Google Restore or Samsung Restore?

Contacts are separate. The best question is, have you been storing contacts under your Google account or on the phone itself/to your Samsung account?

Every Samsung phone I know of also had an option for which contacts to display, so if you did end up with duplicates, you could hide one set.

Personally, I always save my contacts to Google, along with settings & etc. Keeps me from having to do more work when I get a non Samsung phone. Since my 6P is on its way to me, in glad I've done that.

 

I'm not sure, because I've never used Smart Switch, but it was my impression that it's actually more for switching to a Samsung device from another manufacturer, but maybe I misunderstood that when it was announced.

As I said, I've always preferred the Google method. If nothing else, I always have access to my contacts if I've got internet access, even on the PC.

 

Thanks for the info! Yet another reason I make sure that I'm saving contacts to my Google account, but glad to know the tool works to transfer them if you don't do so.