Migrating to a newer phone can be exciting, but also challenging at the same time. That’s because setting up a new device to work well for you is a tricky business, and the first part of that is saving the phone numbers and contact information of everyone you talk to on your new device.

In the early 2000s, cell phones weren’t as common as they are now, and there weren’t as many phone numbers to store. Most of us, if you were born before the 2000s, knew those numbers down to the last digit. With the advent of smartphones and their cheaper versions, we had to store more and more people’s contact information, to the point where we couldn’t remember any of them.

Luckily, Android offers multiple ways to back up contacts and restore them to your newer phone or in case you lose your old phone. You can export all your contacts to an external source and import them to your primary device later whenever you want.

Google offers its own ways to back up contacts, and so do most Android phone manufacturers, who add a version of their own software to Android. If that wasn’t enough, Google Play is full of alternative third-party apps for backing up contacts and restoring them later.