to extract the phone number (as shown in step 4).

**Bluetooth transfers** are actually not a problem and automatically add themselves to the phone on all Android versions.

However, there is no way to prevent the contact from being added automatically.

**Android name cards** are in .vcf format and many non-Android phones cannot read them.

When a vCard is received via email, the options also vary depending on whether you are using Froyo (2.2) or not. On 2.1 and earlier, there is only a preview option, but you will still be able to tap the phone number in the preview to quickly call it. If you’re **using Android 2.2**, you’ll be able to download the contact directly from your email or other service through which it was shared.

## Final Words

We hope like our article on how to Share Contact Information on Android. The contacts on your Android devices may occasionally overlap if you use multiple ones, perhaps one for work and another for personal usage. You might need to transfer contacts in this situation from one Android device to another.

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