What Does Linked Contact Mean on Android?

A Linked Contact is a way to link one contact to a related contact. For instance, you might want to link all the employees of a specific department. To do this, open one of those contacts and scroll down to the bottom. Tap the section labeled Linked Contacts (Figure C) and then tap the Add Link Contact button.

What does it mean when a contact is linked?

I am sure you probably have the same contacts in multiple sources and LINK is a way of telling Android that these contacts, from the different sources, are same. Once you link the contacts Android will merge the contact details i.e. one contact will be shown with all the details from every source.

What happens when you link contacts on your phone?

Originally Answered: What can linked contacts do on mobile phone ? The contacts in your phone and social networks/emails like Google+/Facebook/Gmail/etc will all be connected and you might have a single contact with all the details in other accounts linked rather than multiple accounts.