An update or two ago, all of my contacts were made dupliate, triplicate, or quadruplicate. I mean the *exact* same contact. When I go to my contacts app and look for duplicates it only recognized five. However every contact I have is at least duplicate.
iPhone 13, iOS 18
You may have stored the same contacts in multiple email accounts.
Either remove the contacts from the rarely used email account or disable contacts from the rarely used mail account in the iOS Mail app.
Unlike some Android devices, contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other
You may have stored the same contacts in multiple email accounts.
Either remove the contacts from the rarely used email account or disable contacts from the rarely used mail account in the iOS Mail app.
Unlike some Android devices, contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other
This may help --> Contacts Merge Option by Apple on X
Contacts in duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate after update, not recognized by "duplicates,"
