Removing Duplicate Contacts On Samsung Galaxy Note 8

Owners of Samsung Galaxy Note 8 that imported their SIM contacts sometimes have duplicate contact on their smartphone. There is an easy way to remove this from your Samsung Galaxy Note 8. This process below will assist you, and you won’t have to buy an app from Google Play Store to clean up your contacts. You can make use of the instructions below to set up, edit and delete duplicate contacts on Note 8.

The reason for this issue is because when you have more than one email account connected to your Note 8, your smartphone automatically saves all your contacts, which results in having duplicate contacts on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8. You can start deleting each contact, but that will take time and energy especially if you have a lot of contacts. Instead of that, you can merge the two contacts, which means one will be saved in your work email address and the other will be saved in your email address book.

Removing Duplicate Contacts on Galaxy Note 8

You do not need to use a PC to search, merge and remove duplicate contacts on your Note 8. You can make use of your Gmail to clean up your contacts. Follow the instructions below on how to remove duplicate contacts.

1. Switch on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8
2. Locate the Contacts app
3. Search your contacts for the contact you want to merge or connect.
4. First, click on the contact you want to merge.
5. Search for ‘Connected via,’ click on the connect icon located at the right.
6. Then Click on Link another Contact.
7. Click on the contacts to link and then click to return.

How to quickly Clean Up your Note 8 Contacts.

There is a preinstalled clean up contacts program on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 that you can use to easily clean up your contacts. Follow this guide to spot duplicate contacts and to clean it up quickly.

1. Switch on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8
2. Locate the Contacts app
3. Tap the three dots menu located in the upper right of your screen.
4. Click on ‘Link Contacts.’

After you’ve done this, a list will come up where you can search for name, number and email address to spot duplicate contacts. You can select the contacts found to link them together. After you’ve spotted the ones, you want to merge, click on ‘Done’ and you won’t have duplicate contacts on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 anymore.