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Duplicate contacts on iCloud and Apple devices

After the Big sur update my contacts have been duplicated now I can see duplicates on my iPhone MacBook Pro and iCloud.

can anyone help me to get rid of the duplicates

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 6:51 AM

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Nov 19, 2020 3:04 PM in response to @shamith39

I've got the same problem of duplicated entries (exact dups) on my iPhones and my MacBook right after I upgrade my MacBook to Big Sur. The duplication happens on the database in iCloud, not just on the phone.


Search this thread and apply the workaround is to login to your iCloud, scroll down to Advance Setting and choose restore the Contact list from the last backup, which in my case 2 days ago.


The restoration popped up some error message when I did on the Big Sur. I tried it again and this time it is successful. Losing the changes for the last 2 days but usually we do not have much changes in the Contact. So, this is the fast and most effective way.


Lesson learn: if you have another MacBook or multiple of them, do not perform another upgrade until next month when Apple gives out another patch or 2nd release to fix the issue or you will have another duplication or triples

Duplicate contacts on iCloud and Apple devices

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