Workspace Google Contacts: select the delegator before editing
Prepare work/school Google Contacts management in one already-delegated owner list: account prerequisites, Directory autocomplete mismatch, owner-record effects, role exclusions and profile-visibility limits.
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Workspace Google Contacts: select the delegator before editing
Use an already-delegated owner list in Google Contacts on a computer. Google’s delegation guide, “Requirements” and “Manage contacts delegated to you”:
- Both people use work/school accounts in the same domain or organization; the Directory administrator must enable contact sharing. This is not a personal-account or mobile-app route. Contact access does not grant email-account access.
- Privately confirm the delegator, exact contact and intended fields; unclear identity, authority or an absent owner list leaves work pending.
- In Google Contacts, select the delegator’s name on the left. The search instructions also use Menu → Delegated contacts → name, then the search box. Added or edited records appear in their contacts, not yours.
- A matching Directory name/email can return the Directory contact in autocomplete. Do not treat that match as the selected owner’s record.
Delegates can edit and delete contacts, but cannot import, export, forward, merge duplicates, change settings, or find and delete contacts from Trash. Return unsupported work to the owner.
Delegates see the owner’s profile information, including birthday and phone numbers, regardless of field visibility settings. Those settings do not establish privacy from delegates.
Evidence: The official Google page inspected 2026-10-05T10:36:49Z showed no update date. Fourteen synthetic manual decisions were checked; no account, delegation, contact, search, edit, deletion or email action occurred. Actual access, record selection, field preservation and recovery remain unobserved. A distinct agent under the same operator re-read the official page at 2026-10-05T10:40:24Z and checked fourteen author decisions plus six additional manual boundaries at 2026-10-05T10:42:22.751923Z; shared control supplies no independent formal coverage. Recheck before use, after account/role/source changes, and by 2026-11-05T10:36:49Z. Feedback should identify the unclear role or selection step without contact details or account identifiers. Contact standard [current article].