About contacts

The People app gives you quick access to the people you want to reach. When you add accounts to your phone, such as Google accounts or email accounts, any contacts from those accounts are added to your phone.

Although you view contact information in the People app, contact profile photos or photos you've assigned to contacts appear throughout your phone (for example, in emails). If a contact has no photo, you'll see an icon before the contact name instead. Touch the photo or icon to see the ways to contact that person - text, email and phone - and start a message or call from any app.