Here’s how to merge contacts on iPhone and delete duplicates, as well as how to delete a contact.
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(Pocket-lint) — There was a time when all your contacts were stored on the good old fashioned SIM card so duplicate contacts wasn’t really a thing — or at least not as much of a thing as it is these days.
Now, your phone’s contacts list likely comes from a number of different places — an iCloud backup, Gmail contacts and perhaps contacts from another email account for example — resulting in what could be several duplicates.
Prior to iOS 16, cleaning up your contacts was no easy task. If you are running iOS 16 or later though, it’s a piece of cake.
Here’s how to clean up your contacts on iPhone and get rid of those duplicates. How to merge contacts on iPhone and delete duplicates
In order to get rid of duplicate contacts on iPhone and clean up your contacts so you only have one contact card for Joe Bloggs with all the information from the other three cards you might have, follow these steps.
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Make sure your iPhone is running iOS 16 or later
Open the Phone app
Tap on the ‘Contacts’ tab in the bottom centre
If you have duplicate contacts, a pop up will appear under your card at the top of the display
Tap ‘View Duplicates’
A list of all the duplicated contacts will appear in a list.
