Having duplicate contacts on your phone can be very uncomfortable, especially when you want to make calls or send messages. There could be this subtle confusion going on with you, whether both numbers are correct and there is nothing more attached to either of them.

Sometimes you might even be plagued with this thought, such that deleting these numbers becomes burdensome or even tiring especially when the duplicates affect many, if not all your numbers!

Part 1. How to Merge Contacts in Android

What you are reading right now will help you know how to merge contacts in android. For example, you might want to send a text message to someone and accidentally send it to their old number or even message the wrong person altogether.

So here is a quick question. Have you ever wondered why contacts appear double or even triple on your android device also? Sometimes when you save them just once on your android device, you end up seeing and having more than one of that same saved contact, sometimes in the same section of saved numbers and other times in another section.

To answer this question which is frequently asked and that is "why do I have duplicate contacts on my phone?" It is best to remember these few things as you read along.

Why do you have duplicate contacts on your phone?

Having two (duplicate) contacts or multiple contacts on your phone can happen as a result of the following reasons:  

• Your phone can have more than two of the same numbers saved on your android device when you factory reset your device and then sync your contacts with the devices while your sim card is in it.
• Also, It can occur when you change your SIM and accidentally sync all contacts. So the contacts end up being stored in multiple places at the same time.
• Some other times, when you purchase your phone newly, the initial settings for storage of your contact are phone settings. So when you set out to save new contacts while your sim card is in there, the contacts tend to be saved in the two places, giving room to duplicate contacts in your phone.

If you are tired of seeing or experiencing this on your phone and have been asking yourself  "How do I delete these duplicate contacts from my phone?", be rest assured that you will find your answers and more as you read further.

In this post, we will be showing you how to get rid of duplicates because there are so many different apps (both on mobile and elsewhere) that demand access to your contacts list also.

Note that the removal of these duplicate address book entries is not particularly simple like waving a magic wand and wishing them away, however it is not impossible either.

Here are some solutions to that challenge:

Step 1. Deleting duplicate contacts

Doing this from your Android can either be done singly or in bulk. This can be done manually.

It doesn't matter if your Android phone doesn't have a merger feature in it, you can still take care of duplicate contacts by deleting them manually. This option, even though it takes time, is a useful method.

• All you have to do is to open the contacts app first.
• Then you locate the contacts with the same name by opening the inbuilt contact app on your phone, followed by copying the data to one contact.
• Pick one and add the contact's phone number, email address, and other information to the contact.
• Next, remove the second one. Then, repeat the process for further duplicates. Remember, this approach of deleting duplicate contact can be tiring.

Step 2. Using duplicate contact cleaners

There are free apps you can use to remove duplicate contacts from your phone. Those apps include Contact Optimizer, Duplicate Contact Remover, Simpler Merge Duplicate as well as others. These apps can be downloaded from the play store.

• All you need to do is:
  Download the app from the google play store.
• Launch the app and interact with the user interface.

Step 3. Synchronize all your contacts with your Gmail account

This is another way you can get rid of duplicate contact in your android. This is simply linking all the contacts on your phone to your Gmail account and storing them in the google cloud.

It is generally enabled if you like to keep a backup of your data. All of your contacts will sync with the Gmail account associated with your phone, thanks to an Android built-in function.

If it is enabled, you can remove every duplicate contact from your Android phone without touching it at all.

To enable this:

• Open your Gmail account and click on “Gmail” from the left menu.
• Click on the icon “Contacts'' which you will find in the menu options and all your contacts will be displayed.
• Click on “More” located at the top of the screen and select the ones which you want to delete and delete them.

This method also deletes duplicate numbers at once.

Step 4. Merging Contacts

However, instead of deleting duplicate contacts on your android, this is another option for you. This option, when compared to deleting duplicate contacts, is a very good one because it allows you to save these contacts and removes the thoughts of you being unsure of which contact to delete.

One way of merging duplicate contacts is with Google. This method can be used when your phone data is backed up to your logged-in email.

What this does is, it will enable the contacts to synchronize in Gmail. With the help of this feature, contacts can be synced with a Gmail account that has been logged in from your mobile phone. You cannot save or merge any contacts to a Gmail account that is not logged in to your Android phone.

The benefit of merging your contacts is that it takes two or more contacts that are the same and combines them into one folder or under one name, thereby making your entire contact management system much more effective.

To merge contacts using Gmail, here are the steps to take:

1. At the top right, you'd see an indication, click on it, tap More, and select.
2. Choose the contacts you want to merge.
3. Go to the contact app of your phone and click it open.
4. At the top right, tap More and click on “merge” and your contacts will be merged successfully.

Conclusion.

We have established that it can be tiring when thinking of how to deal with the problem of having to deal with duplicate contacts on your android mobile device. All you need to do is select the best option that works for you and do the needful.

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