Import Contacts from Mobile Device Contact Lists into Salesforce

Sales reps can save time and eliminate typos by using the Salesforce mobile app to import contacts from mobile device contact lists into Salesforce. This feature is available only in Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: All Editions
  1. In the Salesforce mobile app, navigate to where you create contacts.
  2. To open the device’s contact list, tap Import from Device.
  3. Select a contact.
  4. To associate the contact with an account in Salesforce, go to the contact record in Salesforce and add an account.

When importing contacts from a mobile device, these fields are mapped from your device’s contact to the Salesforce contact.

  • Email
  • Home Phone
  • Mailing City
  • Mailing Country
  • Mailing Postal Code
  • Mailing State
  • Mailing Street
  • Mobile
  • Other Phone
  • Phone
Note
Note In some situations, mappings from the local device don’t map as expected to the Salesforce contact record.