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How To Remove Duplicate Contacts On Samsung Galaxy Note 5

How To Remove Duplicate Contacts On Samsung Galaxy Note 5

If you’ve recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and have imported your SIM card contacts, you could now have duplicate contact phone numbers on your Note 5. The good news is that you can easily remove the same contacts on your Galaxy Note 5. It’ll only take a few steps to premaritally delete duplicate contacts on your Samsung Galaxy Note 5. This method will help you avoid spending extra money on apps that claim they can clean up your contact list. The following is a guide on how to find, merge and delete duplicate contacts on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

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The main reason that your Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has duplicate contacts is because when you connect multiple email accounts to the Note 5, all contacts get saved on the phone, which causes duplicate contacts to be created. Instead of deleting each contact manually to fix the problem, you’ll want to merge the two, which keeps the contact in your work email address book and also in your personal email address book.
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Clean Up Galaxy Note 5 Contacts FastYou can also use the built-in clean up contacts tool on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Here’s how to identify similar contacts on these devices to merge and clean up your contacts.
  1. Turn on the Samsung Note 5.
  2. Go to the Contacts app.
  3. Select on the three menu dots in the upper right area of the screen.
  4. Tap on Link Contacts.

 

After you have selected on Link Contacts, you’ll see a list where you can sort by name, phone number or email address to find duplicate contacts. You can tap on the contacts to link them. After that has been selected for the ones you want to merge, select Done and then you have removed duplicated contacts on Samsung Note 5.

 

How to Remove Duplicate Contacts on Galaxy Note 5

You can find, merge and delete contacts right from your Note 5 without the need to use a computer. If your contacts are really messed up, you may want to go into Gmail and edit your contacts from there. Here’s how to remove duplicate contacts on the Galaxy Note 5:

  1. Turn on the Samsung Note 5.
  2. Go to the Contacts app
  3. Browse your contacts until you find the contacts you want to merge or link.
  4. Select on the first contact you need to merge.
  5. Look for the spot where it says, Connected via. Select on the link icon to the right.
  6. Then select Link another Contact.
  7. Select the contacts to link and then tap back.

 

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