why do contacts show up twice on iphone

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My contacts show up twice on my phone and… – Apple Community
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Question: Q: My contacts show up twice on my phone and iPad but not in icloud. My contacts appear twice on my iPhone and iPad, but only once in ICloud contacts and Outlook. If I delete one of the dupes, both entries are deleted. More Less. iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13 Posted on Apr 4, 2020 11:30 AM …

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How to Clean Up Duplicate Contacts on Your iPhone
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There are many other apps on the App Store that can do this—just open the App Store on your iPhone and search for duplicate contacts. We like Cleaner because not only are the majority of its most useful features included free of charge in the basic version, but it also runs the gamut on all of your contacts to look for any missing …

https://support.contactsplus.com/article/70-duplicates-on-iphone-ipad-and-android

Duplicates on iPhone, iPad, and Android – Contacts+ Support
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If you have recently added an additional Google/iCloud/Exchange accounts to your Contacts+ address book, and you are suddenly seeing duplicates in your native Contacts app (the address book built into your smartphone), this is likely because you have multiple sources contributing to your Contacts app.

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What are the most common causes of duplicate contacts …
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Follow Please make sure that you don’t have a Google contacts account enabled in your iPhone Settings. If you do, it can lead to duplicates as your Google contacts will essentially be added to your iPhone twice (once with a Google account in iPhone Settings, and once with this app syncing your Google contacts to another account).

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If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud …
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Make a copy of your contacts. Open Contacts. From the Card menu, select Card > Look for Duplicates. When asked, click Merge. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until no duplicates are found. Make another copy of your iCloud Contacts.

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How to Delete Duplicate Contacts on an iPhone in 4 Steps
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It’s easy to delete duplicate contacts on your iPhone through your Phone or Contacts app. Sometimes duplicate iPhone contacts occur due to iCloud errors or erroneous syncing between email accounts…

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My Phone Contacts Linked to Another iPhone, How to Stop It
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A reason why your iPhone shows contacts that you have not added is because there is another Apple device that uses the same iCloud account as you. Everything that that other user uploads to their contacts shows up on your iPhone. You are both syncing your data with the same iCloud account which is then reflected on your iOS devices. Part 2.

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Too many contacts showing up in iPhone that are not in …
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Too many contacts showing up in iPhone that are not in Outlook Contacts folder After a recent work PC upgrade to Windows 10 and Office 365 (desktop version, not Web-based), I noticed that my iPhone contacts list, which is sync’d to Outlook via iTunes, is now full of contacts from my work email messages that weren’t there before.

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iphone – Double contacts after syncing with Outlook – Ask …
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I estimate 100 of these are duplicates in the iPhone i.e in both the Contact and Phone app. They are apparently exact duplicates. The strange thing is that the duplicate ones do not get synced to Outlook so there are no duplicate contacts there.

https://www.guidingtech.com/20534/get-rid-duplicate-contacts-merge-iphone/

Getting Rid of Duplicate Contacts (& Merging Them) on iPhone
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There are also known issues when syncing contacts with iTunes via Wi-Fi. If you do so and you have duplicate contact data on your iPhone, try syncing with a USB cable once and then going back to …