How do I fix duplicate contacts on my iPhone?

Question

After syncing my iPhone recently I noticed that a lot of my contacts are duplicates, and some contacts were created that I don't even have contact info for (Facebook friends whose emails and phone numbers I don't have). Is there somewhere in the settings that I can go and fix this? Not sure if it's an iPhone issue or a Facebook one so I'm lost as to where to start and I'm trying to avoid having to sit and manually go through deleting the ones that shouldn't be there.

Answer 1

Well. you can show the contacts on computer with the special software iPhone contacts manage tool. 4meida iPhone contacts transfer. http://www.iphonecontactsbackup.com/iphone-contacts-transfer.html

You can delete contacts directly from computer for your iPhone. or add new contacts to iPhone or export to computer for a backup. good luck.

Answer 2

Not sure how many contacts you have but you can give www.scrubly.com a try. Their service removes duplicates and merges entries so you only have a single entry with all of the different ways to reach them.

It has been a pretty useful service for me, I'm sitting on around 2k contacts and that is after a merge and cleanse!

Answer 3

Go to itunes and under phone settings when you sync uncheck the contacts

Answer 4

When you open the contacts list, click on the name, on the top right side, hit edit, then scroll all the way to the bottom an hit delete contact! I hope this helped.

First!!

Answer 5

yeah iOS is annoying. To delete contacts OR events, you have to connect your phone to iTunes and do all these weird steps. Google the steps I can't remember.