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I have three thousands contacts in the Contacts application on the Mac. There are no duplicates.
These are synced with iCloud.
On the iPhone, I have more than 15,000 contacts, of course with many many duplicates.
If I log-in to iCloud.com I see there are lots of duplicates to.
I would like that the iCloud.com and iPhone contacts apps have the same exactly contact I have on the Mac.
Please help, thank you
iPhone XS, iOS 16
Greetings rgg_rgg,
You can learn how to remove duplicate contacts below:
"Resolve duplicate contacts
If you have more than one contact card with the same first and last name, you can merge the duplicate contacts.
We hope this helps clear up your duplicates!
Best wishes.
The problem was probably due to the fact that I created a new Mac User and I was trying to sync contacts taken from previous user.
I managed to fix everything in this way:
disabled iCloud for contacts, calendars and remainders both on Mac and iPhone
deleted all contacts from iCloud.com (I had to delete a few at a time to be successful)
deleted all contacts from iPhone
deleted all contacts from Mac
with iCloud turned off both on the Mac and the iPhone, I imported all the contacts from an exported .vcf file I created beforehand, into the Contacts app on the Mac
I browsed all 3,000 contacts to check duplicates and invalid names
I then synced manually the contacts on the Mac with the iPhone via usb cable and the finder window
now I could see all the names in the apps like iMessages or WhatsApp
I switched on iCloud on the Mac and copied the contacts into the iCloud group in Contacts, but this I had to do in small batches otherwise it didn't work
wHen finished, I merged the two groups
then I switched on the iCloud contacts on the iPhone and now I have all the contacts synced automatically via the cloud service
Hello rgg_rgg,
We appreciate you letting us know! We're glad to hear you were able to get this resolved. If you need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out to us here on Apple Support Communities.
Have a lovely day!
Duplicated contacts on iCloud and iPhone
