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When I create a contact on my iPhone, how do you make it sync with Google contacts?

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Basically, I want it so that the behavior when I create a contact on my iPhone is that it syncs with Google contacts. My prior experience shows that it only creates the contacts locally on the device and I lose my contacts if I break my device. Thanks for the help!
 

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Go to Settings > Contacts. From that screen look for the "Default Account" option near the bottom and select your Gmail account. From that point on each contact you create should automatically default to your Google account.