How Do I Get Rid of Double Contacts on Android?
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Why do I have so many duplicate contacts on my Android?

Access your Contacts app and tap on the menu button. From the menu, tap on “Merge accounts” and from next prompt tap on “Merge from Google”. From the next prompt, tap on “OK” and all your contacts will be merged. This will merge the accounts to get rid of duplicate contacts that were created due to multiple accounts.

To unlink a linked contact:

  1. Select the contact from your list.
  2. Press Edit in the top-right corner of Contacts.
  3. Press Linked Contacts.
  4. Press Remove to unlink an entry from the linked contact.
  5. Press Close if you do not want to unlink any more contacts.
  6. Finally, press Done to finish editing.
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