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Do you get frustrated when you need to email a friend and can't remember their email address? A simple way of avoiding this is by adding your friend's email address to your address book. This wikiHow article teaches you how to add email addresses to your contacts or address book.

Things You Should Know

  • Gmail automatically saves the email addresses that you reply to, but you can manually save a contact by hovering over their name in the email and clicking "Add to Contacts".
  • Save email addresses in Apple Mail by clicking or tapping the sender's name, editing their contact info, and clicking "Done".
  • In Outlook, open the email that you want to save then right-click the sender's name and select "Add to Contacts".
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Gmail

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  1. To do this, open the Gmail app on your phone or tablet, or go to https://mail.google.com .
  2. If you're on a computer, hover your cursor over the sender's name and the contact card will pop up. If you're using a phone or tablet, tap their profile picture (it could just be the first letter of their name, like "H" inside a circle).
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  3. This will open Contacts on your phone or tablet so you can edit the contact as you're saving it.
    • On a web browser, tap Edit Contact if you want to make any changes to that entry in your address book.
    • You can make it so Gmail automatically saves the email addresses that you reply to in Settings > General > Create contacts for auto-complete." [1]
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Apple Mail on iPhone, iPad, or Mac

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  1. To do this, open the Apple Mail app on your phone, tablet, or computer, or go to https://www.icloud.com/mail .
  2. A window will open.
  3. You can change the name, what sort of contact this is (home, work, other), and a few other options.
    • Click or tap Done when you're finished. [2]
    • If that person is already a contact and you just want to add the new email address, tap Add to Existing Contact instead.
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Outlook

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  1. To do this, open the Outlook app on your phone, tablet, or computer, or go to https://outlook.live.com in a web browser.
  2. If you don't see their name in the "From" line, make sure that you have the email opened instead of previewing it.
    • If you're using a phone or tablet, tap the name instead.
  3. A new window will open so you can edit their contact details before saving.
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