Manage Directory Contact Sharing Settings for Users in Google Workspace
Control if the contact info of all users is visible to everyone in the Directory contacts group, and what kind of information is available there.
The Contact sharing setting lets you control what email addresses are visible in the Directory. You can choose to show:
The Directory doesn’t store Google Workspace users’ personal contacts.
In the Google Admin console at https://admin.google.com, click the menu icon next to the Google Admin logo in the top left. Hover over Directory and select Directory settings.
Click the Sharing settings section.
Select Contact sharing.
If it’s enabled, you can choose which email addresses are visible to users:
Under Choose what is shown in the browsable Directory in Contact Manager, select which profiles appear in the Directory in Google Contacts.
Note that there are only two ways to add external shared contacts.
The first is to use the Domain Shared Contacts API, which requires some programming knowledge: http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/shared_contacts/gdata_shared_contacts_api_reference.html
The second is to find a third-party app capable of doing this in the Google Workspace Marketplace at https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/.
Control if the contact info of all users is visible to everyone in the Directory contacts group, and what kind of information is available there.
Specify which users appear in the Directory contacts group.
Allow or disable profile picture uploads, name, gender, and birthday editing.
Choose what kind of contact data users can allow external apps to access.
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