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
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
I also have duplicates on my Iphone , MacBook and Icloud after the Big sur update
and in Icloud Contacts - i have a lot of Cards that contain different numver of contacts
Same problem. After installing big sur all the contacts on iphone doubled
Mine actually tripled.
There should be a way to remove them en masse as opposed to one at a time.
Same problem here... All my contacts are duplicated.
I have over 20,000 duplicated contacts. I had 4,500 contacts, since installing Big Sur this afternoon I now have over 25,000. Some duplicates appear 50+ times. Nice work, Apple.
This isn't limited to iCloud, unfortunately. I have the same issue with contacts synced with a CalDAV server.
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I'm in the same boat. We use contacts for our business because it syncs with everyone's iPhones. I went from 4,700 to almost 20,000 contacts. Every group and contact was duplicated so there are now 4 of each. Not sure whether to forge ahead and use some 3rd party duplicate contact fixer.
I was able to use google contacts to remove the duplicates. It has a dup find and merge function. Took multiple passes and about an hour. I also turned off the contacts synch between google and my MacBook look under internet accounts and uncheck the “Contacts” box in your google account settings.
I also have the same problem. When I opened up iCloud I realized that all my contact groups were duplicated as well. I removed the duplicates, but the duplicated contacts are still there. Gah.
Actually, I managed to solve this problem in a few minutes by visiting https://www.icloud.com/settings/, scrolling down to "Advanced settings", clicking "Restore contacts" and then roll back to an older backup of my contact list (before the Big Sur update). Now all my duplicates are gone ☺️
Works perfectly!!! Thank you for the tip.
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