How To Remove Duplicate Contacts On Apple iPhone X

Having multiple contacts of the same person can be a bit confusing and is a waste of space on your contact list on your iPhone X. Removing said duplicates will not only lead to a more organized contact list, you will no longer have to guess if the contact you are choosing is the same ones you are intending to contact on your phone. This is going to save you from a lot of awkward replies or calls. It will only take a few quick and easy steps to remove duplicate contacts on the iPhone X, you won’t even break a sweat.

If you are wondering on how those duplicate contacts got there in the first place, that is caused when you have multiple email accounts on your iPhone X and all the contacts from each of them get stored on your contact list. And if the contact list on each email account are more or less the same, then you are going to get a lot of duplicate contacts on your address book. The steps given below should fix that right up for you so as not to have the same contacts of of just one single person or persons.

Clean Up iPhone X Contacts Fast

You can use the default clean up contacts tool on the Apple Mac OS software. Here’s how to identify similar contacts on these devices to merge and clean up your contacts.

Make a copy of your contacts
Go to Contacts
While on the Card menu, select Card then Look for Duplicates
When asked, press Merge
Repeat steps 2 and 3 until no duplicates are found
Make another copy of your iCloud Contacts

How to Remove Duplicate Contacts on iPhone X

You can find, merge and delete contacts right from your iPhone X without the need to have a computer around. Here are the steps on how to remove duplicate contacts on the iPhone X

Check to see if your iPhone X is turned on
Go to the Contacts, through the Phone app
Look through your contacts until you find the contacts you want to merge or link
Press the first contact you need to merge
Press Edit
Press Link Contacts
Select the contacts to link and then press Link
Finally press Done