How to Quickly Delete Duplicate iPhone Contacts
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Have dozens or even hundreds of duplicate entries in the address book on your iPhone? This is a quick fix for it.
Duplicate contacts can occasionally arise while transferring Apple contacts across devices. Fortunately, there are simple ways to delete these contacts from your phone and prevent yourself from having ten duplicates of the same person on your phone using your Mac, iPhone, or even your browser.
Eliminate redundant contacts from your iPhone.
Thankfully, iOS has advanced significantly and you can now easily examine and combine duplicate contacts on your iPhone. It's pretty simple to do this; just launch the Contacts app and navigate to the top of the list. A card that reads "Duplicate Found" will appear beneath your name if your phone has duplicate contacts. To resolve duplicate contacts on your iPhone, tap View Duplicates and choose Merge All.
On a Mac, remove duplicates using the Contacts app.
On a Mac, you can use the integrated Contacts software to remove duplicate entries from your iCloud address book. You must first make sure that your Mac and iCloud contacts are synchronizing for this to function; otherwise, you won't be able to see anyone on the app. To access System Preferences > Apple ID on your Mac, simply click the Apple logo in the upper-left corner of the home screen. Ensure that Contacts is selected under "Apps on This Mac Using iCloud."
Once that's done, open the Contacts application on Mac. If you're having trouble accessing Spotlight search, use the Command+Space Bar shortcut (or try these better alternatives). To open the program, type Contacts into the search field. This is where you can see every duplicate entry in your contact list. To find every duplication quickly, navigate to Card > Look for Duplicates from the top menu bar.
The Contacts app will display the number of duplicates you have a few seconds later. This pop-up window asks you if you want to combine contacts with the same name but different details. For example, there could be two entries for John Doe, but only one has his phone number and the other his email address. There is a checkbox for that. Checking this box is voluntary, however it is an option.
Click Merge when you're ready, and the Contacts app will take care of the rest.
On iCloud.com, manually identify and remove duplicates
As an alternative, you can manually choose and eliminate duplicate contacts using iCloud.com. Keep in mind that mobile devices, such your iPhone, cannot be used with this method. To access iCloud contacts, you must launch iCloud.com on a desktop or laptop computer.
Open any browser, go to iCloud.com, and sign in to get started. To browse your address book online after logging in, click Contacts. You may see all of your contacts with this. Look for any duplicate contacts by scrolling down. Click each duplicate contact until they are all selected by holding down Command on a Mac or Control on a Windows computer.
Simply hit Delete on the keyboard at this point. A pop-up confirmation window asking if you're sure you want to remove those contacts will appear. Because you do, choose Delete to remove the duplicate entries.
To get rid of duplicate iCloud contacts, use Gmail.
If you have no choice but to use a browser but don't want to spend hours manually choosing 10,000 duplicate contacts,
With Google's automated tools, you can easily export iCloud contacts to Gmail and remove duplicates. It's crucial that you know exactly what we're going to accomplish before moving forward because doing it the wrong way could result in the loss of all of your contacts.
All of the contacts will be exported from iCloud, imported into Google Contacts, and any duplicates will be eliminated. After that, we'll import Google Contacts' de-duplicated contact list and remove every contact from iCloud. You run the risk of losing your contacts if something goes wrong along the process, so make sure you have a backup of every contact and proceed with caution.
Using any browser, start by logging into iCloud contacts. Click the three dots symbol at the top to choose all of your contacts after opening iCloud contacts. On iCloud.com, select all contacts, then click the gear icon again and choose Export vCard. Your contacts will be exported as a.vcf file that you can store anywhere on your computer.
Next, open your browser and log into Google Contacts. To assist you prevent confusion, it's recommended to utilize a brand-new Google account without any saved contacts. Click the Import button in the left pane and select the file from the pop-up window after logging in. Locate the file (.vcf) that you exported from iCloud, pick it, and then choose Import.
Importing all of your contacts into Google Contacts will take a few seconds. After it's finished, a label in the left pane will display all of the imported contacts nicely arranged. Normally, it says, "Imported on DATE." Once every contact has been imported, choose Merge & repair from the left pane, located beneath the button labeled "Frequently contacted."
This will allow you to merge your duplicates as well as view them altogether. Refresh the page once if it doesn't display any suggestions. After making sure that all duplicate contacts are displayed, click Merge all. Lastly, verify that all contacts have been combined by clicking the Contacts button in the left pane.
It's time to export those combined contacts right now. After choosing the first contact from the list, click the down arrow next to the text that says "1" on the left. To pick every contact, click All. Toggle the three-dot icon beneath the upper search bar. Choose Export. Click Export after selecting vCard under Export as in the pop-up window. On your computer, save this file in a secure location.
Restoring these corrected contacts to iCloud is our goal. Navigate back to your iCloud contacts in any browser, select all contacts by clicking the three dots at the top of the screen. To erase every contact from iCloud, if you haven't previously, click the three dots icon once more and select Delete Contacts.
After that is finished, click the + button and choose Import Contact from the iCloud contacts webpage's top-right corner. Take the contacts file out of Google Contacts and import it. This will resolve all of your iCloud duplicate contacts.
