Linked Cards - "Unified" and "Unknown"

This is awesome! Thanks for the fix!! This worked very well for me. In my case, duplicate contacts in Viber were what prompted me to seek this solution. And your procedure worked like a charm.

For other viber users who are trying to solve this same problem, note that once I started iCloud contacts syncing again and saw all my contacts show up in the native address book, re-starting Viber did not solve the issue. I had to delete Viber and re-install it from the app store before it solved the issue once and for all.

LINKED CONTACTS ARE TWO OR MORE CONTACTS COMBINE TOGETHER, TO MAKE LIFE EASIER WITH HANDLING MANY SAME CONTACTS

UNKNOWN/INFO IS A SINGLE CONTACTS.

I have the solution for this, so please full attention here to get it correctly. I found the steps from the iOS 6 manual.

Link a contact: Edit a contact, tap Edit, then tap and choose the contact entry to link to.

Linked contacts aren’t merged. If you change or add information in a unified contact, the

changes are copied to each source account where that information already exists.

If you link contacts with different first or last names, the names on the individual cards won’t

change, but only one name appears on the unified card. To choose which name appears when

you view the unified card, tap the linked card with the name you prefer, then tap Use This Name

For Unified Card.

View contact information from a source account: Tap one of the source accounts.

Unlink a contact: Tap Edit, tap , then tap Unlink

First Step: Edit contacts

Second Step: Scroll down & Click + symbol

Third Step: Click linked contacts (choose your contact that you want to be linked if the contact you are in)

Fourth Step: Click done

Fifth Step: Go to LINKED CONTACTS

Sixth Step: Choose your prefer name ex. Facebook: Taylor Rocker

iCould: Taylor Swift

Seven Step: EXAMPLE: I choose iCould to be my prefer name.

Click on iCould: Taylor Swift
There will be a new button appear which is "Use This Name For Unified Card"

FYI: IF FACEBOOK NAME AND ICOULD NAME ARE THE SAME OR A BIT DIFFERENT, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE WHICH NAME YOU WANT TO BE APPEAR.

Multidelete worked perfect. I had linked contacts for all my contacts. One was unknown, one from icloud. I shut off my icloud sync, ran this app. it found 288 contacts still on my ipad even though contacts listed none. Once deleted, turned back on my icloud sync, no more duplicated contacts. Sweet.

Thanks

jmartin724, have you managed to solve this "linked" card issue?

I spent over 2 hours on phone with Apple Support - no solution! Found your recommendation, and voila! Success! Thank you so much!

Yep, have to say I thought this was a sales pitch by the app maker, but this worked instantly.

To unlock it for me? Intake.