我喜欢我的 iPhone，我也喜欢 iCloud，但我讨厌的是我有大量重复的联系人！这是为什么？嗯，这是因为我在多部 iPhone 和 iPad 上使用同一个 iCloud 帐户。我妻子的 iPhone 和我姐姐的所有联系人都被合并到一个巨大的列表中，并且有一堆重复的。
另一个令人讨厌的事情是重复的内容略有不同。例如，我有一个联系人Vineet，然后另一个叫Vineet R，另一个叫Vineet Rohatgi！一个有号码，一个有电子邮件，最后一个有地址。所以不是完全重复，但仍然是所有相同的联系信息。
在本文中，我将介绍几种解决重复联系人问题的方法以及如何将它们合并在一起。在解决方案方面，我发现了很多可以删除完全重复的地方，但是找到一种方法来合并可能具有不同名称但具有相同电话号码或电子邮件地址的联系人需要更长的时间。
方法 1 – Mac 地址簿
如果您有一台 Mac(Mac)并且将您的地址簿设置为与 iCloud 同步，您可以使用它来删除完全重复的内容。Mac上的地址簿(Address Book)应用程序不会自行进行任何类型的合并，它只会查找具有完全相同名称的联系人，然后将这两个联系人合并在一起。
打开您的通讯录(Address Book)，然后单击iCloud下的所有联系人(All Contacts)。您应该在右侧看到所有 iCloud 联系人。
接下来，单击Card，然后单击Look for duplicates。
如果通讯簿(Address Book)发现任何重复项，它会询问您是否要将它们合并在一起。如果它没有找到任何重复项，那是因为没有同名的联系人。请记住(Remember)，它不会查看任何其他字段，例如电话号码或电子邮件地址。如果您碰巧有很多相同副本的联系人，它是一个简单的重复查找器并且很有用。
方法 2 – 智能合并应用程序
第二种方法，也是迄今为止更有用的删除重复联系人的方法是使用可以下载到 iPhone 的应用程序，称为Smart Merge Duplicate Contacts。这是 99 美分，但它完全物有所值。它通过查找所有可能合并的联系人，然后让我编辑新合并联系人的任何特定详细信息，为我节省了大量时间。
该应用程序基本上可以向您显示重复的联系人（同名）、重复的电话号码、重复的电子邮件地址、没有姓名的联系人、没有电话号码的联系人和没有电子邮件的联系人。这是您第一次运行它时的样子：
例如，如果您点击Duplicate Phones，您将看到按相同电话号码分组的联系人列表。
然后点击任何一组重复项。不要点击“所有重复的电话”，因为这会将所有重复的电话合并到一个联系人中，这是您不想这样做的。您只想使用重复的对。例如，我点击上面第一个以 469 开头的数字。
现在您必须点击“合并(Merge)”按钮，它是指向屏幕底部中心的向下箭头。您将看到一个弹出屏幕，询问您要如何合并：
您可以同时编辑它们或强制合并(Force Merge)联系人。我个人发现强制合并更好。继续并点击该按钮。然后，您将收到另一个警告，表明这样做会将 2 个联系人转换为一个。
继续并点击强制合并 2 个(Force Merge 2) 联系人(Contacts)按钮。
现在你会看到另一个屏幕，最左边有一个大的空圆圈，最右边有一个蓝色箭头。在我们进行合并之前，我们将检查最终联系人以确保它是正确的。继续并点击蓝色箭头。
现在您可以看到两个单独的联系人中包含哪些信息以及新合并的联系人的外观。到目前为止，我发现该应用程序的唯一问题是它喜欢自动选择名称较短的联系人。如上所示，它没有选择Anurag Bhushan作为新联系人，而是选择了Anurag。一切都(Everything)被合并得很好。要解决此问题，您必须点击新联系人，然后您会在右上角看到一个编辑按钮。(Edit)
继续并修复名称或您想要的任何其他内容，然后返回。返回合并(Merge)屏幕，然后点击空圆圈使其变为红色复选标记。
最后，单击“合并(Merge)”按钮，它将创建新联系人并删除旧联系人！这是相当多的步骤，但它比手动尝试自己做所有这些事情要容易得多。另外，一旦你做了一两次，之后它真的很快。使用这个漂亮的小应用程序，我能够删除 60 多个重复的联系人。您使用什么方法删除 iPhone 上的重复联系人或合并联系人？让我们在评论中知道。享受！
Remove Duplicate Contacts on iPhone
I love my iPhone and I also like iCloud, but what I hate is that I have a ton of duplicate contacts! Why is that? Well, it’s because I use the sаme iCloud account on multiple iPhones and iPads. All the contacts from my wife’s iPhone and my sister’s havе been merged into on giant list and there were a bunch of duplicates.
The other annoying thing was that the duplicates were slightly different. For example, I had a contact Vineet and then another one called Vineet R and another called Vineet Rohatgi! One had a number, one had an email and the last one had an address. So not exact duplicates, but still all the same contact info.
In this article, I’ll go through a couple of ways you can solve the problem of duplicate contacts and how to merge them together. In terms of solutions, I found a lot where you could delete exact duplicates, but it took a little bit longer to find a way to merge contacts that might have different names, but had identical phone numbers or email addresses.
Method 1 – Mac Address Book
If you have a Mac and have your address book setup to sync with iCloud, you can use it to remove exact duplicates. The Address Book app on the Mac will not do any kind of merging on it’s own, it will only find contacts with the exact same name and then merge those two together.
Open your Address Book and then click on All Contacts under iCloud. You should see all your iCloud contacts on the right hand side.
Next, click on Card and then Look for duplicates.
If the Address Book finds any duplicates, it will ask you if you want to merge them together. If it doesn’t find any duplicates it’s because there were not contacts with the exact same name. Remember, it won’t look at any other field like phone number or email address. It’s a simple duplicate finder and useful if you happen to have a lot of contacts that are identical copies.
Method 2 – Smart Merge App
The second method and by far the more useful way to remove duplicated contacts is to use an app that you can download to your iPhone called Smart Merge Duplicate Contacts. It’s 99 cents, but it’s totally worth the money. It saved me a ton of time by finding all possible contacts that could be merged and then letting me edit any specific details for the new merged contact.
The app can basically show you duplicate contacts (same name), duplicate phone numbers, duplicate email addresses, contacts with no name, contacts with no phone number and contacts with no email. Here’s what it looks like when you first run it:
If you tap on Duplicate Phones, for example, you’ll see a list of contacts grouped by the same phone number.
Then tap of any set of duplicates. Don’t tap on the “All Duplicate Phones” because that will merge all of your duplicates into one contact, which you don’t want to do. You want to work with just the pairs that are duplicated. For example, I clicked on the first one above starting with 469 as the number.
Now you have to tap on the Merge button, which is the arrow pointing down at the bottom center of the screen. You’ll get a popup screen asking you how you want to merge:
You can either edit them at the same time or Force Merge the contacts. I personally have found that force merging is better. Go ahead and tap on that button. You’ll then get another warning that doing so will convert 2 contacts into one.
Go ahead and tap on the Force Merge 2 Contacts button.
Now you’ll see another screen with a big empty circle on the far left and a blue arrow on the far right. Before we do the merge, we’ll check the final contact to make sure it’s correct. Go ahead and tap the blue arrow.
Now you can see what information is inside the two separate contacts and how the new merged contact will look. The only problem I have found with the app so far is that it likes to automatically choose the contact with the shorter name. So as you can see above, instead of choosing Anurag Bhushan as the new contact, it chose Anurag. Everything gets merged just fine. To fix this issue, you have to tap on the new contact and then you’ll see an Edit button at the top right.
Go ahead and fix the name or whatever else you want and then go back. Go back to the Merge screen and then tap the empty circle to make it into a red checkmark.
Finally, click on the Merge button and it will create the new contact and delete the older ones! It’s quite a few steps, but it’s a lot easier than manually trying to do all that stuff on your own. Plus, once you do it once or twice, it’s really fast after that. I was able to remove over 60 duplicate contacts using this nifty little app. What method have you used to remove duplicates or merge contacts on your iPhone? Let us know in the comments. Enjoy!
