If you’re on iOS, you could go for something like Cleaner (Free, €2.99 for full version) which offers a clean interface and allows you to find and merge duplicates quickly.Īlternatively, you could go for Smart Merge Pro (€2.99) or Cleanup Duplicate Contacts (Free, €0.99 for full version), which offer the same basic functionality and will clean up your address book without fuss.Ĭleaner / App Store Cleaner / App Store / App Store If both those options sound like too much work, then you could just download an app to do it for you. Google Contacts has a ‘find duplicates’ option built in so you can quickly clean up. By logging into your account, either iCloud or Google Contacts, you can delete duplicate contacts here in bulk. It’s likely that your contacts list is connected to your iCloud or Google account, depending on the platform you’re using. Choose the second number and it will be listed as one single contact in future. There tap on ‘edit’ and then ‘settings’ where you will see the merge option. On Android, go into the contacts app and select a person. Choose the other number and merge them together. Here tap edit and scroll down until you see ‘link contacts’. On iOS, go into Contacts, find the duplicate numbers and go into one of them. This will naturally be the most time-consuming, but you can either delete the extra number or link them together. If you don’t have that many duplicate contacts in your list, you could go through them and merge them manually. Sometimes that can make a list too long, but there are a number of ways in which you can fix this problem. Many of us use apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts and others, but if you’re extracting numbers from them to your contacts, then you can end up with multiple entries of the same person. THE MORE SERVICES you use, the more contacts you’re going to have.
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