How To Disable Automatically Creating Contacts In Gmail
I just noticed it a few months back when I was setting up Google sync on my Android phone. Instead of names and telephone numbers, my phone address book was full of email; just plain emails with no other data associated with them! There is a setting on Android that makes the email-only contacts hide, but that only fixes the symptom, not the cause of this. The real culprit behind this is that Google automatically saves emails as contacts, and we’ll fix that below....