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All of a sudden, almost every contact has a duplicate entry. However, when I run "merge duplicates", it says there are no duplicates. Note that in iCloud and on iPhone there are no duplicates. Just on my mac.
MacBook Air
Hello gwenstanley,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you're having trouble with duplicate contacts on you Mac. We are happy to share information that may help.
We'd like to be sure you've tried the steps here: If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts.
If you manually delete a duplicate contact, does it reappear, or remain deleted?
Take care.
Hello gwenstanley,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you're having trouble with duplicate contacts on you Mac. We are happy to share information that may help.
We'd like to be sure you've tried the steps here: If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts.
If you manually delete a duplicate contact, does it reappear, or remain deleted?
Take care.
macOS is now Big Sur 11.2.2. iPhone is IOS 14.4
Hello gwenstanley,
Thank you for following up.
So we can assist further, please provide the following details:
-Did this happen after making any changes to your contacts or your Mac?
-Which macOS version are you using?
-How were the contacts originally added to your Mac?
Take care.
They remain deleted.
Hello gwenstanley,
Thank you for your reply.
For more help with this, you'll want to reach out to Apple Support: Get Support.
Take care.
Duplicate contacts on macbook but "merge duplicates" says there are none.
