Apple’s iCloud perfectly organizes all your contacts alphabetically, but sometimes things may go wrong. Even if you doesn’t use iCloud, contact management does the things perfectly. Generally, most common problem that users face is duplicate contacts. If there are few contacts then you can do them manually, but if there are lot of contacts, then removing them is not a practical solution. Fortunately, there are some apps which let you clean the duplicate contacts in few seconds.
How to delete duplicate contacts on iOS quickly
- Download Smart Merge from Apple iTunes store for free.
- Launch Smart Merge and follow the on page instructions to create a login.
- Once you granted access smart Merge will automatically start scanning your contacts.
- Now tap on Show duplicates and it will display duplicate contacts.
- Tap on Duplicate contacts and it will expand them.
- Tap on Info button located next to contacts and if you find don’t want to be deleted as duplicate; tap on deselect it.
- After selecting all the contacts that are duplicates, click on merge at it will remove or merge the duplicate contacts.
Here I recommend to review before merging or deleting the duplicates, because sometime you may have contact with same number but different number. Smart Merge also offers additional options such as contact backup and sorting the contacts and some other features which the default contacts app doesn’t have.