Help Gmail is not syncing contacts on my Note 7

[The_Chief]

Okay folks, maybe my feeble mind is overlooking something, so I thank you in advance for enlightening me.

I try to send an email to people in my contacts, and Google will not autofill or suggest anything. I have to literally type out each address on every email I send... and I'm frankly growing weary of it. Every phone I've owned up to now, I would start typing their name and, within a letter or two, Google would pop up the name and address from contacts and I would just tap on it. Not anymore!

So what am I missing here?

 

[TrueFangz]

If I remember correctly, the first time I tried this last week, I had to tap on something to allow Gmail permissions to access my contacts (even though half of my contacts come from that same account)

That's one thing I noticed, is that I seem to have to allow permissions everywhere on this phone, where as I don't remember it being this bad on any of my previous phones.

 

[The_Chief]

That was it! I seriously do not recall Gmail ever asking me for the permissions, but I went into Application Manager and no permissions were set for Gmail. I fixed that and problem solved! Thanks, Fangz

 

[TrueFangz]

NP! Glad that helped. I wish I could remember exactly what it said, but I remember while typing an name in the "to" field, a small box showed up (within the gmail app) asking if I wanted to allow permissions or something to that effect, and I never had to leave the app.