It is quite a time consuming to detect and remove all duplicate contacts on your iPhone. Fortunately, there is a handy app available that does the work for you. Here's a simple four-step guide for you to remove all the duplicate contacts from your iPhone.
Remove Duplicate Contacts from iPhone
As you may recall, in the past you had to keep track of all phone numbers in the default Contacts app manually. With the introduction of iCloud, luckily changed, as Apple's cloud service automatically synchronizes contacts across all of your iOS devices.
Yet it can happen that you have (a lot of) duplicate contacts in your iPhone. This may be because you have Gmail, Outlook or another service linked to your contact list. Very annoying, especially when you have a large list of telephone numbers. Fortunately, there are a few apps that help you maintain an overview and Smart Merge is a good example.
By following the four steps below, you can remove all duplicate contacts from your iOS device in minutes.
- Download Smart Merge from the App Store and create an account
- Give the app permission to import your contacts
- Smart Merge now automatically searches for possible duplicate contacts. Press 'Show doubles' to view them
- Check carefully if it is actually double contacts. Then tap "Fuse" to merge them.
More about Smart Merge
Smart Merge has been on the App Store for a while but is still regularly updated. The latest update has also made the application faster and more stable. The app simply supports the screen of the iPhone X and later the iPhone XS and XS Max.
The application also has many more useful functionalities. An example of this is the possibility to edit contacts more extensively. You can also upload it directly to, for example, Dropbox or Google Drive. Reasons enough to check Smart Merge!
That is it! This is how we can merge or remove duplicate contacts from our iPhone device in just simple 4 steps. If you have any other queries let us know them in the below contact box and we will get back to you to solve all your questions with the best solution we got.
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