Duplicated contacts on the phone but not on iCloud

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Duplicated contacts on the phone but not on iCloud

Strange, on my iPhone contacts there are several duplicates but don't show on iCloud.

How to eliminate duplicates (not one by one possibly)?

iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Mar 9, 2020 1:04 AM

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nsiotto Author

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Mar 9, 2020 5:20 AM in response to nsiotto

I have only iCloud synced with contacts. Other accounts aren't. I made sure of that.

However I seem to have solved the issue by unselecting iCloud until I saw all contacts disappear and then select it again. Will wait to see if the issue occurs again. Maybe a mobile glitch. Thanks.

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Mar 9, 2020 1:05 AM in response to nsiotto

Contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

How many Contacts account (email client server) you have?
What is your default Contacts Account?
Which email account you are using to store Contacts?

See the GIF below for Contacts and Default Account

Learn how to add an email account and make it default (Watch the GIF)
This example is for Gmail but the process remains same for all Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

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Duplicated contacts on the phone but not on iCloud

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