Your list may vary depending on which 3rd party services are syncing contacts to your phone.Īnother way to minimize future duplicates is to pick one method for backing up your contacts. For example, we'll select Phone to show only the contacts saved to the phone. In the same menu where you chose to merge contacts, tap Settings.įrom here, tap Contacts to Display and decide which contacts you want to see. You can keep duplicates from showing up in your contacts list by choosing which ones you want to display. If you want to edit in the future, simply go to the contact you previously merged, tap More or the menu icon, then tap Manage linked contacts. This should make it easier to navigate through your contacts and quickly find the one you need. When you return to your contact list, you can see the contacts for Claire and David have been combined into single listings. In this particular example, by clicking All, you are merging the duplicate contacts for both Claire and David. If you want to make it easy and merge all the contacts listed, simply tap the All checkbox. The icons to the right of the contact let you know that these came from different sources.įrom this screen, you can merge the contacts by checking the boxes next to the ones you want to combine. In the example given here, there are two listings for Claire and David. Tap it to display a list of your duplicates. Tap one of these to open a list of options.Ī dropdown menu appears and if you have any duplicate contacts, you'll see an option to Merge contacts. Depending on your phone and software version, you'll either see More or a menu icon. Here's an example of cleaning up contacts.
Select your device, and click Contacts, then Link/Unlink Contacts. For device specific steps, go to /support.
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Most newer Android phones using the Marshmallow Operating system support the "merge contacts" option. Looks like it's time for some contact clean up! Then, you become friends on Facebook, and before you know it, you have three contact listings for the same person!
You also have her personal number saved in your phone's contact list. Let's say you have a colleague's email address saved to a work email account on your phone.
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In this video, we'll show you how to use your phone's menu options to merge or remove duplicate contacts. Duplicate contacts are really common, and they happen when you're syncing contacts from multiple sources like the cloud, your email, or social media sites.
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